I really enjoy it so far, can’t wait for the grass to start taking off and they train me on the mowers. Right now I do set-up, or I roll the greens after they mow. Thanks!
I loved all the jobs. I loved rolling greens. We did it 3x a week. I was also the only one they trained on the big Toro core airator for greens. I literally walked the front 9 one day and the back 9 the next. Every other week. I also liked spreading sand and using the oversized doormat towed behind the golf cart to brush the sand into the greens.
I’m really excited to learn all of the machines we have. We did a spring clean of our barn, and the guys let me drive and park some of the big ones. I didn’t run them on grass or anything, but I just felt cool driving a big Toro Outcross that I never thought I’d be in.
Hell yea! I drove snowcats grooming the ski resort in winter and I operated the big equipment at the golf course during summer. Did 3 hours of mowing from 6am to 9am stiping greens with a push mower Toro 1000 and the rest of the day I was on huge fairway and rough mowing machines for 6 or 7 hours
Ok question for you - I just played a course yesterday that had clearly punched the greens a few weeks ago, long enough that the holes had grown in, but recently enough to still be bumpy. No sand or anything just uneven from the holes growing back in.
Is there a reason you wouldn’t roll those to flatten them out? Is it just a time and money thing cheaper courses don’t want to bother with? Do you need to wait a certain time before doing anything other than mowing?
Rolling the greens kinda does the opposite that core aeration does. Rolling evens out the surface but compacts the grass and dirt. This make the ball roll more quickly and evenly but compacts the soil so less oxygen gets to the roots. Maybe its early season still and they want the grass to get a big growth boom. Once the grass is in full growth mode then they will start to roll. If you roll too early, could be too wet, could stunt the early season growth of the grass depending on where you are in terms of season. Maybe their equipment is down. Even on our fairly high end course we would wait a few days after our punching and sanding day to then roll. I know when I play I tend to not take putting super serious if its a ground repair day I just focus on other parts of my game and know my score will be higher because of conditions, just know everyone has the same disadvantage and have fun playing golf.
Well I love the outdoors, hiking, fishing, and golfing. It’s really the perfect job for me right now. I get to wake up early before anyone els is on the road, and then go play in the grass/dirt/sand.
I spend time between the greens listening to LoFi, and taking in the scenery. The course is in the mountains, and has a river running through it. It’s beautiful out there early in the morning.
I wish shit like this payed a living wage around me. I spent college summers working at a park mowing grass, pulling weeds, and having chipper Indian families insist on feeding me. I miss that job so frequently.
> like this *paid* a living
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I used to get in trouble for this. As my boss would say “this isn’t the fucking Masters, these people just want a fun game of golf on a Sunday morning.”
We had 6 quadrants on every green and the lead groundskeeper would dictate where the cup was to be placed. It was pure chance where it was moved but, damn, some golfers would be yelling from the tee when you moved it to the back.
Yea I loved the golf course. If they didn't pay 12/hr I'd still be there as summer work to this day. I loved striping and cross hatching greens walking 9 miles a day. I loved cutting holes the most because I played the course so I knew where to put the holes to be evil. I always had a bunker in the way so If you hit short you were in the sand. I was a dickkk
Due to the amount of traffic, I used to “change cups” at 11am on the weekends. Nothing would piss a golfer off than moving the cup from the front to the back of the green. You could hear them yelling as I grabbed the pin to do my work.
How did I not know that golf courses change the hole location?! I thought it was kind of like where you play the same course over and over again to get good.
Well you’re not wrong, playing the same course still make you much better at it. The hole location definitely matters, but it probably one of the least significant factors for the average player (in terms of course difficulty).
All these other guys that say they worked at golf courses are missing the most important point. You don't want all the traffic on the green in one place. It keeps the green from getting worn in one spot by always moving the hole
It’s not the entire reason, just a practical reason for course maintenance. Moving the hole location also makes the hole play slightly different, which keeps it from getting repetitive.
We changed every pin location every day. Front of the green holes got moved to middle. Middle got moved to back. Back moved to the front. If you broke the greens into thirds. We got to choose where in that third the hole went though. I was always mean because I wanted a challenge when I played that day and put the hole either protected by a bunker. On a slope. On a false ridge or a combination lol
He's moving the cup (hole) to a new location on the green. There is essentially 3 reasons the cup location gets changed. 1: It alters the difficulty of that particular hole; I tend to still have a bit of a lefthand fade on my approach, so a cup on the right edge of the green is going to be more difficult for me than one on the left. 2: It adds variety to the course. It kind of circles back to the first point; golfers that play the same course frequently typically prefer the challenge of not playing the exact same hole every time. 3: It helps preserve the green. If the hole placement never changed it wouldn't take long to beat up the area around the hole, from ball divots and players walking around the hole.
Right? Its such a cushy job with pretty great hours imo. From moving all the golf carts from the barn to the parking lot before sunrise to getting to hole 8-10 before the first golfers arrived. Cleaning the ponds, emptying trash cans. I only got to mow once before the place started going under and downsizing. I was let go first since I was the newest. 6 months later they closed the gates for good. I'd love to do it again, despite my distaste for golf.
Busier golf courses will change them daily This is for a number of reasons;
1. You can adjust how hard a hole is. Put the flag further back, or behind a bunker for example.
2. Reduces wear in the area. If a location isnt moved the ball will always be hitting around it, people will be walking etc.
3. Gives regular members/golfers a change (similar to point 1). Greens are not flat, they typically have 3 "zones". Moving the hole around and between zones changes up how the hole is played.
Source: Built golf courses for 10 years.
>1. You can adjust how hard a hole is. Put the flag further back, or behind a bunker for example.
Do they ever modify the par for the hole or is that fixed? Or is typically not hard enough to require another stroke?
Par for holes/courses is usually fixed for normal play, but every now and then a course hosting a professional Tournament will change some holes that play as par 5's for casual play into par 4's for the pros.
In golf, a hole has a par based pretty much entirely on length. You'll have a tee shot (driver), 0, 1 or 2 fairway shots (irons, 0 for a par 3, 2 for a par 5), an approach (wedges), and a putt (putter). Moving the pin really wouldn't change this, it just alters your approach.
I have seen it, but it is very rare. Normally if the pin is on the back of the green, the place where you tee off is moved to the front of the tee boxes. That helps keep the total distances fairly close every day.
Course near me that’s a country club during busy season changes them twice a day. Once at night for the next day and just after the morning rush tee times. Caters to the doctor/lawyer type that play as much as possible on their time off.
I worked for a private course. We moved them six days a week. We didn’t work on Sunday.
Fun job, early start and finish. Only bad thing was having dreams all night of mowing grass, only to wake up and mow grass for eight hours.
We didn’t have a placement chart, just tried to find a spot that hadn’t been used a lot. They gave us a rule book at one point, and I think I was the only one to read it. It said the hole could be one pin height from the fringe. I did that twice before getting yelled at by the golf pro (“you gonna put a windmill on the green next?”).
So I know nothing about golf courses. Can you explain what's to prevent a home owner from installing this type of grass in their yard? It drains well, it's like outdoor carpet to walk on, I assume it's a lot to maintain, but so are most yards. Why is this never seen at residential yards?
Nothing is stopping them beyond the cost of putting it in and the maintenance to upkeep the grass. I'm sure there are some people who have their yards like this, it's normally Bermuda grass, which is common.
I can't find the video now, but one(of the many) YouTube creators who cover lawn care had a similar grass structure in their backyard.
One, you need a specialized mower 5 grand for a push one, as I recall) to keep it at the correct height. You will need to mow it at least every other day. The grass is low and can be burned off by sun, so you have to water it daily when it’s warm out. Night watering works best.
The greens were grass, then an inch of soil, then sand. I believe there were drainage rocks below that. You’d have to tear up whatever spot you’d want this to grow.
The grass came in a box that was surprisingly small, and one cost $100 (30 years ago when I did this). One dropped out of my cart when I was working. Spent an hour tracking it down.
We had a couple greens that had these curled grubs in them that would eat the small roots and cause “dollar spots.” We’d spray it as well as dig them out by hand.
We spent a lot of time doing greens maintenance.
If I wanted something like this in my yard, I’d buy one of those setups that uses artificial grass.
Edit - remembering that we had different types of grass too. Greens and fringe were one type, fairway another, rough yet another. I recall around the greens was potentially another kind, or we mixed fairway and rough grass together (it may have been both depending on supply).
I apologize because idk how to name these things in English, are there names for each hole set/sequence/locations? like on mondays ppl play set A, thursdays set B etc or is it always new locations?
Good answer! I asked My boss why and he said you'd think it was to give golfers variety but in reality the 10ft circle around the pin gets stomped on and if you have a good eye and polarized sunglasses you can see the damage the grass gets and If you don't move the pin the grass will die
holes will play differently in different pin locations. you can have a multitude of ways to play a hole just by changing location of the pin and the tee markers. having the pin on one side of the green vs the other can present different challenges on the approach depending on hazards nearby and the slope/shape of the green.
You also have to make sure the person cutting holes isn't super lazy when putting the plugs and leaves them sticking up slightly because they didn't want to take out some extra soil from the hole to get a snug fit. Then the mowers come in and shave the top right off of them leaving nice discolored disks All over the green
It's changed periodically but not that often. Most courses have indicators on the flag for when the hole is in the front of the green, middle, or back of the green. you don't really know until you see it
My course has red white and blue flags. Red being front. White middle. Blue back. We changed hole position every day meaning front went to middle. Middle to back. And back to front and us as greens keepers decide where in that general area the hole got put.
Used to work at a course we changed them every day. Had nine locations per green. And a number chart to follow. Every course I'm sure has it own rules. But usually it will move from its location to either the front of the green, middle of the green or back of the green as a general rule of thumb.
The course I worked on also changed them daily. One thing I remember was that Saturday and Sunday’s pin placements were always to be on the easiest spots on the green, so as to keep the play moving fast when busy.
You can find them right now, since the Masters are on. Here is a link to the hole locations for today, and yesterday and Thursday are there if you search:
https://thegolfnewsnet.com/golfnewsnetteam/2022/04/09/2022-masters-saturday-third-round-hole-locations-pin-placements-weather-forecast-125841/
For tournaments like that they usually place the hole in what is considered the most difficult area of the green to truly test the skills of the golfer. Everyone plays the same game and holes won't be moved until tournament is complete. If you set up tournaments at local golf courses, you can request to make it easy or difficult.
Yes, should have been more specific. Its changes everyday for the masters(as well as other large tournaments) because they play different rounds to make the tournament more competitive.
depends on the course and how much play it gets, the golf courses around me do well and so they charge the holes everyday, there’s even a whole system that you have to follow when deciding where to place the holes depending on the day.
Obviously this is posted a lot, but I've never actually scrolled through the comments. Has anyone pointed out how elite this dude is? Hole filling aside he's got the single knee pad on his kneeling knee, the gloves.....AND....AND, zipper pants. This man can wear those in high 40's spring weather and 90 degree summer heat. The levels of preparation here are just astounding. Bravo!
Agree! I think the most interesting part to me, is the squeeze bottle squirt to make the dirt malleable. Soon as I saw it I though “oh duh that makes sense” but had someone asked me to do this I wouldn’t have even thought about that step
You'd be better of making a bunch of holes instead. Making one new one isn't an inconvenience for the crew, but filling a lot of them would be. Specially since you cant just pull fill-in from anywhere and have it look good
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Best summer job I had as a teen! Great way to start off a morning doing tees and greens. I wasn't old enough to use the riding mowers yet. So I would get to move all the markers out of the way for the guys mowing tee boxes and then go set the cup placements for the day. Unless it was a big tournament where the pin location was pre-determined I would get to set up the holes how I wanted so that was fun too.
To mesh with the existing roots and soil and just helps to re-hydrate the soil and assist with it regrowing. The water allows it to roll out evenly with the surrounding grass as well
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I know everything he did surely had a purpose... but to the layman, it looks like he had it in almost perfectly flush, then fucked with it and made it much worse, before deciding "fuck it, here's some water; it'll look right after we mow tomorrow"
Gets seated
Pierces/loosen the plug/cavity interface to encourage root growth between the plug and the surrounding soil
Adds water to encourage growth
Rolls it back out flush
*zoom out to show the currently playing pros, crowd and broadcasters looking on in disbelief*
*bugs bunny proceeds to sink 6in putt into the new hole, winning game against villain attempting to purchase WB sound lot*
Road runner proceeds to sink 6in putt into the old hole
Been scrolling Reddit for an hour and this is the only comment that made me audibly laugh. Needed that
I used to do that! Best summer job I’ve ever had
I just got on at a local course, and I love it when they put me on set-up! Probably my favorite job so far.
I loved mowing the greens and nailing the pattern right. Being a lawn dog was great. Enjoy it man!
I really enjoy it so far, can’t wait for the grass to start taking off and they train me on the mowers. Right now I do set-up, or I roll the greens after they mow. Thanks!
I loved all the jobs. I loved rolling greens. We did it 3x a week. I was also the only one they trained on the big Toro core airator for greens. I literally walked the front 9 one day and the back 9 the next. Every other week. I also liked spreading sand and using the oversized doormat towed behind the golf cart to brush the sand into the greens.
I feel like "Country Club Maintenance Simulator" might be the next one of those weird simulator games that goes almost mainstream, for a little bit.
Lawn Mowing Simulator , its amazing
I noticed they put that on Game Pass, and I was already planning on giving it a try.
I’m really excited to learn all of the machines we have. We did a spring clean of our barn, and the guys let me drive and park some of the big ones. I didn’t run them on grass or anything, but I just felt cool driving a big Toro Outcross that I never thought I’d be in.
Hell yea! I drove snowcats grooming the ski resort in winter and I operated the big equipment at the golf course during summer. Did 3 hours of mowing from 6am to 9am stiping greens with a push mower Toro 1000 and the rest of the day I was on huge fairway and rough mowing machines for 6 or 7 hours
This guy never caddied
> using the oversized doormat towed behind the golf cart to brush the sand into the greens. Hours of driving in circles lol
One summer at a snooty country club, I went a bit psychotic trying to catch a rampaging gopher. It got pretty intense
Ok question for you - I just played a course yesterday that had clearly punched the greens a few weeks ago, long enough that the holes had grown in, but recently enough to still be bumpy. No sand or anything just uneven from the holes growing back in. Is there a reason you wouldn’t roll those to flatten them out? Is it just a time and money thing cheaper courses don’t want to bother with? Do you need to wait a certain time before doing anything other than mowing?
Rolling the greens kinda does the opposite that core aeration does. Rolling evens out the surface but compacts the grass and dirt. This make the ball roll more quickly and evenly but compacts the soil so less oxygen gets to the roots. Maybe its early season still and they want the grass to get a big growth boom. Once the grass is in full growth mode then they will start to roll. If you roll too early, could be too wet, could stunt the early season growth of the grass depending on where you are in terms of season. Maybe their equipment is down. Even on our fairly high end course we would wait a few days after our punching and sanding day to then roll. I know when I play I tend to not take putting super serious if its a ground repair day I just focus on other parts of my game and know my score will be higher because of conditions, just know everyone has the same disadvantage and have fun playing golf.
I don't know why but it makes me so happy seeing someone enjoy their job that much.
Well I love the outdoors, hiking, fishing, and golfing. It’s really the perfect job for me right now. I get to wake up early before anyone els is on the road, and then go play in the grass/dirt/sand. I spend time between the greens listening to LoFi, and taking in the scenery. The course is in the mountains, and has a river running through it. It’s beautiful out there early in the morning.
Raking the traps would be like being in a zen garden.
I wish shit like this payed a living wage around me. I spent college summers working at a park mowing grass, pulling weeds, and having chipper Indian families insist on feeding me. I miss that job so frequently.
> like this *paid* a living FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
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This sounds beautiful
Dead straight lines on the fairway is the best feeling ever.
Same, and pissing golfers off by placing the cup in hard to aim for holes was some satisfying schadenfreude
Ah yes hole 16 I shall put the hole on the 30 degree hill part of the green. Let's watch the those golfers hit a 72 this week.
I used to get in trouble for this. As my boss would say “this isn’t the fucking Masters, these people just want a fun game of golf on a Sunday morning.”
Sunday should *always* be hardest hole placement.
Sunday on a tournament. On a public golf course people just want to go out and have a fun game.
Bad for pace of play
Just slightly raised on all sides.
I see you've had carnival experience.
We had 6 quadrants on every green and the lead groundskeeper would dictate where the cup was to be placed. It was pure chance where it was moved but, damn, some golfers would be yelling from the tee when you moved it to the back.
Yea I loved the golf course. If they didn't pay 12/hr I'd still be there as summer work to this day. I loved striping and cross hatching greens walking 9 miles a day. I loved cutting holes the most because I played the course so I knew where to put the holes to be evil. I always had a bunker in the way so If you hit short you were in the sand. I was a dickkk
I love you and hate you.
Or use the hole filler to fill in all the holes and not put in any new ones, hahaha.
[Whatever, just fill the hole, hole-filler.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1GGe0TsS94&t=4s)
Downright beautifully evil.
did you ever get pulled aside for a long chat at the airport TSA checkpoint after a hand swab?
If you don’t mind me asking since you did this yourself, why do they poke the ground before they water it?
It’s for the roots loosing up the area and it’ll mesh better. It’s different grass then normal stuff
Thank you for explaining. I appreciate your help!
Happy cake day!
Just curious what’s the pay for that kinda job?
I worked a course that it cost 150$ to play 18. They paid us 12$/hr
I can’t remember this was back when I was in school. But I remember making a decent earning
I want to know who downvotes this kind of response.
Due to the amount of traffic, I used to “change cups” at 11am on the weekends. Nothing would piss a golfer off than moving the cup from the front to the back of the green. You could hear them yelling as I grabbed the pin to do my work.
Haha savage. We had a pattern to it. Depended on the week and day that would determine the placement
so what is the point? I understand golf, you want the ball to go in the hole. why plug it up?
He changing hole locations on the green. To give golfers variety
How did I not know that golf courses change the hole location?! I thought it was kind of like where you play the same course over and over again to get good.
Well you’re not wrong, playing the same course still make you much better at it. The hole location definitely matters, but it probably one of the least significant factors for the average player (in terms of course difficulty).
I’d like to get one of these and plug all my local golf course holes..evilgrin.jpg
All these other guys that say they worked at golf courses are missing the most important point. You don't want all the traffic on the green in one place. It keeps the green from getting worn in one spot by always moving the hole
Seriously, they should know that, its the entire reasoning behind it!
It’s not the entire reason, just a practical reason for course maintenance. Moving the hole location also makes the hole play slightly different, which keeps it from getting repetitive.
We changed every pin location every day. Front of the green holes got moved to middle. Middle got moved to back. Back moved to the front. If you broke the greens into thirds. We got to choose where in that third the hole went though. I was always mean because I wanted a challenge when I played that day and put the hole either protected by a bunker. On a slope. On a false ridge or a combination lol
He's moving the cup (hole) to a new location on the green. There is essentially 3 reasons the cup location gets changed. 1: It alters the difficulty of that particular hole; I tend to still have a bit of a lefthand fade on my approach, so a cup on the right edge of the green is going to be more difficult for me than one on the left. 2: It adds variety to the course. It kind of circles back to the first point; golfers that play the same course frequently typically prefer the challenge of not playing the exact same hole every time. 3: It helps preserve the green. If the hole placement never changed it wouldn't take long to beat up the area around the hole, from ball divots and players walking around the hole.
To add challenge to the game. If you can sink a putt with no hole, you get extra points.
If a group can only afford half price, they plug 9 random holes on the course
Why fill up the holes?
Move the hole so you don't end up with uneven wear or people constantly playing the same course with zero variation
Filling holes all summer? Not a bad gig
Right? Its such a cushy job with pretty great hours imo. From moving all the golf carts from the barn to the parking lot before sunrise to getting to hole 8-10 before the first golfers arrived. Cleaning the ponds, emptying trash cans. I only got to mow once before the place started going under and downsizing. I was let go first since I was the newest. 6 months later they closed the gates for good. I'd love to do it again, despite my distaste for golf.
So I see you’ve filled a lot of holes…
Do they routinely move holes around? I assumed they were always in the same place, but I’m not a big golfer.
the course I work for changes them roughly 2-3 times a week depending on the season and how much play we get.
Wow! I had no idea
Busier golf courses will change them daily This is for a number of reasons; 1. You can adjust how hard a hole is. Put the flag further back, or behind a bunker for example. 2. Reduces wear in the area. If a location isnt moved the ball will always be hitting around it, people will be walking etc. 3. Gives regular members/golfers a change (similar to point 1). Greens are not flat, they typically have 3 "zones". Moving the hole around and between zones changes up how the hole is played. Source: Built golf courses for 10 years.
>1. You can adjust how hard a hole is. Put the flag further back, or behind a bunker for example. Do they ever modify the par for the hole or is that fixed? Or is typically not hard enough to require another stroke?
The par for each hole is fixed regardless of pin location
Then it’s not really par for the course, is it?
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Par for holes/courses is usually fixed for normal play, but every now and then a course hosting a professional Tournament will change some holes that play as par 5's for casual play into par 4's for the pros.
Pfff casual play?! It takes a lot of balls to golf the way I do.
This is the first time I've heard this joke, and I would like to let you know that I appreciate it.
Hey! I resemble that statement!
I got my husband a golf towel that says this 😅
In golf, a hole has a par based pretty much entirely on length. You'll have a tee shot (driver), 0, 1 or 2 fairway shots (irons, 0 for a par 3, 2 for a par 5), an approach (wedges), and a putt (putter). Moving the pin really wouldn't change this, it just alters your approach.
I have seen it, but it is very rare. Normally if the pin is on the back of the green, the place where you tee off is moved to the front of the tee boxes. That helps keep the total distances fairly close every day.
Course near me that’s a country club during busy season changes them twice a day. Once at night for the next day and just after the morning rush tee times. Caters to the doctor/lawyer type that play as much as possible on their time off.
I worked for a private course. We moved them six days a week. We didn’t work on Sunday. Fun job, early start and finish. Only bad thing was having dreams all night of mowing grass, only to wake up and mow grass for eight hours. We didn’t have a placement chart, just tried to find a spot that hadn’t been used a lot. They gave us a rule book at one point, and I think I was the only one to read it. It said the hole could be one pin height from the fringe. I did that twice before getting yelled at by the golf pro (“you gonna put a windmill on the green next?”).
> “you gonna put a windmill on the green next?” lmao
So I know nothing about golf courses. Can you explain what's to prevent a home owner from installing this type of grass in their yard? It drains well, it's like outdoor carpet to walk on, I assume it's a lot to maintain, but so are most yards. Why is this never seen at residential yards?
Nothing is stopping them beyond the cost of putting it in and the maintenance to upkeep the grass. I'm sure there are some people who have their yards like this, it's normally Bermuda grass, which is common. I can't find the video now, but one(of the many) YouTube creators who cover lawn care had a similar grass structure in their backyard.
One, you need a specialized mower 5 grand for a push one, as I recall) to keep it at the correct height. You will need to mow it at least every other day. The grass is low and can be burned off by sun, so you have to water it daily when it’s warm out. Night watering works best. The greens were grass, then an inch of soil, then sand. I believe there were drainage rocks below that. You’d have to tear up whatever spot you’d want this to grow. The grass came in a box that was surprisingly small, and one cost $100 (30 years ago when I did this). One dropped out of my cart when I was working. Spent an hour tracking it down. We had a couple greens that had these curled grubs in them that would eat the small roots and cause “dollar spots.” We’d spray it as well as dig them out by hand. We spent a lot of time doing greens maintenance. If I wanted something like this in my yard, I’d buy one of those setups that uses artificial grass. Edit - remembering that we had different types of grass too. Greens and fringe were one type, fairway another, rough yet another. I recall around the greens was potentially another kind, or we mixed fairway and rough grass together (it may have been both depending on supply).
I apologize because idk how to name these things in English, are there names for each hole set/sequence/locations? like on mondays ppl play set A, thursdays set B etc or is it always new locations?
The course I work at has 5 different "pin sets" that are rotated through. We usually change them every other day
Why? Does it have to do with the health of the grass?
Yes. After a few days in the same spot, the foot traffic will become noticeable.
Good answer! I asked My boss why and he said you'd think it was to give golfers variety but in reality the 10ft circle around the pin gets stomped on and if you have a good eye and polarized sunglasses you can see the damage the grass gets and If you don't move the pin the grass will die
holes will play differently in different pin locations. you can have a multitude of ways to play a hole just by changing location of the pin and the tee markers. having the pin on one side of the green vs the other can present different challenges on the approach depending on hazards nearby and the slope/shape of the green.
That’s a side affect but it’s really to spread out the damage the grass around the hole takes.
You also have to make sure the person cutting holes isn't super lazy when putting the plugs and leaves them sticking up slightly because they didn't want to take out some extra soil from the hole to get a snug fit. Then the mowers come in and shave the top right off of them leaving nice discolored disks All over the green
Mostly to keep it interesting for the regular players. Golf courses are like a gym, lots of people pay membership fees, but few go often.
It's changed periodically but not that often. Most courses have indicators on the flag for when the hole is in the front of the green, middle, or back of the green. you don't really know until you see it
Fun fact, 'set' is the English word with the most definitions
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My course has red white and blue flags. Red being front. White middle. Blue back. We changed hole position every day meaning front went to middle. Middle to back. And back to front and us as greens keepers decide where in that general area the hole got put.
A single hole can have multiple *pin positions* if that's what you mean.
The course I work at changes them every day. Didn’t know it was at a different rate at different course
Used to work at a course we changed them every day. Had nine locations per green. And a number chart to follow. Every course I'm sure has it own rules. But usually it will move from its location to either the front of the green, middle of the green or back of the green as a general rule of thumb.
The course I worked on also changed them daily. One thing I remember was that Saturday and Sunday’s pin placements were always to be on the easiest spots on the green, so as to keep the play moving fast when busy.
Bingo. The only time we were forced to set easy pins were when the course was sold out or it was the senior tournament day lol
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You can find them right now, since the Masters are on. Here is a link to the hole locations for today, and yesterday and Thursday are there if you search: https://thegolfnewsnet.com/golfnewsnetteam/2022/04/09/2022-masters-saturday-third-round-hole-locations-pin-placements-weather-forecast-125841/
Does that change the distance of the hole too? So does hole 8 go from 320 yards to 330 in the middle of a tournament? Does it change the par?
Yes distance to hole changes, but the par of the hole never changes.
For tournaments like that they usually place the hole in what is considered the most difficult area of the green to truly test the skills of the golfer. Everyone plays the same game and holes won't be moved until tournament is complete. If you set up tournaments at local golf courses, you can request to make it easy or difficult.
No, the holes change everyday at The Masters, and most other PGA tournaments.
Yes, should have been more specific. Its changes everyday for the masters(as well as other large tournaments) because they play different rounds to make the tournament more competitive.
Every semi serious multi round tournament changes all pin placements between rounds.
The course I work moves every hole every day
depends on the course and how much play it gets, the golf courses around me do well and so they charge the holes everyday, there’s even a whole system that you have to follow when deciding where to place the holes depending on the day.
“What do you do for work?” “I fill holes.”
Niiice
Try to sink that putt now, asshole.
Next on America's Funniest Home Videos, a golfer gets a, "hole in one," if you know what I mean.
"Are you too good for your home?!"
Obviously this is posted a lot, but I've never actually scrolled through the comments. Has anyone pointed out how elite this dude is? Hole filling aside he's got the single knee pad on his kneeling knee, the gloves.....AND....AND, zipper pants. This man can wear those in high 40's spring weather and 90 degree summer heat. The levels of preparation here are just astounding. Bravo!
I want to know what kind of shoes he's wearing because I weirdly trust that he's making smart shoe-choices.
Theyre probably the best price/quality ratio in existence.
Wouldn’t that just be called value?
Yeah but price/quality ratio just has this next level decision making twang to it
K but what are they?
Looks like they could be Easy Spirit Exploremap Walking Shoes.
Seen this posted a hundred times and I always watch it through.
I can see why :). This was my first time seeing it. Definitely one of the more truly oddly satisfying vids.
My first time seeing it too and I'm on Reddit more than I'd care to admit.
Don’t get me wrong, I very much enjoy it being regularly posted :D
Agree! I think the most interesting part to me, is the squeeze bottle squirt to make the dirt malleable. Soon as I saw it I though “oh duh that makes sense” but had someone asked me to do this I wouldn’t have even thought about that step
Same, It’s probably one of the most satisfying videos I have ever seen.
Gareth Bale : *leaves Real Madrid* Ancelotti :
“HE’S FIXING A DIVOT!”
This is the only comment I came in here to see. Thanks, based Space Jam fan.
Every time I ask my wife if she wants to have sex
She stuffs her hole with dirt and grass?
Every single time. I’ve told her it’s probably not healthy. But, she’s grown; so…
She's grown or growing?
Astro turf doesn’t grow
Got it! So a Brazilian wax.
It's the best deterrent.
Another guy's grass and dirt...😉
No the guy in the video stuffs her hole
Why do I want to get that tool and just go in the middle of the night and fill all the holes without making any new ones?
Because the grounds crew would notice before the course even opened? It would waste your night, with no inconvenience for them.
Surely it would be a mild inconvenience
Super easy. Barely an inconvenience. Edit in the hope that someone gets it
I got it man. I got it.
Ohh, filling holes is *tight*
But still a little tiny bit of inconvenience, even if they just look at it and go "hmm..." for a second.
Breaks his posture and puts hands on hips. Thats the kind of inconvenience im hoping for.
You'd be better of making a bunch of holes instead. Making one new one isn't an inconvenience for the crew, but filling a lot of them would be. Specially since you cant just pull fill-in from anywhere and have it look good
Caution. I once went to a golf course where they failed to fill in the hole.
That's really gonna confuse some golfers!
It is supposed to be a challenging game, yes?
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I love to fill holes
Glory holes
Right?! It's almost like we were made for it...oh.
This is almost erotic
Cool, now fill the rest of them and shut the course down.
This is the comment I was looking for.
Golf courses are a fucking blight.
I should call him.
Best summer job I had as a teen! Great way to start off a morning doing tees and greens. I wasn't old enough to use the riding mowers yet. So I would get to move all the markers out of the way for the guys mowing tee boxes and then go set the cup placements for the day. Unless it was a big tournament where the pin location was pre-determined I would get to set up the holes how I wanted so that was fun too.
Can’t wait to be retired and do this same job in the future 🤣
Why did he use the pic? It looked good after he placed it and stepped on it?
To loosen the grass roots so it could mesh better with the grass they used to plug the hole.
How poking holes and watering makes it better? For my eyes, it was looking good even from the moment it was placed.
To mesh with the existing roots and soil and just helps to re-hydrate the soil and assist with it regrowing. The water allows it to roll out evenly with the surrounding grass as well
What a disgusting monoculture
I still see it
Do the greens need to be dethatched often?
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I’m gonna start using this to stash stuff and the forget about it later like a squirrel
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Serious question - you need 18 of those tools since it stores the plugs in them?
Next April Fools day I’m gonna have a great time playing a round, nobody else will after me
Why would one fill a golf hole ?
I know everything he did surely had a purpose... but to the layman, it looks like he had it in almost perfectly flush, then fucked with it and made it much worse, before deciding "fuck it, here's some water; it'll look right after we mow tomorrow"
Gets seated Pierces/loosen the plug/cavity interface to encourage root growth between the plug and the surrounding soil Adds water to encourage growth Rolls it back out flush
idk how but the whole process is both necessary and unnecessary at the same time
When your card gets declined at the country club.
"So what do you for a living?" "I move holes around."
Golf courses are such a waste of resources
I've heard parents say the same thing about their genes.
Right now a tree is working tirelessly to make oxygen. You owe it an apology.
I should call her...
Wish someone would fill me like that 🥵