A hundred balls on the first
Pitch-mark epidemic
This photograph shows over a hundred golf balls on the first green. Why?
Well on Monday after a typical day of Members golf, Member for Course, Robert Hunter, Les Howkins and Duncan, from the Green Keeping Team, took a few baskets of range balls and placed a ball in every un-repaired pitch mark. The large majority of these marks are made by Members and the photograph serves as a powerful image of how we look after our golf course.
Also - it could have been taken on any green. Please make sure you repair your pitch mark and, even if you didn’t make one, repair someone else’s. Most importantly, make sure you know how to repair the mark properly.
Prising up the indentation is not the way!
Thanks to Ralph Doyle for the image and we will be producing a video demonstration when Les is finished in make-up.
It takes second to do and if we all repaired two pitch marks per green the quality of our greens would improve enormously.
Just to reinforce what an issue this is Lady Captain, Enid Hughes, sent me the attached
This was Tuesday at noon on the 15th green. Over twenty ignored pitch marks were spotted and repaired by Enid’s flight.
I would rather be posting the fun stuff but a couple of weeks ago saw a huge mark left within a couple of metres from the pin! Obviously repaired it - so who wouldn’t?!
Well on Monday after a typical day of Members golf, Member for Course, Robert Hunter, Les Howkins and Duncan, from the Green Keeping Team, took a few baskets of range balls and placed a ball in every un-repaired pitch mark. The large majority of these marks are made by Members and the photograph serves as a powerful image of how we look after our golf course.
Also - it could have been taken on any green. Please make sure you repair your pitch mark and, even if you didn’t make one, repair someone else’s. Most importantly, make sure you know how to repair the mark properly.
Prising up the indentation is not the way!
Thanks to Ralph Doyle for the image and we will be producing a video demonstration when Les is finished in make-up.
It takes second to do and if we all repaired two pitch marks per green the quality of our greens would improve enormously.
Just to reinforce what an issue this is Lady Captain, Enid Hughes, sent me the attached
This was Tuesday at noon on the 15th green. Over twenty ignored pitch marks were spotted and repaired by Enid’s flight.
I would rather be posting the fun stuff but a couple of weeks ago saw a huge mark left within a couple of metres from the pin! Obviously repaired it - so who wouldn’t?!