[Tom_Doak]

Quite a lot of Braids greens on his more rural and rustic courses, the likes of Perranporth and Welshpool for example, often have lips at the sides and rear.
Would these, and maybe the Mack’ green fronts Tom mentions above, be to keep moisture/water on the putting surfaces back in early pre-irrigation times as well as to prevent slow moving balls rolling off the greens?

I suspect the main reason was to keep shots on the greens, when you've got an elevated green and a very firm surface [no irrigation].  Keeping moisture on the putting surface is not so effective unless the green is a bowl; if the green is draining toward the edge and you put a ridge there, you just get a wetter spot along the edge.  I suppose it's possible they would do that sometimes, easier to grow grass there and keep the ball on the green per my previous sentence.

[Thomas Dai]

Thanks Tom. The slight bowl effect is what I was thinking with the small lips forming the edges of the bowl especially somewhere sandy or windy or where the sloop is such that moisture is likely to run off.
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