[Ulrich Mayring]

Can't say the club, but the members were told: "These trees may look fine on the outside, but inside they are brittle and could collapse any minute. We need to remove them for safety reasons. And yes, we need to especially remove those that are close to any playing angles, because that is where golfers will walk!"

Ulrich

[Paul Gray]

Did they buy into it? I can almost hear the members bombarding me with "health and safety gone made" comments.  

[BHoover]

It may seem like a joke, but you definitely don't want to be on the receiving end of a tree when it comes down. When I played Timuquana in Jacksonville a couple years ago, my buddy and I were too close for comfort when a water oak came down near the 9th green. Luckily, we heard a sharp cracking sound and knew what it was so we were able to run away in time to then watch the whole thing come crashing down.

The super later told us that water oaks are particularly brittle during periods of dry weather. Growing up in the north, I had no idea such dangers existed. Our trees only seem to come down during tornadoes and ice storms.

[Chris_Hufnagel]

It may seem like a joke, but you definitely don't want to be on the receiving end of a tree when it comes down.

Agree, this happened a few years ago now at the Dunes Club - the victim was active in the Chicago golf scene and given the strong GCA-continegent from Chicago, I wouldn't be surprised if someone here knew him...

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-30/news/chi-chicago-man-killed-by-falling-tree-at-michigan-golf-course-20110930_1_top-golf-tournament-chicago-river-promotional-stunt

[David Royer]

Next Thursday our super and I are going out to target which trees will become victims of "winter kill".  It's a rare disease that only occurs in the winter months.  On the truly sad side we generally just blame everything on the ash borrer.

[Mike_Young]

http://whentreesattack.blogspot.com/2008/09/tennessee-golfers-killed-when-tree.html

This happened at Hermitage in Nashville a few years ago.

[Thomas Dai]

Pretty much any excuse for cutting down or heavily trimming a tree on a golf course is a good excuse.
ATB

[Alex Orens]

All trees are not created equal like golf courses. Here in the northeast poplars, all varieties, box alder, willow, silver maple are junk. Black locust and white pines are shallow rooted and will fall over in high winds when the ground is wet. Nice hardwoods should be left alone or trimmed at worst.

[Tim Martin]

All trees are not created equal like golf courses. Here in the northeast poplars, all varieties, box alder, willow, silver maple are junk. Black locust and white pines are shallow rooted and will fall over in high winds when the ground is wet. Nice hardwoods should be left alone or trimmed at worst.

When tree clearing programs are instituted in the northeast they wouldn't be very effective if all the "nice" hardwoods were spared. If you are looking to get sunlight on tees and greens as well as reclaim playing corridors and lines of sight then no particular species should get a pass.

[Charlie_Bell]

I lost a friend to a treefall in his driveway during superstorm Sandy.  He was outside trying to move a fallen limb when it happened. 

[Tom_Doak]

A member was killed at one of the clubs where I consult a few years back, right in front of the men's grill, when a tree limb by the putting green came down.  It can be a deadly serious problem.

[mike_beene]

Tree limb
fell and killed a spectator in the 1970s during Nelson at Preston Trail. Left of 4th fairway.I was on 5 and heard the crack.A still sunny day .

[Joel_Stewart]

Any superintendent who wishes to cut down trees should always use the safety issue argument.  It probably works 100% of the time.

A course I play a fair amount has a number of trees which are leaning and seem dangerous to me.  Here is one on the left side of the fairway which look ominous to me.

[Adam Clayman]

Joel, There's a fairway there? 

[Connor Dougherty]

I'll never forget playing in a brutal storm at Spyglass with branches flying all around me. When standing on the 13th green, a tree came down in the fairway behind me. My delirious happiness of playing through a storm of such magnitude quickly turned to serious concern, I was as far away from the clubhouse as I could be, without a cart, and a dead cell phone.

But the hard stuff didn't come down for a while  

[Bruce Katona]

That "winter ice damage" can cause many a tree to be gone when the members return in the Spring.

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