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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| Title: | Speed of the green |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 60, 1984, p. 102. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "During last year's playing season we received constant adverse comments as to the speed or pace of our bowling green. Since them we have attempted, as advised, to speed up the surface by autumn and spring scarification etc. Some of our bowlers have tried the surface already this spring and we are of the opinion that some improvement has been obtained, although others disagree. We were wondering if there is some objective method of determining the pace of the green so that arguments may be settled and so we can check as to whether maintenance work is producing the required result." |
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| Answer/Response: | "A reliable method of determining green speed exists which does not depend on any special equipment. All that is required is to bowl a wood straight across the green from side to side, standing as near as possible to one ditch and trying to stop the wood just short of the opposite ditch. The time taken for the wood to travel across the green should be timed, preferably with a stop watch, the process should then be repeated in the opposite direction and at right angles as many times as is convenient and an average time obtained. If a wood takes about 18 seconds to travel from ditch to ditch the green would be very fast by average club standards. 14 seconds is generally considered satisfactory, while for 12 seconds most players would complain that the green is excessively slow. The fact that the rate of travel of a wood over a slow green is faster than on the green with good surface pace may seem confusing but it should be realised that on a slow green the wood must be bowled much harder and faster to reach the opposite ditch. Although it moves faster in the first place it also decelerates at a much quicker rate." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Bowling green speed; Measurement; Membership relations; Recommendations; Surface quality
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Sports Turf Research Institute. 1984. Speed of the green. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 60:p. 102. |
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