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The Rolling Fool, My Experience With "Extreme" Rolling

In the past year I rolled the putting greens at my course about 200 times. I'm not sure if this is some kind of record or not but what I do know is that nothing terrible happened contrary to most "expert" advice. I am often perplexed to the advice from so called experts warning of certain doom if you roll your putting surfaces more than 2 or 3 times a week. What I have to ask them is have they ever tried rolling daily, 2x daily? I have and take it from me, it won't kill all your grass if you do it right. In this post I will share my experience with rolling, the pros, the cons and what to watch out for, based on my practical hands on experience. Equipment Log showing total number of recorded rolls in the last year in bold. Firstly I would like to share why you would consider an "extreme" rolling regime. It will give you a uniform increase in green speed almost instantly without the need for lowering the height of cut. There are a million studies out there on