Cool looking green surfaces.
They should straighten out that little jog in the line though...
The absence of satellites is nice too, even if it is more standard there.
It's good to know I'm doing things like they do in St. Andrews.
Thank you for the pictures.
You got my thinking about that jog--I think it's reflective of a little swale that comes into the green right there, and I'd not be surprised if it got smoothed into a nice curve to fit the ground.
You threw me with the satellites comment, but you're right, that course would look odd with them sticking up all over.
The natural look is hugely prized even by the odd non-golfing Scot. After playing Brora, I was told the the owner of our B&B in Nairn how much we liked it, and he said, "Aye, it's all natural, nothing artificial there." And he doesn't play.
The fact that they go out of their way to not stripe the fairways is telling. At TOC in 2005, IIRC, they used more than a dozen triplex greensmowers on the fairways during The Open, running in a pack, all in one direction.
I asked if they mowed every day during The Open and was told, "We do, but we don't get much off them, it's basically just polishing them."
Ken