Are You a Fair Weather or All Weather Golfer?

[Janine05]

On 8/2/2024 at 9:21 PM, bkuehn1952 said:

I would probably be listed under “All Weather.” I have played in Michigan in every month since April, 2022. I don’t play when the turf’s surface is frozen. I won’t start a round in steady rain if the forecast is for rain the next 4 hours. If the choice is to go a week or more without playing or play when it is 39 degrees with a 15 mph breeze, I play.

Isn't your profile photo of you playing in the snow? 😮 I hope you used a bright red ball or similar.

[bkuehn1952]

19 hours ago, Janine05 said:

Isn't your profile photo of you playing in the snow? 😮 I hope you used a bright red ball or similar.

Orange, but I don’t really play in snow. I have been on the course when light snow interrupts the round.

[Elmer]

On 8/2/2024 at 3:16 PM, billchao said:

I’ll play in the rain, but thunder and lightning? That’s a no from me, dawg.

I don’t think the courses around here will even let you out if there’s lightning in the area. I know one course has the Thor Guard lightning detection system. It went off once when I was playing and they came out picked us all up in carts from wherever we were.

This was league play. 
If the course does not close we are left with the option of  playing or having to play a double match in 2 weeks (this is 1 round of 9, but against 2 opponents).
Due to weather myself and many others are playing double matches for the last few weeks of the league. Due to 1 course closing, the league has been pushed in to sept, which is not ideal, because that is when HS golf takes over the course.

So we are left to play in so-so weather while continuing to repeat "Don't think the heavy stuff's gonna come down for quite a while"

[pganapathy]

I live in South India so temperatures are virtually never cold enough to stop play.  Just that the monsoon can make play difficult.  I am just not willing to play in the rain and kind of reluctant to play when the ground is soggy and balls are plugging all the time.  And since we don't have snow here, any time the ground is dry enough I am willing to play

[wetzel1592]

With 2 young kids and limited time to play, if I have golf on the schedule and there’s no lightning, I’ll be playing. I wish I could be a little more picky but time constraints tend to force my hand. 

[TN94z]

Unless it is so cold that it will sting my hands on a thin shot, I will "usually" play if asked but I don't usually play alone much if below 60, maybe 55.  I actually like playing in the rain (not pouring down) because the sound of the rain hitting my umbrella and rain gear is very calming to me

[retoid]

This winter my golf partner and I played about 4 or 5 rounds on a completely frozen golf course. The ground was solid, the water hazards were completely frozen over and it was in the 30's temperature wise. It was such a fun experience to be honest. Lots of funny moments. Drives would go so far because the ball just bounces and keeps rolling. We'd purposefully try to bounce the ball off the lakes at times as well, just to see if we could. And then the greens were the most challenging, specially par 3's. Multiple times I'd land my ball on the green from the tee box and then watch it bounce back up into the air another 20 feet hehe.