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Ulrich Mayring

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To protect the greens ...
« on: December 04, 2018, 04:26:26 PM »
... they have to lie in the shade, so we need to plant trees around them.

The architect of my home course is quoted thusly. Luckily he seems to have ignored his own advice.

Ulrich
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A.G._Crockett

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Re: To protect the greens ...
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2018, 05:36:48 PM »
Quote from: Ulrich Mayring on December 04, 2018, 04:26:26 PM
... they have to lie in the shade, so we need to plant trees around them.

The architect of my home course is quoted thusly. Luckily he seems to have ignored his own advice.

Ulrich
Oh, dear...
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John Emerson

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Re: To protect the greens ...
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2018, 09:13:17 AM »
I’d say find a new architect ASAP fwiw.
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Ulrich Mayring

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Re: To protect the greens ...
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2018, 06:29:13 PM »
Interestingly, there aren't any trees around our greens. But some of our tees are protected very well from sunshine damage :)

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John Emerson

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Re: To protect the greens ...
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2018, 06:34:09 PM »
the quote may be out of context, but it sure is dangerous and stupid.  If I was a member I’d be in the faction of “let’s go another direction” aka: let’s find someone else
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Jeff Schley

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Re: To protect the greens ...
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2018, 12:16:25 AM »
Quote from: Ulrich Mayring on December 08, 2018, 06:29:13 PM
But some of our tees are protected very well from sunshine damage :)

Ulrich

Ulrich..... I just chuckled out loud at work... nice one. ;D
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Jim_Coleman

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Re: To protect the greens ...
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2018, 08:10:41 AM »
   Only goes to prove one can find an "expert" to say just about anything.
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Mike_Young

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Re: To protect the greens ...
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2018, 09:59:25 AM »
Were these comments written in a report or just passed along? 

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Ulrich Mayring

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Re: To protect the greens ...
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2018, 05:47:35 PM »
I wouldn't post it, if it were just hearsay or otherwise unsubstantiated. It was in the regional newspaper. Said architect was interviewed about a new course he was building. The concrete question was which data he would research before building a course.

He replied that weather data was important for various reasons and in the course of that explanation the notion of protecting greens from the sun by planting trees came up. The whole paragraph is IMHO too complex for a simple misquotation. In the next sentence he said that greens are cut at 3mm and have 50cm roots. So he was definitely talking about greens and he was very specific.

The reason I posted this was to find an advocatus diaboli. Anyone up for that?

Ulrich
« Last Edit: December 09, 2018, 05:50:31 PM by Ulrich Mayring »
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John Emerson

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Re: To protect the greens ...
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2018, 08:11:26 PM »
How about a link to the newspaper article? 
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