[Jeff_Lewis]

Seriously. They deserve this disaster for playing on some manufactured parkland course in a place with so much great Links golf.  Anybody play Royal Porthcawl today or know if its playable?

[Jon Wiggett]

Jeff,

it must. After all, Celtic M has been built to the top specs the USGA can supply and mother nature could never come close to competing with that

Jon

[Sean_A]

Seriously. They deserve this disaster for playing on some manufactured parkland course in a place with so much great Links golf.  Anybody play Royal Porthcawl today or know if its playable?

Jeff

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Porthcawl had water issues today.  When the rain falls that hard for that long it takes time to drain.  However, with the crew at Celtic that could bail out bunkers and rubber the greens just ahead of play, once the rain eased I would bet the course could be ready very quickly.

Ciao   

[Adrian_Stiff]

Seriously. They deserve this disaster for playing on some manufactured parkland course in a place with so much great Links golf.  Anybody play Royal Porthcawl today or know if its playable?

Jeff

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Porthcawl had water issues today.  When the rain falls that hard for that long it takes time to drain.  However, with the crew at Celtic that could bail out bunkers and rubber the greens just ahead of play, once the rain eased I would bet the course could be ready very quickly.

Ciao   

I am not sure, we are close to Celtic its rained non stop and have just kept going all day, bunkers have water in and we have puddles in the hollows on the fairways a lot have given up but you would still have played both rounds at our place.

[Andrew Mitchell]

From Twitter (I can't figure out how to post it so you get the "twitter" view etc)

@thomasdunne: Called the pro shop at #royalporthcawl. Played golf "continuously" there today. Course currently dry. Links golf 4EVA.

[George Freeman]

Seriously. They deserve this disaster for playing on some manufactured parkland course in a place with so much great Links golf.  Anybody play Royal Porthcawl today or know if its playable?

Jeff

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Porthcawl had water issues today.  When the rain falls that hard for that long it takes time to drain.  However, with the crew at Celtic that could bail out bunkers and rubber the greens just ahead of play, once the rain eased I would bet the course could be ready very quickly.

Ciao   

I am not sure, we are close to Celtic its rained non stop and have just kept going all day, bunkers have water in and we have puddles in the hollows on the fairways a lot have given up but you would still have played both rounds at our place.

Adrian,

I assume "our place" is Royal Porthcawl?

[Adrian_Stiff]

No we are about 20 miles East of Celtic Manor. The Players Club.

[Jeff_Lewis]

Andrew,

Thank you for posting that tweet.  Made my day!

[Tom Dunne]

I swear, I didn't see this thread beforehand, I just happened to be wondering exactly the same thing as Jeff. Apparently Michael Bamberger was as well: http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,2022860,00.html

[Jeff_Lewis]

Great minds, Tom....

[Garland Bayley]

I swear, I didn't see this thread beforehand, I just happened to be wondering exactly the same thing as Jeff. Apparently Michael Bamberger was as well: http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,2022860,00.html

The was a blog article on Golf Digest . com yesterday that also noted that Porthcawl was playing all day.

Sean Arble, some links golf expert you are! 

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