Winter Rules

Hi, My golf club this year have insisted on the use of a portable fairway matt or teeing up on all areas of the golf course including rough.  I find this a major step too far but just wondered what other club members experience through the winter months?

I have a portable mat...

Use it before every putt...it faces the east...

NWOT.......

one of the clubs close to me insisted on temp tees and greens. so much so that a trickly little 108 par 3 was only 40 yds after they brought that in.

left and got my money back. talk about over the top!

Some of the clubs around here are a bit anal about their fairways and have the mat or teeing up rule.  Backfired a bit with me last year though, teed up on a fairway for my driver and dropped it on the green from 200yds from a height of about 300ft!  It was plugged so deep that no part of the ball was visible.

how did you know it was there then???

Thanks for the replies guys.  I can feel a letter to the green committee coming on! I've basically paid for 5 months membership that i havent used at all due to the over protection of the course in my view.

A player of your ability, Mark, should be at a proper golf club, of which there are many in this counttry.

My local track only requests you use your common sense during the winter. Tend not to lift the ball, clean it etc during winter unless its plugged or caked in mud. Find this helps when the rule does no longer apply as your used to playing of a not so good lie anyway. My course has very good drainage, winter tees on par 3's only, normal greens all year. Always immaculate. Credit to the green keepers for all the work they have done over last 3 or 4 years to transform the course into what it is today. Members are proud of it and do their bit to help by respecting green keepers signs and using common sense during winter.

Fair comment! the course is excellent during the summer to be fair but due to a lack of finance for a decent amount of greens staff to look after the course in the winter, they instead implement these rules that make the course unplayable in my opinion.

 Im afraid its a case of a club thats run by the boys, for the boys.  They dont really encourage any visitors to play due to the fear of the course being busy when they want to play!  I guess it wont change until all the old guard pass away!

Most of the courses in my area have allowed trolleys all over winter, most have had no temporary tees or greens and no rules on teeing up on the fairway..tho we do play pick and place on the fairway!!!

We must be blessed!