No, this isn't spam promoting the latest slasher flick, but an observation on the sad state of greens these days and what happens when course superintendants measure their worth on their stimpmeters. I was playing a basic public course last week, and found myself confronted with a green where it was virtually impossible to hole out. This green has a signficant slope back to front, and is always a bit tricky to putt downhill, but on that day no putt would stop within 40 feet of the hole. Anything you roled up the slope that didn't find the hole would come back to you. My partner and I putted 2 or 3 at it before picking up. My guess is that the odds of even a tour pro making a 40 footer are no better than 1 in 10, and for us it's probably more like 1 in 50. The trouble is of course the green is cut too short to hold the slope. Now I can see how that happens in the US open when they are deliberately trying to make it as hard as possible and go a little over the edge, but again, we are talking about a $20/.round public course in April, where the greens aren't being cut as close as they are in mid season and are still full of dimples from last fall's aeration. What's this thing going to put like in July?
"warren montgomery" <wamontgomery@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:cfmdnfvvl8FR5uvfRVn-uQ@comcast.com...> No, this isn't spam promoting the latest slasher flick, but an observation> on the sad state of greens these days and what happens when course> superintendants measure their worth on their stimpmeters. I was playing a> basic public course last week, and found myself confronted with a green> where it was virtually impossible to hole out. This green has a signficant> slope back to front, and is always a bit tricky to putt downhill, but on> that day no putt would stop within 40 feet of the hole. Anything you roled> up the slope that didn't find the hole would come back to you. My partner> and I putted 2 or 3 at it before picking up. My guess is that the odds of> even a tour pro making a 40 footer are no better than 1 in 10, and for us> it's probably more like 1 in 50. The trouble is of course the green is cut
Under those conditions you are better off following the ball to the hole, and before it can roll back away from the hole tap the moving ball in.
Do you really think the superintendent wants fast greens? They are very difficult and expensive to maintain and can go bad in a wink. This early in the year, it has to be an unfortunate combination of circumstances possibility including dry weather and the irrigation system being worked on. . "warren montgomery" <wamontgomery@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:cfmdnfvvl8FR5uvfRVn-uQ@comcast.com...> No, this isn't spam promoting the latest slasher flick, but an > observation> on the sad state of greens these days and what happens when course> superintendants measure their worth on their stimpmeters. I was > playing a> basic public course last week, and found myself confronted with a > green> where it was virtually impossible to hole out. This green has a > signficant> slope back to front, and is always a bit tricky to putt downhill, but > on> that day no putt would stop within 40 feet of the hole. Anything you > roled> up the slope that didn't find the hole would come back to you. My > partner> and I putted 2 or 3 at it before picking up. My guess is that the > odds of> even a tour pro making a 40 footer are no better than 1 in 10, and for > us> it's probably more like 1 in 50. The trouble is of course the green > is cut> too short to hold the slope. Now I can see how that happens in the US > open> when they are deliberately trying to make it as hard as possible and > go a> little over the edge, but again, we are talking about a $20/.round > public> course in April, where the greens aren't being cut as close as they > are in> mid season and are still full of dimples from last fall's aeration. > What's> this thing going to put like in July?>
"sfb" <sfb@spam.net> wrote in message news:MAvde.9554$eC.5755@trnddc07...> Do you really think the superintendent wants fast greens? They are very > difficult and expensive to maintain and can go bad in a wink. This early > in the year, it has to be an unfortunate combination of circumstances > possibility including dry weather and the irrigation system being worked > on.> . We have had this problem over the years and this year it was completely solved by raising the cutter blades to 7mm over the winter.
