Brian Phillips
As architects Graeme and I have to make many decisions throughout our designs of holes and golf courses. One of the most important decisions or recommendations is the choice of grass on greens.
After reading the Stimpmeter thread I am curious what is important to you guys. If we seed 'krypvein' grass of the sort A4 etc then we have to design our greens flatter. We cannot have any pinnable areas with a fall of more than 2.5%. You get fast greens with this type of grass but it means we have to design greens that have less rolls in them which also means less fun (in my opinion)
However, if we seed a 'rødsvingel' (fescue) mix then we can increase the the slopes to nearly 4% which creates more fall off and more dramatic greens. The minus to this would be slower greens as these type of greens cannot be cut too short because of the slopes.
Links courses normally have this fescue mix in their greens and therefore many links greens are very undulated and I love them.
What do you prefer and why?
Brian Phillips M.Sc.
Golf Course Architect
Niblick Golf Design
Moss
After reading the Stimpmeter thread I am curious what is important to you guys. If we seed 'krypvein' grass of the sort A4 etc then we have to design our greens flatter. We cannot have any pinnable areas with a fall of more than 2.5%. You get fast greens with this type of grass but it means we have to design greens that have less rolls in them which also means less fun (in my opinion)
However, if we seed a 'rødsvingel' (fescue) mix then we can increase the the slopes to nearly 4% which creates more fall off and more dramatic greens. The minus to this would be slower greens as these type of greens cannot be cut too short because of the slopes.
Links courses normally have this fescue mix in their greens and therefore many links greens are very undulated and I love them.
What do you prefer and why?
Brian Phillips M.Sc.
Golf Course Architect
Niblick Golf Design
Moss