winter green scoring modifications

[goldenbare]

Can people give details if any modifications to putting scores are made when putting on temporary winter greens (i.e. max number of putts) by their clubs if they are not fortunate as mine isn’t to have large greens with a reasonable front apron to use to make a reasonable putting surface.
I am currently at loggerheads with club officials to make a reasonable decision on our holes in the fairway close to the green, I won’t call them temporary greens.

 

[SammmeBee]

My putting is bad enough on normal greens but find that temporary greens do add a few more to the normal total....when it goes in I stop counting though.....

 

[CliveW]

Can people give details if any modifications to putting scores are made when putting on temporary winter greens (i.e. max number of putts)

Surely if everyone is putting on the same greens there is no difference?
I don't understand why there are so many questions about winter conditions. It is the same for everyone.

 

[jammydodger]

No conditions by our club so when we play our friendlies we just say anything within a normal putters length is given. Saves time and a lot of messing about marking and remarking in the cold

 

[chrisd]

No conditions by our club so when we play our friendlies we just say anything within a normal putters length is given. Saves time and a lot of messing about marking and remarking in the cold

Any chance of a game!

My playing partner uses a broom handle putter - we would barely need to be on the green for a gimee!

Chris

 

[viscount17]

rules on temporary greens are;
if hole is normal size - pick-up within (I think) 1 ft for 1 shot
if larger than normal - putt out

 

[CliveW]

rules on temporary greens are;
if hole is normal size - pick-up within (I think) 1 ft for 1 shot
if larger than normal - putt out

Whose rules are those? Certainly not R & A.

 

[freddielong]

rules on temporary greens are;
if hole is normal size - pick-up within (I think) 1 ft for 1 shot
if larger than normal - putt out

Ha ha laughing at that will keep me warm all the way home

 

[Dodger]

Is thread actually serious??

I read it this morning and thought I would let it run and see where it goes but surely this cannot be what actually happens in clubs up and down the country is it??!!

 

[USER1999]

I have found it wierd too.

As you can't have more than 3 temporary greens or it can't be h/cap qualifying, and the holes have to be standard size, what's the problem.

If they are double buckets, then it isn't qualifying, so do what you want in your swindle etc. If it's match play it's down to your opponents to give it.

If it's qualifying, you have to putt out. Like normal.

Don't really understand the question?

 

[viscount17]

rules on temporary greens are;
if hole is normal size - pick-up within (I think) 1 ft for 1 shot
if larger than normal - putt out

Whose rules are those? Certainly not R & A.

it's how our club does it but as both of our temps are buckets they are all non-qualifiers.
they also have a pick-up rule for frost on proper greens.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Not sure I really understood it either. If we play comps and we're on temps then its a non-qualifier and you hole out as normal. If it's a social round then a few gimmes is fine but our weekend roll up is usually a stableford and so I doubt they'd give you any opportunity not to hole out. It's a tough old school but and the banter is fierce so get a bobbly short one and miss it and be prepared to be ripped back in the 19th!

 

[DCB]

In all my year of playing I've never come across a 'bucket' hole or heard of any local arrangement for not putting on a winter green.

I echo Dodgers words...'is this for real'

 

[USER1999]

Bucket holes are not uncommon down south. It is a metal hole, twice the normal size, and normally full of foul smelling stagnant water, hence the desire not to putt out if at all possible.

 

[jammydodger]

Dont see why people are getting a little neurotic about it. We dont have winter comps so temp greens is irrelevant for us. If its a winter pairs then its up to the pairs involved who gets given what. We give short putts in our group when we play our morning friendlies , nothing weird about that I dont think.

Ive seen bucket holes before and from what I can gather its a chip-in bonanza.

 

[Smiffy]

I had my best ever round (4 over gross) at Poult Wood. 18 bucket holes. Loved it.

 

[goldenbare]

Thanks for the comments gents, slightly surprised that some people don’t seem to mind the embarrassment of the possibility of a 5 putt from 10 feet. It appears our Gaelic friends are made of sterner stuff than the bucket lovers of the South.

 

[DCB]

slightly surprised that some people don’t seem to mind the embarrassment of the possibility of a 5 putt from 10 feet.

That's part of the alure of winter golf. How many times do you get the chance of that on a balmy summer evening on a perfect green

 

[goldenbare]

slightly surprised that some people don’t seem to mind the embarrassment of the possibility of a 5 putt from 10 feet.

That's part of the alure of winter golf. How many times do you get the chance of that on a balmy summer evening on a perfect green

DCB,some of my favourite golf memories were on the numerous unsung courses around Edinburgh on my afternoons off from the Tattoo Never noted much balminess even in August sometimes though

 

[viscount17]

a minor point in the clubs defence; we have such a high water table that even in summer a couple of holes can hold water. come the winter and it's almost all of them