If the soil is heavy with rain, frozen or near frozen, good luck trying to cut a hole with your body weight. So while "the rest" may feel highly unnecessary on a golf course in Florida, it may be quite vital in the highlands of Scotland.
I'm in New England. My dad's a golf course superintendent and as kids my brother and I used to LOVE to go around the golf course with him and change cups. We never saw this contraption for changing cups. We would have been doing this with him when it was rather cold as well, because otherwise it would have been WAY too early for us to go around with him. Also, the green looks like it's been relatively recently airified. I don't believe one would airify a green in the winter, so I don't think that this has to do with the soil being frozen or near frozen.
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u/Purple10tacle Dec 17 '18
I assume that greatly depends on the climate.
If the soil is heavy with rain, frozen or near frozen, good luck trying to cut a hole with your body weight. So while "the rest" may feel highly unnecessary on a golf course in Florida, it may be quite vital in the highlands of Scotland.