While not many spectators receive valuable information regarding the maintenance that occurred during this week's tournament, Chris and I are fortunate of knowing key people involved in tournament set-up for a lot of PGA Tour events. We get questioned quite a bit on how our green speeds are compared to Tour events. Sunday's stimp meter at TPC Sawgrass registered at 13 feet for the final round. The good/bad news for a lot of our members is that you were putting on PGA Tour speeds for the past 3-4 months here at The Landings Club while our greens were dormant. This past week, finally, Mother Nature is cooperating and we're capable of growing grass to provide enjoyable speeds of 10-11 feet on the daily stimp meter. Although 10 feet on a stimp meter is very good, we understand that it will take time to accustom to the standard stimp readings our Golf/Green Committees have set of 10.5".
Below is some info we gathered for The Players Championship set-up:
Greens - mowed 8 times/day at .125, speed rolled 4 times/day
TLC mowed 1-2x/day @ .120, rolled 3-4 days/week
Tees/Fairways - Mowed at .375, two times/day
TLC mowed at .500, 3x/week
Rough - 2.5 inches
TLC currently at 1.25"
TPC Sawgrass has an incredible volunteer program for this tournament including superintendents from all over the world. To top off their daily 70 full time staff members, the organization is able to bring in an additional 105 employees for the agronomy staff two weeks prior to the event.
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