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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Ira Fishman on February 23, 2025, 12:44:46 PM

Title: Green tongues
Post by: Ira Fishman on February 23, 2025, 12:44:46 PM

The terrific photos Kyle Harris posted in SVK thread showed at least one prominent tongue on/in a green. The original version of ANGC had several. Why did they go out of style?


Ira

Title: Re: Green tongues
Post by: Ben Sims on February 23, 2025, 01:02:33 PM

Ira,


Good question. My guess is that they result in condensed traffic and are therefore harder to maintain?

Title: Re: Green tongues
Post by: Thomas Dai on February 23, 2025, 01:43:11 PM

Slope and pin-able areas in relation to evolving heights of cut and quicker green speeds might have something to do with it.
Maybe too difficult for most Green Committee members, their friends and relatives! :):)

Atb

Title: Re: Green tongues
Post by: Kyle Harris on February 24, 2025, 07:27:52 AM

When a club’s internal DOCE determined that riding mowers were more efficient than walk behinds.

Title: Re: Green tongues
Post by: Tom_Doak on February 24, 2025, 03:50:45 PM

I saw a three-prong green today at Praia d’el Rey - on a very uphill par-3 where you couldn’t see the shape at all.  It was not great.

Title: Re: Green tongues
Post by: Ira Fishman on February 24, 2025, 04:06:35 PM

Quote from: Tom_Doak on February 24, 2025, 03:50:45 PM

I saw a three-prong green today at Praia d’el Rey - on a very uphill par-3 where you couldn’t see the shape at all.  It was not great.

That does not mean that the concept is not good. It only means that one execution was not good.

Title: Re: Green tongues
Post by: Thomas Dai on February 24, 2025, 05:39:51 PM

I was recently looking at some videos of golf courses in NZ. This thread reminded me of the Haka.
Atb

Title: Re: Green tongues
Post by: Pete Lavallee on February 24, 2025, 06:16:16 PM

Certainly MacKenzie was fond of this concept. At Pasatiempo the. par 5 13th had two tongues in the very back of green; perfectly suitable for a short par 5.