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Originally Posted by ricthemic
Excellent Post. I played OB for the first time two weeks ago and do not care if I ever play there again. The greens were horrible. Played Palmer today. Greens are very fast due to lack of grass. They are very green like the tees due apparently from green paint.
What is weird is some exec's like saddlebrook and el santiago, as well as their practice greens have great greens while other exec's like Belmont, Amberwood etc suck.
We are new and have guest coming down cause we raved about the place (which everything but the greens is true) but will be totally embarrassed by these greens. Many villages report good greens on courses outside of the villages. They had the same weather so what happened? To me, this is an extremely important issue.
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is embarrasing when friends come. And like you said, even within our own community, some courses are good and others aren't, and they all experienced the weather conditions. In the past, we might have had one course that was not good. For example, the past few years Cane Garden was dry and hard, so we used to play Orange Blossum and Tierra because the greens were so terrific. But this season, it seems like about half the (Championship) courses have poor conditions, and it isn't even just the greens. The fairways are clumpy so you have patches of grass, then patches with no grass, so it is like playing out of a divot if your ball happens to land in the no grass area. I've never seen it like that here. I imagine the heat and rain we've had the past week will help things regenerate, but its been about 2 months of crap conditions, and here we are paying top dollar in greens fees.
I like soonFL's idea of forming a committee to report to the CDD on maintenance issues with the Executive and Championship courses, if they don't have one already. The question I ask myself, is even if the CDD does have a committee and is aware of the conditions, will they do anything, particularly if it involves spending more money? With so many people here this time of year, and the shortage of tee times, they seem to have no trouble filling the time slots, so is there an incentive for them to make the golf course conditions better?