Playing on Cored and Top-Dressed Greens - Tips

[Rika85]

Hi All,

Long time reader, first time poster here.

One of the necessary evils of maintaing putting surfaces is the process of coring and top dressing the greens with sand. It seems as though my club (in Australia) is undertaking this very process at present and I will be enjoying all it has to offer this weekend in competition play.

In your experience, what effect does this have on the ball? It's been a fair while since I've played in these conditions but I seem to remember that putts don't break quite as much. Has anyone recently played on greens which have been verti-drained and how did you find it on full shots, chip shots and putting?

I won't have the chance to get out there and see how it's playing prior to the competition so any feedback/experience from others would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.