.....that a golf course's superintendent play his course? Regularly, sometimes, never? And if so why?
I think it's important. And I'll tell you something else> Do you all know Fishers Island's excellent superintendent Donnie Beck? Well, Donnie has developed this interesting method of the degrees of firm and fast he puts on the course, and amazingly it all revolves around the amount of fish he catches! A low catch produces a course that's kinda slow and a really high catch (this is sophisticatedly annualized, by the way!) produces really firm and fast conditions.
If I was his green chairman, I'd entertain the idea of making him stop fishing and play the course at least twice a week. That could be a bit tricky and dangerous, though, and if higher degrees of firm and fast were getting compromised I'd tell him to forget about playing the course and go fishing more!
Oh, and also, do you think it's important that a course's super gets out and plays other courses? That might be sort of a logistical nightmare for Donnie, though!
