Golf Thread

@give it to gordon Interested to hear your thoughts on greens drainage. My place now has flooded greens throughout the winter and the HG has the final say on whether it opens or not. from looking around there is the hydrowick option which looks like you can get the green back pretty quickly or the turfdry option which looks more invasive but has a longer lasting effect? Alternatively there's piped drainage, gravel/sand at 2metres. I guess they all have their pros/cons. Our board hasn't spent a bloody bean on greens drainage and now it's biting us on the arse.

Regarding club memberships, a lot of clubs brought in cheap memberships for the 18-30 brigade post Covid, I think numbers will drop back down again. Energy prices/water costs also hitting clubs hard.
 
bluemonkey71 said:
@give it to gordon Interested to hear your thoughts on greens drainage. My place now has flooded greens throughout the winter and the HG has the final say on whether it opens or not. from looking around there is the hydrowick option which looks like you can get the green back pretty quickly or the turfdry option which looks more invasive but has a longer lasting effect? Alternatively there's piped drainage, gravel/sand at 2metres. I guess they all have their pros/cons. Our board hasn't spent a bloody bean on greens drainage and now it's biting us on the arse.

Regarding club memberships, a lot of clubs brought in cheap memberships for the 18-30 brigade post Covid, I think numbers will drop back down again. Energy prices/water costs also hitting clubs hard.
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To be honest I havent been in greenkeeping for over 13 years now so dont know the methods you mentioned.

I'm guess your greens are old push up greens built from the local soil. These greens where built to hold water because irrigation only became common around the 70's. Also golf wasnt play in the winter was these greens were fine.

Nowadays these greens are being used for 365 days of the year, something they arent design for.

We put slit drainage filled with a drainage material which lead to the main drain on the apron. This worked if the green had a good slope along with alot of maintenance all year round. I would pencil tine more or less weekly in the wet months. Also use a machine that pumped air into the sub soil, both cause very little surface disruption.

For all this to help you have to keep the thatch layer to a minimum and well mixed so as not to cause a pan. It's all about keeping the surface as open as possible.

But most traditional British greens were built over 100 years ago to hold water and no winter play !

Each course is different so can only speak for where I worked.
 
I see Luke Donald has been re-appointed as the European Ryder Cup captain for the competition at Bethpage Black in 2025. I guess he was always likely to get the nod (once he didn't rule himself out) after the fantastic job he did in Rome back in September. And I presume he'll have the bulk of his team of assistants again, if they're available and willing.
 
New season approaching and it’s silly season for new releases. Is anybody looking to trade up? Anyone that buys new every year or are we all too sensible for that?
 
journolud said:
New season approaching and it’s silly season for new releases. Is anybody looking to trade up? Anyone that buys new every year or are we all too sensible for that?
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I always give it a year after they come out and pick up something for less than half price. Just started using a Stealth 2 driver and so far so good but keeping my M6 irons and Callaway Jaws wedges.

Will probably get a new Stealth 2 rescue 3 iron to replace my old Cleveland and then I’ll be good to go.
 
Broken Biscuits said:
I always give it a year after they come out and pick up something for less than half price. Just started using a Stealth 2 driver and so far so good but keeping my M6 irons and Callaway Jaws wedges.

Will probably get a new Stealth 2 rescue 3 iron to replace my old Cleveland and then I’ll be good to go.
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This is all well and good but does it come in any other colour than red..........? ;-)
 
journolud said:
New season approaching and it’s silly season for new releases. Is anybody looking to trade up? Anyone that buys new every year or are we all too sensible for that?
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My mate who is in our golf group won the first prize in the Pro’s Christmas raffle, a £500 driver, he only bought a new Ping last year but I reckon he’ll go for one of the new ones, the Callaway Smoke looks mint, he’s 4.5 so he’ll get good value, would be wasted on me.

However I won the £200 second prize in the raffle, a Lindeberg jacket, I’ve never paid that for a golf outer layer so I opted for a Footjoy Gillet at £110 and put £90 in the book, should keep me in balls for a month or so.
 
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