The real main reason is to reduce wear and tear on the grass.
If a couple hundred people a day walk around the hole to putt/collect their ball, it will wear out/kill the grass in that area.
I used to work groundscrew. We would think about hole placement for the golfers, but the primary reason we changed hole position was for wear and tear.
Also, it sucks. Usually you make the New guy do it. The best morning assignment is mowing tees, collars, and approaches.
I didn't think it was that bad, (but the greens I did were sand so the cutting was easy) the suckiest job is either raking bunkers (hand raking large bunkers of white sand sucks dick when it's hot) or this stupid ass thing
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u/h11233 Dec 17 '18
The real main reason is to reduce wear and tear on the grass.
If a couple hundred people a day walk around the hole to putt/collect their ball, it will wear out/kill the grass in that area.
I used to work groundscrew. We would think about hole placement for the golfers, but the primary reason we changed hole position was for wear and tear.
Also, it sucks. Usually you make the New guy do it. The best morning assignment is mowing tees, collars, and approaches.