How important is a month’s worth of weather ?

[mike_malone]

We had no rain in March and lower than average night temperatures. Try as our super might he couldn’t grow the grass without doing things that hurt the course. It was firm which is fun but very different than normal.


 Now our rough is unusually lush for August as it seems to rain every night. The normal August rough is brown and easy to hit from. Now it’s very challenging. It changes the relationship to the architecture.


We speak often about the relationship of maintenance practices and architecture but sometimes Mother Nature just takes over.

[Ken Moum]

Undeniably true.


Play in middle of country where I lived for 41 years and live with it.


Pierre SD and Topeka KS are almost always fast and fun in the fall into winter.  Spring things can be spotty but June nearly always brings deep, thick rough and slow rolling fairways.


Except when it doesn't, as you note.