Course Conditions
 

Bogie:

Choose your courses wisely. Don't play the bad ones. If you don't care you can shoot 45 anywhere.

personally I am not having any trouble with the condition of the courses , I find that if its a windy day , I just aim a little up wind around the windmill and to the right of the clown's left shoe........and speaking of clowns , If the condition of the course isn't important to you then you might try pickleball..

won a free game .. Fumar .:beer3:

Played FDR today and the course was in great shape, as it usually is. The first par 4 could use some better fairway grass on the last 50-75 yds--- the next one is quite good all the way up. All the greens seemed pretty firm, hard to hold for a hacker like me. Most were quite vast. However, some pin placements were downright vicious. On one (#9), we had a 8-10 footer that broke about 3-4 inches. I barely touched the ball, it lipped the cup, almost stopped a foot past the hole, then took a sharp right turn and rolled off the front of the green. A birdie quickly became a bogey. But damn it was fun anyway.

Golf course conditions
 

Played Mallory Hill Thursday and found fairways to be very hard. Lots of roll.Greens were lightning fast. Hard to hold the greens on approach shots.
Play Glenview Friday(today) and found fairways to be hard but not extremely so. Greens were absolutely perfect. No bare spots and speed was perfect.

My experience has been that Glenview is about the best condition with the exception of Palmer - haven't played there yet this year. The courses south of 466 have really hard fairways, and if you get off the fairway or green, it is basically hardpan. The greens at Mallory had some sort of disease, and they were terrible for awhile, but I've heard they have gotten better. Haven't played there lately to check. The greens at Cane were decent last week. Havana was really hard and dry, so I've avoided that course as well, but their greens are usually pretty fast. I last played Glenview 2 weeks ago, and the greens were a little on the pokey side, but not bad. Of course, things change quickly around here, and they may be faster now.

Tierra del Sol condition
 

Played TDS today. Had some bare lies, in fairway as well as off, but I guess is to be expected, with the lack of rain we've had. Greens are pretty good, although today, front side was considerably slower than back, but was told by a friend that works on the course, that they double cut the back side greens this morning, which i liked alot. Overall, I say it's a go to play it right now. I personally love TDS course layout, anyway. when it's in good condition. Is among my top 3 in TV's. That doesn't mean I score the best on it, by any means. Is all you can handle from back tees, and a challenge from any tees, commensurate with your ability.

All of the courses would play much better and the fairway grass would be more dense if they were watered properly. The watering ban, if I understand correctly, extends throughout Florida, because of drought conditions. As we are only allowed to water once a week with our irrigation systems at our homes, I wonder how this is handled on golf courses. Anyone know?

Mallory
 

We played mallory Yesterday (Sat)... It was hard as a brick... zero rough... endless hardpan... very dry.

Don't mean to interrupt this thread but you guys (gals) are making me crazy. It's 60 degrees here this weekend but still ankle deep in snow!

Keep up the good discussion. I live vicariously through it:laugh:

Hard fairways south of 466
 

In case you missed it here is an explanation regarding the hard, fast conditions south of 466:

http://www.golfthevillages.com/turftalk.asp

We played Glenview yesterday - beautiful fairways and greens. The rough is still brown, but doesn't appear hard and dry like Mallory. They were obviously doing some watering.

Golf course conditions
 

I also played Glenview again yesterday and I concur with Taj44's description. Course is in very good shape. Greens are a tad slower than some of the other courses but perfect speed for me.

Thanx Russ. I'd never noticed that feature.

Did have to cut 'n paste, however, as the hot link didn't work.


Course report: Played Pelican and the fairways were dry as advertised. The weeds/natural grasses/snake pits seemed to be quite healthy and if anything have increased their magnetic attraction to errant tee shots. On a positive note, when I finally did hit a green, it took a nice ballpark and held well. Except for the mysterious stripe on #8 (or 7 or 6, whatever), all the greens were plush and putted well. --- What is that stripes. Guesses have ranged from vandalism to an escaped Burmese Python that died and rotted there.




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The mysterious stripe you mentioned on Pelican #8 green was caused by an oil leak on a mower.

I agree - the greens were a tad on the slow side. On a brighter note, I played 9 holes yesterday at Mallory (Caroline, sigh) and the greens seem much improved over a few weeks ago. The rough is brown but not as dry and hard as it was. I assume they're watering too.