{"id":253,"date":"2017-12-19T23:36:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T23:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2017-12-19T23:38:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T23:38:07","slug":"2-green-cut-to-match-the-others-now-they-are-all-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/2017\/12\/19\/2-green-cut-to-match-the-others-now-they-are-all-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"#2 Green cut to match the others &#8211; Now they are all fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold weather and slow growing greens have contributed to the FAST LOP greens this month. LOP Stimpmeter readings this month are at about 10.5 to 11.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"United States Golf Association\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Golf_Association\">USGA<\/a>\u00a0stimpmetered putting greens across the country to produce the following recommendations:<sup id=\"cite_ref-gd_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stimpmeter#cite_note-gd-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<table class=\"wikitable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>\u00a0Speed<\/th>\n<th>Length<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">Slow<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\u00a04.5 feet (1.4\u00a0m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">Medium<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\u00a06.5 feet (2.0\u00a0m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">Fast<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\u00a08.5 feet (2.6\u00a0m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>For the\u00a0<a title=\"U.S. Open (golf)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Open_(golf)\">U.S. Open<\/a>, they recommend:<sup id=\"cite_ref-gd_1-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stimpmeter#cite_note-gd-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<table class=\"wikitable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>\u00a0Speed<\/th>\n<th>Length<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">Slow<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\u00a06.5 feet (2.0\u00a0m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">Medium<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\u00a08.5 feet (2.6\u00a0m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">Fast<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\u00a010.5 feet (3.2\u00a0m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The greens at\u00a0<a title=\"Oakmont Country Club\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oakmont_Country_Club\">Oakmont Country Club<\/a>\u00a0(where the device was conceived) are some of the fastest in the world, with readings of 13\u201315 feet (4.0\u20134.6\u00a0m).<sup id=\"cite_ref-ppg06-07_9-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fthmb.tqn.com\/F9rapyPVxuK_s5-UQBtY16lNXBQ=\/1789x1205\/filters:fill(auto,1)\/stimpmeter-lg-57067e9c5f9b581408cdd1fd.jpg\" width=\"1789\" height=\"1205\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold weather and slow growing greens have contributed to the FAST LOP greens this month. LOP Stimpmeter readings this month are at about 10.5 to 11. The\u00a0USGA\u00a0stimpmetered putting greens across the country to produce the following recommendations:[1] \u00a0Speed Length Slow \u00a04.5 feet (1.4\u00a0m) Medium \u00a06.5 feet (2.0\u00a0m) Fast \u00a08.5 feet (2.6\u00a0m) For the\u00a0U.S. Open, they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/2017\/12\/19\/2-green-cut-to-match-the-others-now-they-are-all-fast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#2 Green cut to match the others &#8211; Now they are all fast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,4,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopgolf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}