Winter v summer courses.Help me to understand.

[Tashyboy]

Me, my best score in the summer, 2 X 88.
Me, my best score in the winter, 90.

Summer, ball flys further, hits ground and runs further, weather is far far better.

Winter, ball flys less, and runs even less, it blows a gale and bladders it down. That's if your course is open. Yes tees are further forward, but at times not far enough forward.

So, why do some courses have Qualifying comps, others don't. Some people play out of there skins in winter but struggle in summer and visa versa.

its one part of coming back to golf I have never understood.

 

[Leereed]

I always seem to find form just at the end of summer.i have been pulled to 10 over the winter. Shot a net 63,65,65,64 so I got chopped. It's pro's and cons, tee forward no rough trees bare and greens soft.lift and place.At ours in the summer the rough is deep and tees as far back as possible.

 

[louise_a]

I always seem to find form just at the end of summer.i have been pulled to 10 over the winter. Shot a net 63,65,65,64 so I got chopped. It's pro's and cons, tee forward no rough trees bare and greens soft.lift and place.At ours in the summer the rough is deep and tees as far back as possible.

That pretty much covers it.

 

[Imurg]

In winter, with softer greens, you can fire at the pin and be fairly confident the ball is going to stick
In summer it may not...
Fairways are firmer in Summer somthe ball rolls further -- into trouble!
Rough tends to be lower in winter
Things kind of even out over the year...

 

[Tashyboy]

As Imurg says, things tend to even out over the year, but I have read on here that after some good rounds shot, players can expect a healthy hcap cut, (which I totally agree with). Some courses have Q comps and others don't. Why is that ?
one of the lads I was playing with the other day commented. Even with pick and place our course is still longer and tougher than X course near us in the summer.

 

[Smiffy]

Last time I played was 1st November.
Qualifier at the club, 1st comp of the year off the yellow tees and there was hardly a breath of wind, (which is unusual for Cooden).
I honestly thought I was going to blitz it.
Highest score in that day was 38, I was expecting it to be well over 40.
My 22 points was a kick in the face I can tell you.....

 

[Deleted member 15344]

As Imurg says, things tend to even out over the year, but I have read on here that after some good rounds shot, players can expect a healthy hcap cut, (which I totally agree with). Some courses have Q comps and others don't. Why is that ?
one of the lads I was playing with the other day commented. Even with pick and place our course is still longer and tougher than X course near us in the summer.

A lot of courses don't have qualifying comps during the winter because the course they are playing is shorter than the measured course making any comp non qualifying

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Two slightly different beasts. In winter you need to find the fairway and take advantage of pick and place. You can shoot into greens
In the summer it plays shorter, if tighter with longer rough. The ground is dryer and so you tend to get better lies, especially around the greens and the greens tend to be smoother

 

[patricks148]

i can regularly shoot scores in the 60's gross in winter, but i would have to play seriously well to do that in summer. much easier course par 71 /sss 73 in summer. par 69 /sss of 67 in winter.

that tells the story of why just with the sss