Playing The Blue Monster

[Canary_Yellow]

I asked a similar question a few days ago:

http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/sh...endations-for-courses-to-play-in-Orlando-area

Hope that helps.

 

[Biggleswade Blue]

I asked a similar question a few days ago:

http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/sh...endations-for-courses-to-play-in-Orlando-area

Hope that helps.

So you did. Thank you, and sorry to have pushed us to a tangent.

Back to the lucky chaps playing Blue Monster...

 

[Hacker Khan]

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. I think it's safe to say I won't be paying off the back tees.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Enjoy :thup:

 

[Hacker Khan]

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

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) 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.



Picture 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



Oh, 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!

 

[gripitripit]

Looks the business. How many balls did you lose to the drink?

 

[Hacker Khan]

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....

 

[srixon 1]

Went there as a spectator a few years ago. It looks very different without the stadiums around the greens.