When do you think you will next play golf?

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Spoke to my mate who is on the county and he's not heard or seen anything coming through "official channels" to suggest that 11th May is/has been agreed. Will have to see but his words were "nonsense".

Maybe you heard from a better/more informed source and its still to be filtered down? At present I'm not convinced we will see anything happening.

I don’t know how to post a link but if you look at bunkered website you will see that bbcs golf correspondent Iain Carter and golf writer Alister Tait have both tweeted that they have heard May 11th is the start. Make of that what you will.
 
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If I get sick, it won't be because of playing golf. Going to the store is a zillion times more dangerous. As someone else mentioned....people are lined up outside (Asda in our case) and behaving themselves.....then they enter and turn into (what my wife says....) Giant Haystacks. Being American I'm not familiar with that person, but we had our own bad guy wrestlers...Dutch Savage (not Doc Savage) when I was young.
 

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Lots of courses have the ability for non members to book online, plus the various tee time sites where you also can pay in advance.

Although we are on BRS and non-members can book tee-times using that, we have been told that it will be members only at first until the effects of any restriction on numbers can be assessed.
 

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Very true.

Sometimes I just need to step away. On this occasion I shall.

Recent message from our head green keeper.

With the Greenkeeping team currently split into two groups, one half being furloughed, the main priority is keeping on top of the mowing of all surfaces in readiness for when the course is able to reopen for play once again.

With the vigorous growth we are currently experiencing, this obviously dominates the working week with all available hands engaged on mowing machines.

Essential tasks such as feeding, and watering are included in the maintenance programme. We have also found the time to carry out another tining of the greens and approaches together with a heavy top dressing.

The height of cut on the putting surfaces remains at 5mm as we have no need at present to take this down any lower. However, once a resumption date is known the height will be reduced quite rapidly so that we can present the putting surfaces for members in first class condition.
 
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A few pictures of pretty, striped fairways seem sufficient to convince some people that their courses are going to resemble Augusta post lockdown.

What the course is actually like and what it looks like in a photo taken from a distance may well be two entirely different things.
 

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I dont think they have to sell it well
The fact that courses would be open would be enough for most I'm sure.
Why would they be rougher? Looks to me like most courses I see pictures of are ready to go
And it really doesn't take long to cut 18 greens a couple of mm shorter.....
All photos look like Augusta from a distance.
Had a stroll to my club today and walked the course.
Talking to GK he said “course will take 7 days to get to Social golf but 10 days to comp standard.
You can only reduce the height of cut gradually.
The course looked like it hadn’t been cut for three days but had been done yesterday.
It won’t be a problem anywhere except the greens will be slow until they have time to lower the mowers.
He said growth had shot up in the last two weeks and must say some of the rough looked brutal.
Bunker on the 3rd hole had a sand castle in it again.
Must be a good picnic spot.
 

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Although we are on BRS and non-members can book tee-times using that, we have been told that it will be members only at first until the effects of any restriction on numbers can be assessed.
This is the correct action imo.
With so many people furloughed and not working there won’t be many empty tee times .
Especially if it’s two balls.
Some members might not get on.
I would not be happy if I can’t play and they let visitors on, after paying my fees and not being able to play.
 

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Longer cut, slower greens?
Great, give me a chance to go old school with a more lofted putter, be like playing from the days before Augusta Syndrome took over.
 

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A few pictures of pretty, striped fairways seem sufficient to convince some people that their courses are going to resemble Augusta post lockdown.

What the course is actually like and what it looks like in a photo taken from a distance may well be two entirely different things.
If the picture is taken from a height, distance, drone etc then I'd agree. When you are seeing multiple pictures, of various parts of the course, including the greens then you get a better idea. I, and others, are not claiming they will be ready tomorrow, but there seems enough evidence that some clubs are closer to ready than perhaps people may have expected.
 

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If the picture is taken from a height, distance, drone etc then I'd agree. When you are seeing multiple pictures, of various parts of the course, including the greens then you get a better idea. I, and others, are not claiming they will be ready tomorrow, but there seems enough evidence that some clubs are closer to ready than perhaps people may have expected.
Photos are very misleading.
Normally when you see stripes on grass it’s because it’s been flattened down looks good but might be quite long.
The only way to asses a green is stand on it.
General play no problem , but it will take a while to get to comp standard.
Any standard will be good atm ,as we are all stir crazy.
 

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Longer cut, slower greens?
Great, give me a chance to go old school with a more lofted putter, be like playing from the days before Augusta Syndrome took over.
What was the loft on the older putters?
I like watching the old black and white films of a proper pop stroke.
It’s how hard they hit it for a short putt.
 

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Our place is looking good, they’ve been concentrating on the cutting and ignored the bunkers. They had time this week to start fluffing the bunkers up again. Can’t wait to get out there now
 

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