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Old 02-05-2012, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by schotzyb View Post
Has anyone else noticed how hard the greens have become in the last week or so?
We played Bonifay Friday and Cane Garden today and it it was next to impossible to get a ball to stop. You had to drop one out of a plane to leave a ball mark. I am sure the lack of rain is the main contributor and the retention ponds have to be suffering.

Even though I had intended to wait for summer to play Bonifay again we ended up with an early tee time there Friday. Not only was it tough to stop the ball on those greens but the fairways were also giving quite a bit of roll. On #1 of Fort Walton I had 265 to center of the green and hit my 3 hybrid, which is normally 200yds, only to have the ball roll up just behind the parked carts next to the green of the group in front of us. Quickly caught up to them at the next green to apologize and that was after the group behind us had done the same thing to us.
Hope that was not your group in front of us.