Variations amongst greens
Reminds me that a couple of questions have come to mind about our local greens.
First, played a couple of the nines at Bonifay about a week ago. The greens putted *wonderfully*! They *felt* pretty to walk across. We've mostly played the same few executives and pitch and putts since getting here less than six months ago.
I'm curious about what "obvious" differences there could be amongst the various greens. None were "bad", as compared to, say, the local munis I occasionally got to play as a kid - not counting the "recently aerated versions". :-) I don't get any sense that mowing height is significantly different, but suspect that this is more my lack of "sensibility" in that area of understanding/observation.
But, what really has me flummoxed is when I carry an iron onto a green, the variation that I find in ball mark production is mind boggling. Using ProV1's so the marks (if present) tend to be only a few feet away. *But*, many greens show *no ball mark at all*! And, this would be on the same course on the same day!
Have now started noticing that many greens on the executive courses that we play the most will have zero un-repaired ball marks, whilst a few of the holes will have many. I initially made the assumption that this was likely due to the length of the holes - with shorter holes being both hit on the fly more often, as well as being more like to be hit by higher flying, more steeply descending short irons. *But*, I *will* occasionally carry a nice, high 4 iron onto a green, and I've found the same variable result on those occasions - there may or may not be a ball mark to be found, and that seems to correlate with whether there are other, unrepaired marks extant on that green.
So, why do some greens - on the same nine holes - yield ball marks, while others don't?? BTW, I found the same to be true on those fine, Bonifay nines' greens.
Oh, and I find it all but impossible to walk by an unrepaired ball mark without stopping and repairing it. Think "Monk". :-) Oh, and *all* of the greens which failed to show ball marks *still* felt nice and "soft" to my feet as I trod across them. TIA
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