The course has been very frosty over the past weeks, so much so that the ground has become frozen. As a damage-preventative measure we have placed 'frost holes' onto the aprons. These holes are only in play when the flag is placed in them as we did this morning even though there was no sign of any frost. Our deputy head greenkeeper mentioned that the most damage occurs if the turfgrass carrirs traffic while the surface start to thaw. He elaborates on this by saying that the traffic can cause the soft upper surface to tear away from the frozen layer beneath it.
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