Good question, and I don’t have the answers. But I think generally more of the “good” water needs to be used for the purpose of flushing out the crap from the reclaimed water, instead of just as normal watering. Every course in the Bay Area that uses high %'s of reclaimed water (SFGC, Olympic, Lake Merced, Contra Costa, etc) plays softer than courses that are able to exclusively use potable water. They are constantly flushing out the crap with the good water. Note that the courses around Lake Merced only started playing soft when SF mandated that they use at least 80% reclaimed water several years ago.
Would be good to hear from a superintendent in the area.
Ah, I can see how a % mandate would cause this, but also lead to actually using more potable water if they do need to flush it. But it sounds good on the surface…you’d think the # of gallons was the important metric. Would be great to hear from a super
I played with @alby there and yeah plenty of us go there often, although I don’t know of a ‘regular’ game - shouldn’t be too hard to get a few folks out.
I booked tee times. Also very flexible with times so if we would like to move around sometimes that works but on 11/25 I must be back in Cow Hollow by 3:30pm. The latest by 4 pm. Let me know if anyone would like to join?
I concur, all the places I have played over the last few months either have the foam insert, or the flag has the lever you can raise with your putter to pull the ball out.