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Originally Posted by John_W
Thanks for the heads up, I was going to put in for Egret on Friday since they showed aerification was last done on May 19th. The past two weeks I played Cane Garden (Jacaranda to Allamada) and Havana (Hemingway only) and the greens were pretty good at both courses.
I see posters always making reference to a money issue for TV golf courses. These courses receive paying customers 12 months of the year and for six of those months they get top dollar. I came from Maryland and we usually never played past early November and started back early April, that's about 8 months of income for those courses. They also don't get top dollar green fees except on the weekends. That 8 days a month out of 30 days, the November to April higher green fees is a lot longer and the six month summer fees should be like gravy. Just saying.
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With all due respect to KCRaz, I'm not one of the greens condition whiners. I don't think the greenskeepers are out there in the sun all day trying to make bad conditions. I only picked on Egret because it really was pretty bad---considering 5 days earlier they were much better. Bonifay was in decent shape and Belle Glade was much better last week than it had been. Havana and Mallory are fine, haven't played Cane Garden or Palmer recently. I think the main problem with the courses south of 466A was that they were aerated during the drought while most of the rain hit the northern end of TV, then 10 days later the deluge began. It has to be real hard to deal with that kind of fluctuation in weather