[Happinow]

We played turtle mound the other day and was surprised to see all of the greens had been covered with sand. I guess they aerated them and put sand on them. Perhaps it makes it grow back nicely. Since we are fairly new to golf here we didn't expect to be playing in the dirt! I wish there was a way they could let golfers know when a course is being worked on. We will not play the course again until it gets back into shape. ( I do enough playing in the sand on the courses without the greens being all dirt). Does anyone know of any other courses like this?

[graciegirl]

Usually after the busy season they will areate the greens. Here they pull up tiny plugs of sand, in Ohio it is more like dirt.

Part and parcel of playing golf. Kinda like lovebugs.

Here for awhile and then gone.

[pooh]

Check out golf thevillages.com. There you'll find the aeration schedule for 2013.

http://golfthevillages.com/

[pooh]

Strange, not linking properly, but you can type in golfthevillages.com in your browser....then look underTurf Talk.

[ajbrown]

Aeration Schedule

This site has a wealth of information about golf in TV.

Golf in The Villages

[CWGUY]

Originally Posted by Happinow

We played turtle mound the other day and was surprised to see all of the greens had been covered with sand. I guess they aerated them and put sand on them. Perhaps it makes it grow back nicely. Since we are fairly new to golf here we didn't expect to be playing in the dirt! I wish there was a way they could let golfers know when a course is being worked on. We will not play the course again until it gets back into shape. ( I do enough playing in the sand on the courses without the greens being all dirt). Does anyone know of any other courses like this?

Are you sure that you played Turtle Mound and not SANDHILL?

Quick question.... Is your first name "Never" ?

[gomoho]

Makes from an interesting game though!

[Russ_Boston]

Sandhill was done on 5/6 - Turtle Mound is 5/13.

[Happinow]

Originally Posted by CWGUY

Are you sure that you played Turtle Mound and not SANDHILL?

Quick question.... Is your first name "Never" ?

Um.......not sure I'm laughing over that comment. It was just an observation and to see if other courses are being aerated as I want to avoid those courses. I often post positive comments on here but also think I'm entitled to post my not so good experiences as well. Perhaps it was sandhill which in that case was very fitting.

[Russ_Boston]

Originally Posted by Happinow

Um.......not sure I'm laughing over that comment. It was just an observation and to see if other courses are being aerated as I want to avoid those courses. I often post positive comments on here but also think I'm entitled to post my not so good experiences as well. Perhaps it was sandhill which in that case was very fitting.

Yes, that is why they post the aeration schedule for all to see many, many months in advance.

[zcaveman]

The aeration schedule is also in the Daily Sun sports section on page B-2 in that green column that is there twice a week.

Z