darthweasel
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Played in a scramble Saturday. I had long wanted to play this specific course, heard great things about it. Be careful what you wish for… It was one of my least favorite type of courses. Not particularly scenic, and it was very much target golf. So much target golf, in fact, that the two long drive contest holes were both on par 4s, and one was a dogleg…uh…okay? Seriously, a 265 yard straight drive would be past the fairway and by about 280 you had a shot at hitting a pickup truck on the road…
Our group had one guy who is fairly steady in the fairway 160-180 out, another guy who is spraying it all over the course and tops out at 200, a guy only putting due to torn rotator cuff (we rotated playing a second shot every third hole) and myself. I am far and away the class of our group, my average drive is 260 on the nose, and my 6i is currently 183 average…it is not unusual for me to tee off with a 6 or 7i and outdrive the other guys’ drivers…our second hole was a downhill par 3 183 to the stick. On this day I pured a 7i and had it about 12' right of the pin, one of the few times in my life I have gotten my name on a KP. I tried to get them to not put me down as there was zero chance that would hold up but they insisted and since they enjoy being in a group with someone on there...okay. And someone did, as expected, get closer.
My partners do have very solid games from 180 in and are generally on or around the green. That was useful as on this day my normally reliable 3h decided to take a vacation. Our best hole was: I drove it 261 down the middle. I then deposited a 3h about 80 yards off to the right in the junk, but one of them picked me up when they hit as well as they could and left us 40 yards short. Dave proceeds to chip in for eagle.
We ended up with 2 bogeys, an eagle and 4 birdies for a 4 under. One of the birdies was on the aforementioned long drive hole.
This hole is guarded by a tree at the corner and right of the tree finds a pond. Our first guy puts it down left side giving us direct shot to green, second guy puts his in the pond, and I took…shall we say an aggressive line? A little left of the tree planning to fade it. Any pull is probably long of fairway, a slice finds the water but I hit a beautiful gentle fade that comes to a rest maybe 2 yards from the end of the fairway. On this particular hole I did not for whatever reason use golfpad…possibly as I was still torqued at myself for the prior hole, a very soft 103 yard uphill par 3 I was very little help on…but it was probably in the 310-320 range. The guys think I hit it 350 because it was 397 yards on the scorecard and I left us 47 to the flag. I tried to explain that was not how you figure it, but…regardless, it was a beautiful drive, one of maybe 4 to 5 shots I was happy with on the day. It was also by about 10 yards the longest drive at that point with 5 groups behind us. The guys marked me down on the long drive card, moved the flag up and we moved on with our round.
I was able to observe probably 5-6 groups throughout the day and I figured the 4 under would have us comfortably out of last place. Shockingly, the highest reported score was a 74. I am not saying anyone pencil whipped the scorecard…but I am saying a group I saw twice take drops by red stakes somehow broke 74…the group at our table told us their score and their fear they would be last place. I laughed, said no chance, I had seen several holes where groups were taking no less than a double and that was only if they hit a long putt...there had to be some in the 80. Nope, that 74 was the worst reported score...
One group had a guy who had both KP wins and a long drive win. His team finished 15 under in a tie for second. The winning group, including the host and two guys with the rather suspicious name "Guest" eked out the win with a 23 under 49.
Okay, fair enough. You birdied 13 holes and eagled 5 on a target golf course…including the double dogleg horseshoe par 5. That is some spectacular golf. I suspect both guys named "guest" play on the tour.
When my name was announced as winning the long drive, a guy from that group announced, "There is no way anyone beat my drive on that hole. Someone cheated."
No issue with the one guy winning 2 KP and one long drive, no problem with his group 23 under. But the possibility someone was capable of outhitting him? Preposterous!
I had a good laugh about it. I am not super consistent with my driver. It is not unusual for me to have a 220 and a 310 drive in the same round. No doubt when I have free reign, a miss doesn't hurt, I am going to get after it. But cheat? for a 60 dollar prize? thanks but no thanks. Appreciate you thinking about me though.
Our group had one guy who is fairly steady in the fairway 160-180 out, another guy who is spraying it all over the course and tops out at 200, a guy only putting due to torn rotator cuff (we rotated playing a second shot every third hole) and myself. I am far and away the class of our group, my average drive is 260 on the nose, and my 6i is currently 183 average…it is not unusual for me to tee off with a 6 or 7i and outdrive the other guys’ drivers…our second hole was a downhill par 3 183 to the stick. On this day I pured a 7i and had it about 12' right of the pin, one of the few times in my life I have gotten my name on a KP. I tried to get them to not put me down as there was zero chance that would hold up but they insisted and since they enjoy being in a group with someone on there...okay. And someone did, as expected, get closer.
My partners do have very solid games from 180 in and are generally on or around the green. That was useful as on this day my normally reliable 3h decided to take a vacation. Our best hole was: I drove it 261 down the middle. I then deposited a 3h about 80 yards off to the right in the junk, but one of them picked me up when they hit as well as they could and left us 40 yards short. Dave proceeds to chip in for eagle.
We ended up with 2 bogeys, an eagle and 4 birdies for a 4 under. One of the birdies was on the aforementioned long drive hole.
This hole is guarded by a tree at the corner and right of the tree finds a pond. Our first guy puts it down left side giving us direct shot to green, second guy puts his in the pond, and I took…shall we say an aggressive line? A little left of the tree planning to fade it. Any pull is probably long of fairway, a slice finds the water but I hit a beautiful gentle fade that comes to a rest maybe 2 yards from the end of the fairway. On this particular hole I did not for whatever reason use golfpad…possibly as I was still torqued at myself for the prior hole, a very soft 103 yard uphill par 3 I was very little help on…but it was probably in the 310-320 range. The guys think I hit it 350 because it was 397 yards on the scorecard and I left us 47 to the flag. I tried to explain that was not how you figure it, but…regardless, it was a beautiful drive, one of maybe 4 to 5 shots I was happy with on the day. It was also by about 10 yards the longest drive at that point with 5 groups behind us. The guys marked me down on the long drive card, moved the flag up and we moved on with our round.
I was able to observe probably 5-6 groups throughout the day and I figured the 4 under would have us comfortably out of last place. Shockingly, the highest reported score was a 74. I am not saying anyone pencil whipped the scorecard…but I am saying a group I saw twice take drops by red stakes somehow broke 74…the group at our table told us their score and their fear they would be last place. I laughed, said no chance, I had seen several holes where groups were taking no less than a double and that was only if they hit a long putt...there had to be some in the 80. Nope, that 74 was the worst reported score...
One group had a guy who had both KP wins and a long drive win. His team finished 15 under in a tie for second. The winning group, including the host and two guys with the rather suspicious name "Guest" eked out the win with a 23 under 49.
Okay, fair enough. You birdied 13 holes and eagled 5 on a target golf course…including the double dogleg horseshoe par 5. That is some spectacular golf. I suspect both guys named "guest" play on the tour.
When my name was announced as winning the long drive, a guy from that group announced, "There is no way anyone beat my drive on that hole. Someone cheated."
No issue with the one guy winning 2 KP and one long drive, no problem with his group 23 under. But the possibility someone was capable of outhitting him? Preposterous!
I had a good laugh about it. I am not super consistent with my driver. It is not unusual for me to have a 220 and a 310 drive in the same round. No doubt when I have free reign, a miss doesn't hurt, I am going to get after it. But cheat? for a 60 dollar prize? thanks but no thanks. Appreciate you thinking about me though.