re: Baton Rouge Golf

I'm not sure what Webb's budget/finances look like. I just know what I'm paying at the counter and it's not far off from what you should expect for $23 with a cart.

Webb's biggest problem is that they have old, small greens that also get a lot of traffic. Compound that with the apathetic golfers out there who don't fix ball marks and are generally abusive to the course and you get what you have now. They need to just bite-the-bullet and completely renovate all the greens from the ground up with larger putting surfaces to handle the traffic.

Either way, this feels more like a Webb sucks thread than a Baton Rouge Golf sucks thread.

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Also they obviously don’t have competent greenskeepers/supers to provide the maintenance and upkeep year round.

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SO another competent golfer that thinks he knows everything. as a Superintendent for 24 years, I love you guys. BREC has Qualified Superintendents, but there is only so much you can do with what you are given to work with. Santa Maria for example has a very old irrigation system that is always leaking and breaking. they can't even run the rough without blowing pipe out of the ground. so when you are in a hole everyday fixing leaks and breaks, something else isn't getting done.
Let me ask, do you think we just mow grass? are uneducated? lazy? I'll tell you this, most of use are highly educated with at least a Bachelors degree. We work long hours, have to understand and perform electrical, plumbing, mechanic, hydraulics, agronomy, horticulture, run heavy equipment, business management, finance, weather man, HR, and I can keep going.
Just because a course is in poor shape, doesn't mean the Superintendent is incompetent. their are so many variables to this. Staffing, budget, capital improvement or lack of, equipment age and condition, weather.

I'm not going to hide either. My name is Brent LeBlanc and I can be found at the Golden Nugget Lake Charles if you have questions or want to understand more. My resume includes Koasati Pines, TPC Louisiana, the Bridges, The Broadwater, and the National GC of Louisiana.