Winter Greens- Just hateful...

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Teeshot

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Just returned from my first experience of winter greens- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Glad to get that out of my system- phew!
Now, why do they do winter greens? I ask, because if it's for the reason I'm thinking (i.e. frozen solid) then surely the temp greens will be solid too?! The front 9 were unplayable really, after the first 3 holes I just chipped within a few feet and didn't bother getting the putter out of the bag- there were so many frozen divots and spike marks on the temps it was like trying to putt on a pebble beach or something...

The back 9, well I couldn't see a problem with any of them- I even walked on them to see the condition and they were, if anything better (less frozen) than the temps.
I lost loads of balls too, many when I'd managed to pitch them onto the temps only to see them bounce about 15ft in the air and disappear into the rough!

I shall await better weather before next venturing out!

Weird thing was, I stopped scoring after first 3 holes (I wan't doing badly but thought as I was on my own it was a bit of a waste of time keeping tally) but then further round I kept realising, say on a par 4 I'd made the temp in 3 shots etc! Maybe I should have scored it after all- ah well- heres to warmer weather.
 
With the predictions of the coldest febuary on record, I think that will be having more rounds with frozen temps.
 
You have to treat condictions like this as just practice and a chance to get out of the house (and usually in the 19th after 9 holes) and some excercise.

I played last Friday and they where fine, played the next morning and they where like concrete, not too sure what tomorrow will bring but I think me and the wife might just practice and end up in the clubhouse for the afternoon.
 
I don't understand complaints about temps, if you don't want to play on them stay in the bar. If you do then golf is about getting the ball in the hole in the fewest amount of shots. If the temps are frozen solid, don't try to pitch the ball on them.

Or get yourself a Wii and you can play Pebble Beach in your Y fronts with a cup of tea to hand. :D
 
Or get yourself a Wii and you can play Pebble Beach in your Y fronts with a cup of tea to hand. :D
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That's what im doing but on my PS2 and in my PJ`s

Temps are crap, you cant putt on them and get no spin but just treat it like target practise and pick up your ball.
 
I just try to see it as a necessary evil in order to protect the main greens from damage before the start of the new season.

Winter greens ARE bloody awful though. Some of them are like trying to putt on a ploughed field!
 
If you are playing at this time of year most courses will be on temps, they dont have a choice but you do.
I just don't play if we are on temps, much butter to spend some time hitting balls at the range.

There are some places around me that never use temps, I played at Scotscraig on the 2nd of January and they were on the full course, there was very little ground frost but the fairways and greens were rock hard until the sun broke through and softened them up a little, still had a great time as I hadn't played for weeks.
 
Care of greens and fairways is part of golf as are winter greens, if you love the game and like to play in winter then you just have to accept it and see it as another challenge. I know some winter greens are awful and perhaps just a little more effort could be made with them, but it is a seasonal thing and benefits everyones golf come the better weather where you get to play a decent course. I have seen some courses ruined due to over use due to demands of members or neglect of green staff, its better in the long run to close greens as early as poss in bad weather.
 
Thanks for the replies- I wasn't implying they shouldn't have them, I was just curious as to why...
If it is to save them for the better months then I think it is a good thing, and as such treat today (and tomorrow) as training days- god knows I need them.
Some of them were just a joke though- one must have measured 3ft across!
 
Teeshot

I take it you have read the previous posts about winter greens this week. Some good info in them as to why we have temps in periods of frosty weather like we have had the past two weeks. :cool:
 
I was walking through the Clubhouse the other day and said to the Secretary "Bloody hell, the greens are hard" to which he replied "Aye, and the Carrots were undercooked too"
:( :(
 
I played with HTL last week and on our 3rd I misjudged the temp green and the ball bounced on the frozen proper green shot off like a bullet from a gun and was never seen again.

As has been agreed by most on here winter greens a re a necessary evil at this time of year and given the cold snap (coldest since Jan 93 so we have had it too good for too long). Get out, play and don't beat yourself up too much about your putting or score. Look at it as a pre-season friendly (in football terms) for when the warmer and lighter days come in March/April
 
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