I am not trying to pick on Diddel, the super at Wichita or the members of Wichita. I am merely using the photos to illustrate some points and hopefully learn something about grass lines.
I have asked many times why so many American courses squeeze fairways when nearing greens. Below is a decent example of the fairway narrowing as near the green, thus reducing short grass chipping areas and to a minor degree holding up balls from finding bunkers.
Here is another example.
I can understand grassing lines on the inside of bunkers when archies build mounding for bunkers - its a sort of compromise. Otherwise, the grass line would have to go wide of the entire mounding complex unless a line was made down the middle of a mound(s) - probably the worst solution. Sure, I would prefer the grass lines to always go outside of bunkers, but...
Anyway, why did this style of grass lines ever come about?
Do supers/club members give this much thought?
Have supers/archies experimented with ways to build bunkers which are easier to cut around and keep the cut lines outside the bunkers?
Are there supers/archies there trying to push grass lines out. More of a style of continuing the fairway width through the green complex.
Its just that I see photo tour after tour showing the same cut lines, almost as if its part of a school of learning supers go through. Do supers learn to cut grass this way?
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