Night golf

[Tifosinumerouno]

I am playing in a 4 man scramble this weekend that is played half in the twilight (tee off at 6:00 pm) and half at night (tee off at 9:00 pm) they are providing us glowing golf balls, and will have lights on the teeboxes and greens and perhaps on the doglegs of a couple holes. Does anyone here have any experience in this type of environment and perhaps some pointers on things like reading the slope and grain of greens? Anything else that might be helpful at night?

[Yukari]

Now if you had Stevie Wonder as your 4th, you'd be golden!

[injury]

Have fun with it, and keep your eyes on your ball. I've done it once sliced a drive and someone took off with my ball...good luck chasing them down in the dark. When I played they had glow sticks at the teeboxes and one hanging on the flag and a disk in the bottom of the cups, no markers for doglegs or anything. I was glad I had someone with me that knew that course because you could look out and just see several glowing sticks and not know for certain which one was your green. We had flashlights and such but the rule stated you must turn them off when you take your swing. So line up with the light on, set up everything, then light off and swing.

I did read a thread recently though about some of those brands of nite balls being much harder than a regular golfball and caving in a few fancy drivers. Has me paranoid if I ever get asked again I'll make sure to take my old driver/woods.

[DonW]

Don't use drivers, fairways, or hybrids with the hard plasticballs that require you to insert the little glowsticks, have seen several posts where faces were damaged or destroyed. I tried the flashing balls Golfsmith carries but these were very sketchy as far as quality, supposed to flash for five minutes mine didn't and I lost them on a regular basis. The flashing drove me nuts when trying to strike them from the fairway, lots of fat hits something that I don't have an issue with as a rule. I will play irons only next time I go, my cousin played six iron only and scored nearly as well as anyone with a full bag. Align the glowstick parallel to your club face on every strike or you will break the glowstick.