{"id":810,"date":"2018-06-21T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/blog\/clegg-hammer\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T06:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:24:18","slug":"clegg-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/blog\/clegg-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Clegg Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst having a dig around in the office cupboards (like you do when you start a new job) I stumbled across a Clegg hammer.If you&#8217;re not familiar with a Clegg hammer they&#8217;re an instrument used to measure the firmness of a surface and the thing of dreams to a course manager who is regularly defending the firmness<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-954 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180612_140245.jpg?w=9216\" alt=\"20180612_140245.jpg\" width=\"365\" height=\"487\" \/> of their greens as they transition from spring into summer mode.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best things about my new role is getting to visit several golf courses during short periods of time &#8211; this enables me to compare different sites at a similar time rather than having the insular view I had when I managed my own course. Coupled with my newly found Clegg hammer I&#8217;ve been able to do some real readings at a number of courses and begin building a database of data about &#8220;real life&#8221; readings and with time how they compare to moisture levels.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s early days but if I ever visit you and you want me to Clegg your greens &#8211; please say. The more data I can get the better.<\/p>\n<p>As time goes on I hope to correlate the Clegg readings against moisture readings. No real conclusions at the moment &#8211; all the course managers where generally happy with the firmness and felt they were at a comfortable point to keep members happy &#8211; any firmer would begin to enter into &#8220;controversial&#8221; phase. Some of the courses were on a Qualibra program. Our research has shown that Qualibra can help to maintain moisture during dry periods and but ensure high moisture levels are avoided in wet periods. I&#8217;ll be intrigued to see what impact this has over time on these firmness readings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-957 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/clegg-3.jpg\" alt=\"clegg 3\" width=\"195\" height=\"380\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-955 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/clegg-1.jpg\" alt=\"clegg 1\" width=\"190\" height=\"378\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-956 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/clegg-2.jpg\" alt=\"clegg 2\" width=\"191\" height=\"356\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-958 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/clegg-4.jpg\" alt=\"clegg 4\" width=\"185\" height=\"94\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m off to dig around in another cupboard &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping I&#8217;ll find a Moisture probe !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst having a dig around in the office cupboards (like you do when you start a new job) I stumbled across a Clegg hammer.If you&#8217;re not familiar with a Clegg hammer they&#8217;re an instrument used to measure the firmness of a surface and the thing of dreams to a course manager who is regularly defending&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turf-care","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}