I hope the local Army Corps of Engineers isn't reading golf publications these days. Some new rules affecting any Corps controlled bodies of water created a complete ban on submersible pumps like the one's we use in Ten-Mile creek to get our irrigation water. Click the Golf Course Industry link below to read the article.
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Why do we want them in the bunkers? USGA recommends that they be left outside the bunker. I’ll bet that the guys who adopted this rule think its and advantage to them if I have to make a shot from and awkward lie. Is this what we've become a golf club for gamblers only? You've left the sand get way too soft & fluffy and now you want to enforce a rake in the bunker policy that makes no sense to me. Could you please explain?
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This has always been the policy at Highland Meadows. Myself and the grounds committee reviewed the policy last November and decided to keep it as such. The reasoning for keeping this policy were 1) Easier for golfers to find the rakes when they get to the bunker. When the rough gets longer, it can be difficult to find them, thus slowing play. 2) Efficiency of afternoon rough mowers. Our riding rough mowers having to get out and move the rakes takes a great deal of time while trying to mow 'in-play'. It is much easier for the rakers in the morning to move them than the rough mowers who are already slowed by our busy tee sheet. There were other reasons, but given these two, and the fact that the policy has always been such, the committee saw no reason to change. The stickers on the rakes were to help clarify this policy to the membership. Thanks for your questions!
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