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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter
To some people things were always better "up North".
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"Up North" is where I live and I can assert that things are not always the best here either.
After the snow melts there is usually a recovery period with waterlogged faiways, and winter-kill greens.
It we get hot summers then the grass burns up, if the summers are wet then fairways are damaged by carts and there is constantly under GUR rules.
Every year is different, this year my member course was beautiful, two years ago it was like a war zone.
We just need to appreciate that even the best courses are subject to weather ravages.
On the the two times we played on the Palmer, the course was great and a pleasure to play. The next time we play we may be dissapointed, but that's life.
Growing up in Scotland our local course often had sheep grazing on the course and we had to contend with sheep poop all over. Not ideal, but we thought it was a great course. I visited that course 3 years ago and there were no longer sheep there and no little brown hazards, there hadn't been sheep on the course for over 25 years I was told. Sad, as it spoiled the memories as I had fully expected the same challenges to be there. Can you imagine what the number of complaints would be if we had sheep grazing on the courses here!
We need to remember that golf did not start on perfectly manicured courses, often they were on land that was not really fit for agriculture (especially the links courses). The original bunkers were where cattle and sheep had sought shelter, or bedded down for the night.
If a course presents challenges due to weather damage, so be it. I would rather put up with that, than with really slow play or bad mannered golfers.