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Woodenbridge (too tight) and Rathsallagh yesterday, hot as bejasus

Kevinmarkham wrote: »

Great pic of Woodenbridge's par three over the river. Perfect green with an outer ring of burnt brown.

It was brown everywhere especially the first 9, way too tight to hold any fairway in firm conditions. Tee boxes and greens perfect though, some surrounds very brown.

PS Picked up your Destination Golf Scotland book, looking forward to reading it out the back shortly

bailey99 wrote: »

What sort of condition is rathsallagh in since it reopened?

I would have said perfect as I played it late last year but they have rerouted which threw me a bit.
The old 7th in now (still) a par 3 from the opposite side of the green and now number 11, so they have essentially eliminated what was a mad walk from the old 1st to the old 2nd and also incorporated switching the 9's around but also moving some holes out of the order they were previously.
The 1st hole is now Index 1 which to me is an absolute no-no, imagine going into an extra hole in a matchplay, it's automatically going to give the higher handicap golfer a shot on that hole.

Anyhow conditions...fairways were fine, greens were fine, green surrounds were okay with some browning, firm (but not hard) everywhere so all good.
They must not have any sprinklers on the raised tee boxes as they are 100% burnt through and rock hard brown, no impact on the game though just very slippy on them so care required.

Golden Brown, texture like....

Arklow this AM

Carne, as I describe it, it's Links on steroids