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Old 02-04-2024, 06:40 AM
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Played Kenya/Hemingway today. I can't decide if they plan to bring in bulldozers or goats. They have obviously stop maintaining it to any golf course standard.
That place had gotten so bad that my group just stopped going there altogether. I'm not here May-September, but the guys told me that over the summer the conditions improved dramatically.
We played it a few times in the autumn and it wasn't bad. It was way better than I had ever seen it.
I haven't been on it since before Christmas.

I can't figure out why some of the championship courses are in decent shape even through the winter months, and some are terrible. I'm hearing from multiple sources that Palmer is a mess. We played Laurel Valley when it first reopened and it was good, but I'm hearing it's awful right now.

I could blame the season's combination of poor growing conditions and overplay, but why some courses are much better than others is a complete mystery. Same climate, same amount of play. Totally different conditions.

Mystifying.