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Date: 17 Jan 2007 20:00:47
From: Dave Lee
Subject: Greens Maintenance Activities
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Our club has two croquet fields/courts (or whatever they call them) and one
lawn bowling ' big flat grass thing' in addition to the usual/expected
practice area. It is a pretty natural fit from a maintenance perspective.
I noticed yesterday that they were taking up a bunch of sod on one of the
croquet fields. It looked like today they were tamping things down and
taking extreme care to get it all level. So I assume that the whole problem
here was that that particular area (maybe 20 feet x 80 feet - these croquet
fields are BIG) had been inadquately flat.
There are a couple of greens at our club that I'd like to see these guys
work on next :-)
dave
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Date: 17 Jan 2007 13:15:41
From: Birdie Bill
Subject: Re: Greens Maintenance Activities
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Dave Lee wrote:
> "Birdie Bill" <bighorn_bill@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1169064524.153954.87750@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > Dave Lee wrote:
> > > Our club has two croquet fields/courts (or whatever they call them) and
> one
> > > lawn bowling ' big flat grass thing' in addition to the usual/expected
> > > practice area. It is a pretty natural fit from a maintenance
> perspective.
> > >
> > > I noticed yesterday that they were taking up a bunch of sod on one of
> the
> > > croquet fields. It looked like today they were tamping things down and
> > > taking extreme care to get it all level. So I assume that the whole
> problem
> > > here was that that particular area (maybe 20 feet x 80 feet - these
> croquet
> > > fields are BIG) had been inadquately flat.
> > >
> > > There are a couple of greens at our club that I'd like to see these guys
> > > work on next :-)
> >
> > I saw your croquet fields on "The Wandering Golfer" just the
> > other night. They mentioned that ideally the fields were
> > supposed to be flat, although I imagine they must need
> > to have _some_ drainage.
> >
> > Nice little club you have there, Dave.
> >
>
> FWIW, they are going to re-work one of our courses this year (re-grass the
> greens, rebuild a number of the tees, and rebuild all the fairways). For the
> next several weeks they'll be closing two holes at a time for a major
> irrigation system upgrade. I'm playing there Friday and hoping that they
> will be re-working holes 6 and 15 :-)
>
> dave
>
> ps. I honestly don't know how much drainage is required around here. The
> 'soil' is little different from beach sand. They don't call it "The
> Sandhills" for nothing. Before I sodded our back yard, I literally used to
> practice explosion shots there with my sandwedge there. I've played on any
> number of courses where the sand in the bunkers was inferior to any old area
> of my back yard.
Ah, yes, forgot about that. With soil like that, I guess flat would
work just fine.
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Date: 17 Jan 2007 13:15:14
From: Howard Brazee
Subject: Re: Greens Maintenance Activities
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:00:47 GMT, "Dave Lee"
<DaveLeeNC@ix.netcom.RemovE.com > wrote:
>I noticed yesterday that they were taking up a bunch of sod on one of the
>croquet fields. It looked like today they were tamping things down and
>taking extreme care to get it all level. So I assume that the whole problem
>here was that that particular area (maybe 20 feet x 80 feet - these croquet
>fields are BIG) had been inadquately flat.
That's tough. As golf course designers know - flat is terrible for
drainage. I suppose if you had enough money, one could have an
undersurface that is tilted for drainage.
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Date: 17 Jan 2007 22:27:16
From: sfb
Subject: Re: Greens Maintenance Activities
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Golf course surface drainage is a big non-no these days because the greens
bitch, moan, and sue about fertilizers, pesticides, etc. draining off.
"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net > wrote in message
news:3s0tq21vtptje66ecurpl89gj9oc7136n0@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:00:47 GMT, "Dave Lee"
> <DaveLeeNC@ix.netcom.RemovE.com> wrote:
>
>>I noticed yesterday that they were taking up a bunch of sod on one of the
>>croquet fields. It looked like today they were tamping things down and
>>taking extreme care to get it all level. So I assume that the whole
>>problem
>>here was that that particular area (maybe 20 feet x 80 feet - these
>>croquet
>>fields are BIG) had been inadquately flat.
>
> That's tough. As golf course designers know - flat is terrible for
> drainage. I suppose if you had enough money, one could have an
> undersurface that is tilted for drainage.
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Date: 17 Jan 2007 12:08:44
From: Birdie Bill
Subject: Re: Greens Maintenance Activities
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Dave Lee wrote:
> Our club has two croquet fields/courts (or whatever they call them) and one
> lawn bowling ' big flat grass thing' in addition to the usual/expected
> practice area. It is a pretty natural fit from a maintenance perspective.
>
> I noticed yesterday that they were taking up a bunch of sod on one of the
> croquet fields. It looked like today they were tamping things down and
> taking extreme care to get it all level. So I assume that the whole problem
> here was that that particular area (maybe 20 feet x 80 feet - these croquet
> fields are BIG) had been inadquately flat.
>
> There are a couple of greens at our club that I'd like to see these guys
> work on next :-)
I saw your croquet fields on "The Wandering Golfer" just the
other night. They mentioned that ideally the fields were
supposed to be flat, although I imagine they must need
to have _some_ drainage.
Nice little club you have there, Dave.
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Date: 17 Jan 2007 20:32:39
From: Dave Lee
Subject: Re: Greens Maintenance Activities
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"Birdie Bill" <bighorn_bill@hotmail.com > wrote in message
news:1169064524.153954.87750@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Dave Lee wrote:
> > Our club has two croquet fields/courts (or whatever they call them) and
one
> > lawn bowling ' big flat grass thing' in addition to the usual/expected
> > practice area. It is a pretty natural fit from a maintenance
perspective.
> >
> > I noticed yesterday that they were taking up a bunch of sod on one of
the
> > croquet fields. It looked like today they were tamping things down and
> > taking extreme care to get it all level. So I assume that the whole
problem
> > here was that that particular area (maybe 20 feet x 80 feet - these
croquet
> > fields are BIG) had been inadquately flat.
> >
> > There are a couple of greens at our club that I'd like to see these guys
> > work on next :-)
>
> I saw your croquet fields on "The Wandering Golfer" just the
> other night. They mentioned that ideally the fields were
> supposed to be flat, although I imagine they must need
> to have _some_ drainage.
>
> Nice little club you have there, Dave.
>
FWIW, they are going to re-work one of our courses this year (re-grass the
greens, rebuild a number of the tees, and rebuild all the fairways). For the
next several weeks they'll be closing two holes at a time for a major
irrigation system upgrade. I'm playing there Friday and hoping that they
will be re-working holes 6 and 15 :-)
dave
ps. I honestly don't know how much drainage is required around here. The
'soil' is little different from beach sand. They don't call it "The
Sandhills" for nothing. Before I sodded our back yard, I literally used to
practice explosion shots there with my sandwedge there. I've played on any
number of courses where the sand in the bunkers was inferior to any old area
of my back yard.
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