Well, having a few beers in a couple of hours....not sure that is a GOOD plan though.
What's the first hole like?
If you can hit the ball straight, it's an easy hole. 363 from the white. A few big bushy trees on the right about 200 yards and a couple of ball sucking evergreen trees (whatever type that holds on to the ball) about the same distance on the left. It's one of those holes where I might just hit 5 wood (16.5 really a 4 wood) ....easily gets it down inside 150 and then it's up to the short game. It's better than starting deep in the woods.....Plenty of the young big hitters take irons off the tee.
I don't mind the first part.....but....I shot 77 a few days ago. Regular bogey's put me in the river of doom. +10 is the worst I can shoot and keep my sanity. The way I've been hitting, anything worse than 80 is going to be disappointing...... Silly thing is, and I think they might do it on purpose.....a large amount of our sand traps have been blue staked and out of play(construction etc)....I think they may have the sand back in and bring them in just for this....just to zap us.
Yeah I was going to say, that sounds ideal for a nice "go to" club which you know you'll hit well 9 times out of 10. I wish my course had that, we start with a tough par 3 surrounded by bunkers, and then the hardest par 4 on the course! Would love a nice 360 yard par 4 to start.
As mentioned earlier.....you can't warm up. You are not allowed to use the practice ground and play on the same day. There is no other place to warm up. All you can do is putt and swing your clubs. If not.....I would be out hitting for 30 minutes before I played.
So you don't fancy our 229 yard par 3 to open with? OOB right for the block/slice, pond short left for a hook and a line of trees jutting out 30 yards short so anything faded our pushed and short blocked out for the second if it doesn't clear the tree lineYeah I was going to say, that sounds ideal for a nice "go to" club which you know you'll hit well 9 times out of 10. I wish my course had that, we start with a tough par 3 surrounded by bunkers, and then the hardest par 4 on the course! Would love a nice 360 yard par 4 to start.
Yeah forget that. There should be a law that every first hole is always a gentle par 4.
That's stupid. We can book a range session prior to going out (so they know how many are on the range at any one time and bring out cleaned balls). I am out at 8.36 tomorrow so booked a 7.30 slot on the range
Take the four (net 3 as it's SI10) and move on. Second is a par 5 so avoid OOB right and good chance to make par (again shot hole) and get ahead of the cardYeah forget that. There should be a law that every first hole is always a gentle par 4.
We don't have a "driving range". Just a big practice field. Not allowed to go before 8am. I'm out at 9:30, thought about just stopping in to see if they will let me go out for 15 minutes.....not betting on it. I asked a few weeks ago if I could get out there at about 7am to practice since I get up early.....nope. A couple guys I play with keep playing for money....I won on Monday and one guy insisted on giving me money which I told him I didn't want......he insisted so I told him to throw it in a pocket of my golf bag. Good thing.....manager saw it and came out to bash him for not following the rules. They have been pretty strict about keeping things tight.
We only have a practice field and open from when the pro arrives (so around 7.00-7.15). They bring the balls in a basket and then collect the baskets for cleaning and get the balls in once a day to clean those too. They have divided it into six bays so they can limit numbers but no real restrictions and definitely doesn't seem to be an implicit risk. If the field is open at 8.00 as long as you can get balls/basket safely what's the problem?
