Laka
Head Pro
recover best after flooding........Is it park, heath, moor or links courses that recover best after flooding ?? without mankind interfere in the recover process...
Which type of course will.......
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Main Problem with Links courses is if they get flooded it's with sea water that kills grass and other veg
pokerjoke
Money List Winner
Our course[parkland] is near a stream,at this moment in time it is flooded in places.
Last week it was 2ft underwater near the 18th and 1st holes.
This week as im writing all that water is gone,however it wont take much to bring
it back to those levels.
Holes 5+6 have been closed,and are still closed due to flooding.
In the summer the course was so hard,with deep cracks everywhere you thought it would
never recover.
Courses have an amazing ability to recover,however a links course will imo recover a lot quicker than parkland.
Last week it was 2ft underwater near the 18th and 1st holes.
This week as im writing all that water is gone,however it wont take much to bring
it back to those levels.
Holes 5+6 have been closed,and are still closed due to flooding.
In the summer the course was so hard,with deep cracks everywhere you thought it would
never recover.
Courses have an amazing ability to recover,however a links course will imo recover a lot quicker than parkland.
El Bandito
Q-School Graduate
Links I believe usually comes back pretty quick. My place, downland built on chalk drains incredibly well and is still open despite day upon day of deluge.
Laka
Head Pro
saltwater is probably difficult for the turf to cope with,,,will the grass on greens and fairways die out totally if flooded by salted seawater?
Foxholer
Blackballed
Links is normally pretty good, as is heathland (both tend to be sandy soils) and chalk.
Clay - that describes much of the London/South East area - is undoubtably the worst!
Clay - that describes much of the London/South East area - is undoubtably the worst!
Laka
Head Pro
yes i share those thoughts--- my course is on clay and it is very soft now and when there is heavy rain it is a lot of water pools all over the place--- the club do a lot of work with drainage-----clay is the typical soil in this part
Laka
Head Pro
sounds like that soil giving you a quality course to play on all year round
Tommo21
Tour Winner
Played a Near Year comp at Royal Musselburgh last Thursday and we were luck to even play...soft as ////
Played down the coast at Winterfield GC dunbar yesterday, only 20 miles away from the royal, and you wouldn't know we've had bad weather.
A world apart.
Played down the coast at Winterfield GC dunbar yesterday, only 20 miles away from the royal, and you wouldn't know we've had bad weather.
A world apart.
Wayman
Tour Winner
Links will be dried quicker
Andy808
Tour Winner
Our course is a parkland course which is pretty well drained apart from a couple of places that get very wet but they will dry out with about 4 days dry weather. The only major problem is around the 5th green which is down by the irrigation lake and can take a bit longer to dry out than the rest of the course.
rosecott
Money List Winner
Our course is heathland which drains extremely well and will be fully playable 15 minutes after a torrential downpour.
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There are a few around here like this. My old club Hockley, Royal Winchester, South Winchester....all built on chalk and drain incredibly well.
SteveBonners
Assistant Pro
In my part of the world, most courses are built on clay which is not known for it's draining properties!! Although we have not had as much rain as some western pars of the country, it has a few holes which have become unplayable. However being a proprietary club it has remained open when perhaps it should have been closed.
Always enjoy travelling to Thorpeness on the Suffolk coast, where even in winter you can walk off without any mud on your shoes.
Always enjoy travelling to Thorpeness on the Suffolk coast, where even in winter you can walk off without any mud on your shoes.
daymond
Tour Rookie
Our's is on downland, it's not called Kingsdown for nothing, and has the advantage of being on 300ft of limestone. The fairways never get sodden although a few greens are suffering of late.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
We're built on clay although to be fair it use to me farmland so the drainage seems reasonable on most parts. The problem is 12, 14, 15 and 16 are the lowest point and so all the water runs towards these holes and there simply isn't anywhere for it to run. The club were suppose to be looking at drainage problems as we lost a lot of days last year of having the full course shut (although the front 9 is still open) but nothing has happened. It has to be addressed soon as it's a big issue now although I doubt the answer will be as simple as adding more ditches. They have to flow somewhere.
