Roughly six months, but the beginning and end are very spotty. Generally, April and October are "day-to-day" for most courses, but October snows don't melt off as quickly as April snows. May and September are generally golfable but both months will still have occasional snow closures and frequent morning frost delays.
As a retired golf professional this pretty much hits the nail on the head,
I had a golf course management person tell me the same thing. That big old asset is out there eating up resources whether the weather is fair of foul. It's hard to make money on a golfing operation.
Probably post emergent. Pre em isn't going to touch weeds that are already present.
If you have a period of bad weather, that revenue is gone forever. You can't make it back up.
Could be; I just know the term that was used. This was at the end of the winter, before summer grasses started jumping, but I'm no agronomist. Maybe our greenskeeper isn't, either. We do have some noticeable encroachment issues. We are punching and sanding today and tomorrow, about three weeks earlier than usual.
It’s no secret that golf is dominated by rich, white men ,likely because they’re the only demographic with personalities equipped to enjoy such an activity. Up until recently, I didn’t realize how much they control the industry.
I'm a blue collar golfer who has played a good semi-private course since 1977. Moreover, I am surrounded by blue collar golfers.
There are a lot of blue collar golfers and a lot of courses tailored for them. They know the courses they play aren't going to be mistaken for the Augusta National. If all courses were kept to the standard of the high end courses, 90+% of them would go out of business because very few people would be able to afford to play on them.
People don't appreciate that, for every Quail Hollow, there are scores to hundreds of Fox Creeks.
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LOL; like the guy with the $2500 set of clubs who can't break 100.A little humor for the golfing crowd - surely, you've all experienced this or something similar. lol
Babylon Bee - 'Hang On, Let Me Check The Distance With My Rangefinder,' Says Guy About To Duff Ball 6 Inches
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That is a bargain. By and large, what kind of grasses do courses favor up there? I could see bent on the greens in a climate that cool, but what about fairways? Fescue? Bent? Zoysia? Something else?
I have a different take, seeing players with varying abilities trying to play different courses.
@Uscg1984 - I intended for the question mark in the "bargain" sentence to be a period, and the period in the sentence mentioning several grasses to be a question mark. $50 is a bargain to play a Nicklaus course. I was seeking information about the agronomy on Montana golf courses, not recommending they should be any particular way. I was propounding certain grasses that I know about. What they have up there might be entirely different, and I would find that interesting.
No worries, I assumed the question mark was a typo. I figured there wasnt any doubt a regular golfer such as yourself would know $50 was a bargain to play a Nicklaus course with a cart and unlimited range balls. That price also gets you access to a 3-hole practice course the Bear built around the range - excellent for settling a tie.
I would noticed a pretty sizable bump due to Covid. Golf courses were open when not much else was, and lots of people come on board. I witnessed it myself. Courses were crowded while restaurants and other businesses deemed non-essential languished. Lots of those people are still playing and account for much of the obvious increase in walking for the sake of fitness and economy.
This is correct. Covid was the best thing that happened to golf. We just had our most profitable year ever at the 30 year old course where I work.
My brother is a member there and he would co-sign that. It should be mentioned that they had a major refurbishing a couple of years ago.
Not ordinarily the norm on a private course such as that one.
The results of becoming a tour venue.
I talked with a friend this weekend that is looking to join and said around $325 i think!
I used to love Hickory Knob, but I played it about a year ago and it was pretty bad. “Furry” greens, and poor all around condition. Looking at the lake, 10 or more feet below a reasonable level, did not enhance my experience. I live in Aiken, and am not gonna drive that far for an underwhelming course.
Loved Cooper Creek and Bogeyville! I moved to Florida for 25 years, and was disappointed when I moved back to Aiken that both are now closed.
