Has The Weather Made A Difference To Your Course?

Hi and good afternoon to everyone.

Just a quick post today to see how you are all doing.

First of all, did you all get the links in my previous post regarding the rules of the game. It will help you no end if you have a copy of the rules in your bag, and you can cope with any situation you are faced with on the course. For a very small amount of money, it is worth clicking on the link for whatever continent you are on and securing a copy.

Now, for a bit of a moan. I was out yesterday playing in my weekly medal. We have two courses in our town and one club I am a member of plays each of these courses on alternate weeks. We all realise, because of the weather we have had lately ( I'm in Scotland ) that it is very difficult for the greenkeeper to get the course into really good condition. It is still early in the year, and trying to get all the work done in between the terrible weather is a very hard job.

But yesterday we played what we would call our second course, for the first time this year. And what a disappointment. And I do have to say that it wasn't all down to the weather. The course was in an awful state, untidy with grass not cut, ditches dug to get rid of lying water, and water lying on parts of the course where it's never been before. Is this down to ditches being dug in the wrong places and diverting the water elsewhere?

But the really disappointing part was the condition of the greens. I would have said the course should have been closed because the greens were, in our opinion, unplayable. Covered in sand and full of holes, you just had no idea what the ball was going to do. If you fired in a wedge, the ball just stopped dead. Not with backspin or any kind of action, just the state of the greens. Putting was a lottery, we had no idea where the ball was going to end up.

So it was a disappointing game yesterday. When you pay a lot of money for your ticket, you expect the course to be in reasonable condition.

Anyone else with similar problems. Was it down to the weather or the greenkeeping staff? Let us know of any problems you have had and how they were overcome.

Until the next time,

Gordon.