Bulldog Open tees off this Sunday
The South Course at Whitefish Lake Golf Club.
There are still a few morning spots open for teams in the Bulldog Open scramble this Sunday, June 18.
This is the premier event for Junior Golf and fun at Whitefish Lake Golf Club, now in its 39th year. Come join the fun with three of your friends and enjoy a great lunch, evening barbecue, a chance to win at vehicle thanks to Whitefish Ford and win an ATV sponsored by Jesco Power Sports in the putting contest.
Can’t play but want to help? We can use volunteers for various functions during the tournament. Call 862-5960 to enter your team or to volunteer to help with this great event.
USGA advisory service
The USGA regional Head Agronomist, Larry Gilhuly, will be on site Monday, June 20 to advise the board and green committee on how to further improve the course conditions at Whitefish Lake Golf Club.
WLGC utilizes this service every year as a means to examine our practices and how we might make improvements. Gilhuly visits approximately 100 golf courses every year in our region, so he brings a broad range of experiences to share with us and other golf courses. Every year we garner some new ideas to enhance the golf course and improve the playability plus possible new equipment or techniques to use to better maintain the facility.
Members are invited to attend the site visit if they wish on Monday, June 20 starting with a meeting at 7:30 a.m. in the lounge area of the club house and then tour various areas of the golf courses.
Green Speed
If you watch golf on TV, the announcers are always talking about how fast the greens are rolling and the effects of grain on the putts.
Most big tournaments try to get the green speeds at roughly 12 feet or better, but what does that mean?
If you roll a ball down an 18 inch long, 20 degree incline, onto the green then measure how far the ball rolls you can determine the speed of the greens using a device called a stimpmeter. What is most important is for courses to try to get the speeds somewhat consistent on all the greens including the practice green. The rate of speed is not near as important as the consistency. While most of us cannot really determine the real speeds, we do know if they are really fast or really slow.
This week’s U.S. Open at Oakmont C.C. will have extremely fast greens, probably around 13 on the stimpmeter, so pay attention to how short the back stoke is on nearly all the players putts.