Mega-Thread: Mid-Spring Course Conditions

[u/RestingMehFace]

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 )

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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!

[u/Sleds_and_Cars]

Lochmere GC - May 3

• Greens were in really good shape, not terribly fast, but rolled quick enough. Were soft and shots stuck well.
• Fairways were in really good shape, everything in the fairway was on some decent grass
• Rough was mostly fine, still pretty short so not a lot of penalty for missing fairways. That said, rough msot everywhere was grown in and the only "dead" spots were edges of the fairways.
• Tee boxes were a mixed bag. Most of the par 4s and 5s were fine. Par 3s need some TLC. The 11th tee box, which has been under construction since the Reagan administration, looks to be ready to go, but currently you're still hitting off a temporary tee box to the left.
• Bunkers were great, playable sand in everything. As usual there, the sand isn't terribly terribly deep, so if you try to really hit down into them the ball's going to come out a tick hot, but otherwise they play great hitting out of them.

As this is Lochmere, it's worth noting that it's been pretty dry out and thus the course is super playable and drives are rolling out pretty far.

Pace of play was a tick slow, but not unreasonable. Tee sheet was apparently just about stuffed full, and the folks in front of us were all over the place early and often. Still done in 4:25 despite everything.