My home course has 2 kinds of rough.....................

[BuckeyeNut]

I'm not even talking about native grass areas................just missing a fairway.

My course has 2 kinds of lies:

1.Not freshly cut

2 freshly cut lies.............

Can U dig it?

Ever play a course like this?

Freshly cut grass looks tame from afar........

I am standing directly behind my ball in the above pic....can you see it?  LOL............and that is freshly cut grass.  Can anyone relate?

[ColoradoGolfer]

Looks like your rough must've just grown out to the desired height recently, hence the reason the cut grass isn't much shorter. My home course still hasn't cut theirs though, I wish they would as it's starting to get shaggy.

[mdl]

Man.  I'm too used to affordable courses in/near LA.  I NEVER see rough that bad.  At the munis I most often frequent only one course ever has tough rough, and that's only in the couple weeks leading up to the LA Open.  Even then the depth varies by how much water the grass gets, and the rough is often brutal by the greens but just slightly more difficult beside the fairways.  Even at the expensive courses I've played the rough is usually not very penal.  At worst it'll be deep enough to take off some spin and not let you stop the ball well on the green, but never that deep.

Of course, on many courses around here if you just miss the fairway you often have a frankly easy shot relative to that kind of rough, but if you miss by more than a little then you're just in the desert scrub and praying you even have a decent pitch back out into the grass...

[Zwick]

My home course is about the same. If you miss a fairway, you better watch closely where the ball lands. But the rough is usally like the freshly cut at your course, so not too bad.

And there is only a small strip of rough and then you are in knee high rough where you have close to no chance to find your ball. If you somehow find it, there is no way to get it back to the fairway with anything else than a wedge.

Twice a year they cut the knee high grass to ankle high and I play about 5 shots per round better.

[LuciusWooding]

It looks like the type of grass is dry and narrow and grows pretty straight up. It also looks like it's overseeded but the thinner variety is pretty much eliminated when it's cut. If they didn't leave it pretty long, it wouldn't do a whole lot. Sucks for finding the ball and making a clean shot out of it though. I also wouldn't want to play out of it after a long rain, it could grab a fella's club.

Also, be thankful for what you got. My courses all think trees are cheaper to maintain and line the fairways with them on almost every hole. Your 40 yard wide bailout area really invites a driver where a 25 yard wide fairway with trees on both sides and not much sky can make a fella feel claustrophobic.

[BuckeyeNut]

It's a very stiff hearty grass in the midwest.  Mostly hack-out lies.....(no wispy Bermuda grass here)  Sometimes I just enjoy ranting my frustrations with missing fairways.  Even when I get lucky and appear to have a good lie, the ball often comes out like a nerf.  LOL....flyer lies?...what's that??.......we don't have them.  We have the 'grit your teeth and swing really hard at it' kind of lies.....

[Motley01]

OMG! That looks like US Open rough, or even worse. I hate playing courses with that kind of rough. It's just over penalizing.

Is that Kentucky Blue Grass? Out here in Denver area, most rough is Blue Grass, and fairways and greens are Bent Grass.

[VMAN]

My home course, the rough isn't long, but it is heavy.  You'll get the occasional flyer lie, overall it's 50/50.  But those are some deep lies.  The problem with my course is if you miss the rough and fairway you may end up in stuff that is knee to waist high.  You can chop it out provided you can find it.  We hit provisionals from time to time