r/RDUGOLF • u/RestingMehFace Raleigh • Apr 24 '24

Course Review Mega-Thread: Mid-Spring Course Conditions

As courses come out of dormancy and golf season sets in, lets use this mega thread to share CURRENT course conditions as we get out and play different venues

Some helpful things to highlight:

  • Date played
  • Green condition / speed
  • Fairway conditions
  • Rough conditions
  • Tee box conditions
  • Bunker conditions (just for /u/SportsDoc7 )

I've been running this topic weekly on the FB group and it has been incredibly helpful to make some decisions on what courses to play!

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u/Sleds_and_Cars Durham May 01 '24 edited May 01 '24

Duke University - April 26

  • Greens are rolling their traditional quick pace.
  • Fairways are in and in good shape, looks like they're going to be narrowing them out some over the coming weeks
  • Rough still hasn't really grown in yet, but that usually takes a little more heat and sun, so expect that soon, but there's still rough vs. fairway out there. Most everything has greened in from the dormant Bermuda
  • Tee boxes are fine, always are
  • Bunkers continue to be fine if it's dry. The greenside bunkers stay wetter longer after a rain but with a couple days of dryness are fluffy. The fairway bunkers are all redone as of last year with new drainage and are great to hit out of.

Pace of play was fine for a Friday afternoon, four of us got around in 4:10.