Green Speeds - Stimp Readings

Swinging Looney

I've always wondered how the average club greens compare to the greens the pros get to see week in, week out which apparently are in the 9.5 to 11.5 stimpmeter region.

Anyone have any idea what the reading would be on an average Irish club course??

fullstop

About 7-8 I'd say

sweetswing

Swinging Looney wrote: »

I've always wondered how the average club greens compare to the greens the pros get to see week in, week out which apparently are in the 9.5 to 11.5 stimpmeter region.

Anyone have any idea what the reading would be on an average Irish club course??

there was a big deal made about the speed of our greens on captains day a couple of months back, they were clocked at 11.5 ,everyone was caught out by them . normaly i would say they run on average about 9.5 .

Swinging Looney

Wow! 11.5 is like Augusta!!!! Where is your home course if you don't mind me asking?

sweetswing

Swinging Looney wrote: »

Wow! 11.5 is like Augusta!!!! Where is your home course if you don't mind me asking?

i play out of castleknock ,well till the end of the year anyway.the greens there are usually in great condition , but that day they were un real . dont the greens in agusta get up to 13 or more ???

Sandwich

The USGA stimpmetered putting greens across the country to produce the following recommendations:
Slow greens: 4.5 feet
Medium greens: 6.5 feet
Fast greens: 8.5 feet

For the U.S. Open, they recommend:
Slow greens: 6.5 feet
Medium greens: 8.5 feet
Fast greens: 10.5 feet


You come across a lot of clubs claiming their greens are 9 or 10. Ive a feeling it aint so.

sweetswing

i believe stumpypeeps and abceire are green keepers ? if ya read this one lads any chance on sheading some light on the matter ?

fullstop

sweetswing wrote: »

there was a big deal made about the speed of our greens on captains day a couple of months back, they were clocked at 11.5 ,everyone was caught out by them . normaly i would say they run on average about 9.5 .

Absolutely no chance Castleknock run at 9.5 normally, anytime I've played there I've found them slow. The greens were running just under 9 at my home club for captain's this year and they were as quick as anything I've played in this country. Quickest I've putted on anywhere was 10.5 and they were scary fast.

Swinging Looney

Yeah I would imagine a lot of places will feel that they have quicker greens than they would actually turn out to be.

I played in Portmarnock Links a few weeks ago in one of the Titleist Tuesday Pro-Am's and the greens there were as fast as I have seen thus far. If my local course (which normally runs pretty quick for Medals etc, by average standards) is supposed to be in the 9 to 10 range then Portmarnock was easily 2 or 3 more. Much more likely that P'nock was about 10ish and my club more like 7.5 I would think!!

Incidentally, I played Glasson a few days later and the contrast was shocking. Some of the slowest greens I have come accross......

ThunderCat

Fastest greens ive ever played on were at the European Club. Absolute Lightning.