Why are they putting holes in our greens?

If you’ve been down at the club in the past week you’ll have realised that our greens were hollow tined and sanded. You probably complained about having to putt on temporary greens or if you were fortunate to have missed that experience it’s likely that you blamed your three-putts (or four-putts) on the holey putting surface.  That’s a normal response but hollow tining is an essential part of most golf course maintenance programmes . I’m going to explain why…

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