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1. Smith Tim

   
   4/3/2013 2:04 PM

   On average how wide are your fairways? Not including a step cut or intermediate rough.I have a single row quick coupler system. We mow 3x week at 5/8". We are looking to shave some mowing time is 20 yards too narrow? We do mow an intermediate cut so that would bring us to about 25 yds.

   
   
   
   
2. Andy Scott

   

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   4/3/2013 3:04 PM

   I think it depends on who your golfers are. My club is a small private membership with mostly seniors so the wider the better. I have even had requests for 3/4" rough EVERYWHERE. My fairways are mowed at 5/8" and have about 40 Ac.

   
   
   
   
3. Clay Putnam

   

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   4/3/2013 5:04 PM

   20 yards is very narrow. I believe the PGA likes fairways to be 25 to 30 yards wide for tournament play. Most fairways I have seen are in the 30 to 40 yards wide depending...

   
   
   
   
4. Larry Allan

   

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   4/4/2013 6:04 AM

   I think we average 25 yards or less in width in the landing areas. Total acreage for 18 holes of less than 20 acres

   
   
   
   
5. Andy Jorgensen

   

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   4/4/2013 8:04 AM

   Keep landing areas wider and narrow everything else. You can also shorten the length of the fairway by the tees.

   
   
   
   
6. Dargan Trevor J

   
   4/4/2013 9:04 AM

   This is always a very interesting debate. I am on a private members course with approx 110 acres of a site. My fairway width in approx 22 yards . Narrow landing areas and very narrow entrances to approaches.greens are ones to watch out for . Members get bugged in my oppion when the hit a reasonable shot and get hammered by these tight areas. Enjoy the debate.

   
   
   
   
7. Clay Putnam

   

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   4/4/2013 10:04 AM

   This is an interesting debate. I can't help but wonder why (in these times of golf courses begging for players) any course would want or encourage tighter landing areas and approaches. Why would any financially strapped golf course encourage a more difficult playing surface, which will chase more business away? I can understand financially strapped courses reducing fairway area by shortening fairway length and narrowing none-landing areas. But the course is already in a financial tail spin. Increasing difficulty by narrowing landing areas and approaches will only serve to hasten the downward spiral.

   
   
   
   
8. Keith Fellenstein

   

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   4/4/2013 10:04 AM

   Whenever possible, I'll let the irrigation determine the width of fairway...especially for cool season courses in the mid-atlantic. In most of the cases I've dealt with, double-row or more at 85' spacing, the fairways rarely were more than 95' wide. In your case, you could make the case for narrower fairways based on that issue alone.

   
   
   
   
9. Casavant Gerry

   
   4/25/2013 6:04 AM

   Yards are yards, but effective width of fairways is dependent on how dry or wet your course is. a wet course with minimal ball roll after landing can have "narrower" fairways .. in YARDS .. than a dry course.

   
   
   
   
10. Mark Van Lienden

    

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    4/25/2013 7:04 AM

    I once had a lady ask to widen the fairway on one of our par threes....it was the walking trail.