Crappy conditions at Masters?

[MClutterbuck]

The conditions are clearly not as pristine as they normally are this time of year. The course is normally perfect at this time for member play.

[Kalen Braley]

I'm with Mayday here, one must have some standards...

And he's gotta be relieved as it'd be easy to turn down that Augusta Invite, who'd want to play that dog track!

[SB]

And there you have it.  A course with an unlimited budget, unlimited labor hours, millions of dollars in infrastructure, decades of investing and people are complaining about the conditions.  Please remember this the next time you bitch about your superintendent who has none of the above advantages, not to mention 1000 times the traffic. 

[Mike Bodo]

And there you have it.  A course with an unlimited budget, unlimited labor hours, millions of dollars in infrastructure, decades of investing and people are complaining about the conditions.  Please remember this the next time you bitch about your superintendent who has none of the above advantages, not to mention 1000 times the traffic.

+1

[Wayne_Kozun]

#12 green looked thin

Agreed #12 looked very thin on Saturday, less so on Sunday - perhaps the pin location on Saturday was on a less lush portion of the green.

[David_Elvins]

They had to overseed,

*Chose?

[Daryl "Turboe" Boe]

Am I the only one that was surprised that they were not doing the normal Masters routine of cleaning up every scrap of divot on the par 3 tees between each group and filling the divots with the green sand divot mix that is so perfectly colored that you cant see any divots on camera when the next group comes.   I understand that they dramatically reduced the volunteer staff this year because of Covid protocols but I was surprised that was one of the jobs that was not deemed as "essential".    It was stark given the normal perfectly cleaned tee boxes on most years.

[Sean_A]

I saw cart tracks behind a green on Saturday. That really stood out in the low sun. Seems like folks would know not to drive that close to a green and I wonder if was raised in a meeting.

Ciao

[Mark Chaplin]

Some different coloured grasses and people complain, on a links course we rejoice.

[Anthony_Nysse]

They had to overseed,

*Chose?

Had. Their timing to overseed before the event gave just enough time to have a good stand & make sure they can produce for the 2021 Masters.


Had. It's August & The Masters. They will always overseed. Its a membership & club that is closed during the bermudagrass months. Their intention is to play on overseed, therefore they had to seed.

[MClutterbuck]

And there you have it.  A course with an unlimited budget, unlimited labor hours, millions of dollars in infrastructure, decades of investing and people are complaining about the conditions.  Please remember this the next time you bitch about your superintendent who has none of the above advantages, not to mention 1000 times the traffic.

As for my part, I was not complaining at all, in fact I used it at my club so that people stop bitching that conditions are not ideal 12 months of the year even with an unlimited budget.

Still, the conditions were clearly not normal for this time of year. Something went bad while seeding the rye grass.

[Mike Bodo]

Here's Brooks Koepka's take on the course conditions from his press conference yesterday and why they favored a golfer with DJ's skill set.


“The course suited him down to the ground. He’s more of a picker of the ball. He doesn’t spin it that much with his irons. So the ball’s not going to be backing up, so he can get to a lot of the back pins a lot better,” Koepka said of DJ. “If you pick it like that, you can really, really control … you’re never going to rip it off the front of the green, where I feel like a lot of people, pretty much everybody struggled with that. Like I said, it just suited him.”


Not sure how much this is factual and how much is sour grapes given his and DJ's acrimonious relationship, but I found this interesting.