Buckeyegolfnut
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I've played a few courses in Florida and as courses go prefer northern courses. I think I don't like the greens or something. I'm not knocking Florida but the terraine and environemtent don't make it a top golf destination to me.
I just think you don't like hitting off Bermuda grass. I had a couple of friends go to Florida to play golf. The starter happened to be a expatriate NE Ohioan, and asked them if they'd ever played on Bermuda before. When they said no, he advised them to play the ball further back in their stance. After the round their feelings were, "Back in your stance? How about behind your stance?!" They had one hell of a time with that grass.
My Sis and BIL moved down there from upstate NY at least a decade ago. They live on the Atlantic coast in Melbourne. The "Space Coast" to be precise. Or less precise now that I think about it. She says the Winters are pretty easy to take, and the Summers aren't really that bad. Besides, they have A/C, so what's the problem?
I have a couple of golf friends who still do the snowbird routine. They head down there for the Winter and come back up here in the Spring. They have an enormous RV that they drive back and forth, and that they live in while they are down there. They have it all mapped out. And they play nearly every day while in Florida. Plus, the lady takes lessons. They only started playing a few years ago, because my buddy got his Sister into the game, and she got her husband into it.
We play them in 2 person scrambles. At first, they were easy to beat. They were beginners, and it didn't matter how many strokes we spotted them. We'd work it by 9 holes. However many strokes we beat them by on the front 9 was how many strokes we would give them on the back. It has gotten to the point where they are actually a threat to us, and have actually beaten us a few times this past season!
I need to get to the range!