What a difference a year makes

[Ed Tilley]

The gods are p***ing down on England in so many ways this summer. These photos are of the 12th and 14th holes on the Red course at Frilford Heath. They were taken both yesterday and early July 2015. Is anywhere in the UK playing properly firm and fast at the moment?

12th
Last year


This year



14th
Last year


This year

[Thomas Dai]

Maybe not the degree of p...ing it down further to the west of you but certainly green and lush wherever I've played, including sand based courses. Very little fairway roll so courses playing long. Not so easy to play, or even have the incentive to play, the ground game into the greens at the moment. Lush, slow fairways and firm and fast (but well drained) greens, not normally a recipe for low scoring in the UK.
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[Niall C]

If you had asked a week or so ago I'd have said the west coast of Scotland. Fairways looked like your last years photos. Since then we've had a bit of rain which have greened them up some but still fairly firm. The forecast is a wee bit mixed between now and next Thursday but expect Troon will play like a links for the Open.


Niall

[David Davis]

I would suggest you can significantly raise the prices and make them all ultra high end private parkland courses for this year only.


Just a thought    Shame I left England off the rota this year. I think California is experiencing the ideal golf draught. (ok, I know it's not, but yellow, brown fast and firm trumps ultra soft wet and lush heathland any day.