Playing The Blue Monster

Today's the day, having a round there then watching the conclusion of the Masters in the club house. Should be one of my better golfing days in my life, but I did make the mistake of looking at the overview of the holes last night. :eek: I think it's safe to say I won't be paying off the back tees.
 
Had a cracking day there. It was millionaires golf as no one teed off in an 3 hour window around us, so we had a PGA championship course to ourselves:D

Course itself is very tough, you have to be long and straight for any chance of a par. And while I an occasionally one or the other, i'm not usually both at the same time. Every green was very fast, very tough pin positions (some were the same as the did for the Cadillac championship apparently:eek:) and were surrounded by many bunkers and often water for when you ran off them.

Having said that it was not impossible, even for a hacker like me. And it was great to try holes where you are having to go over huge lakes to cut the corner off. Or firing into greens where all you could mostly see are bunkers everywhere. 20140413_144355.jpg



20140413_142615.jpgPicture here is of one tee shot we had, hole is way off to the left over the lake, apparently Bubba put 3 into the water trying to cut a lot of the corner off. But then again his tee was probably 100 yards further back.

18th was special as well, a great hole 20140413_160414.jpg



20140413_153834.jpgOh, traditionalists turn away now as I played most of the round with my shirt untucked as it was so hot, and the guy we got pur with was wearing Nike trainers!
 
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Looks the business. How many balls did you lose to the drink?

A few ;)

To be honest you could play quite safe and you'd hardly lose any. Or as you are there only once, you could try to cut too much of the corner off a few too many times, and lose them in the lakes.

Actually worst ones were where there was water just off the greens down a sharp drop, with the flag on a slope 4 feet from the edge of the extremely fast green. As if you went past the hole you were in the drink. There were some very tentative puts being made....
 
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