Chart of the week: clipping volume and green speed

When you run a mower across a green and get almost no clippings, the green will be faster than if you mowed the green at the same height but collected a lot of clippings. I think most of us know this is the case, and when you collect the clipping volume and also measure green speed, you can get a useful detail about that relationship.

You can make a scatterplot, like the image shown here, with green speed on one…