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Old 06-22-2024, 05:08 AM
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Originally Posted by ureout View Post
does anyone know why when they aerate the greens on a course that has 27 holes, why don't they do just 9 holes and close it, leaving the other 18 holes open for play with NON BUMPY greens .. then wait 2 week and do another 9 .. instead of doing all 27 and losing a lot of business to the other courses.. who is in charge of this and anyone know where to get a phone number??
So what is your aeration strategy for our 18 hole courses? Do 9 holes and have the golfers play the same 9 twice ?
In your scenario if only one course was aerated at a time, the speed of the greens would be different for each of the 3 9s all summer as they would be on different healing schedules.
Talk about opening the proverbial Pandora complaint box for the residents