Snooze Championships

Well, we have had the first week of the champs and and the course is looking in super condition for the event. The greens were running nicely with some of those down hill puts requiring a bit of attention. There were some pretty good scores on the Saturday with the course fighting back on Sunday with a few harder pin positions and firm fast greens. The greens will be double cut again each morning at 3 mm and should provide a good challenge. A few pictures of the course below. Click on the picture for a larger view.

You may have noticed a few green/blue lines around the margins of a number of the fairways. This is to indicate the fairway mowing lines. The general guidelines for the fairways are:

• Average width of around 25 metres – allowing for some narrower areas and wider areas depending on the hole and the distance from the tee (landing zones), Effective fairway watering is achieved in the area between the fairway sprinklers. In dry conditions any fairway outside this area will not receive adequate water to provide a quality surface. Our fairway sprinklers are currently 20-22 metres apart.
• Keep the fairways on the flat areas that had been designated as fairway – allow first rough cut to be on flat ground also
• Avoid bare areas caused by trees and tree roots
• Emphasise the shape of hole encouraging players to play a certain line especially on holes that have a dogleg
• Rough around bunkers - we are also providing and area of rough around the fairway and green side bunkers as the grass is often of poor quality close to the edge on the bunkers.