Took Thursday and Friday off and played 36 both days with a buddy. Checked off two new courses.
Thursday - Sondalles White Lake CC and Waushara CC (new)....they have 27 and we played them all. It's an interesting property with some holes that are heavily tree lined/in the forest then opening up to a prairie style with rolling terrain, as well as some meadow/marsh with an island green and one tee box where the tips are cut in the trees and you hit over a corner of the marsh to a steeply uphill hole that is heavily tree lines. Fairway is wide enough though, but wow what a hole. Fun course as is Sondalles ($16.88 to walk 18☺️ and $30 to ride at WCC with our Wisco Classic Golf Tour Card). Sondalles has domesticated Michigan Peacocks running around😂.
Friday - Stevens Point CC. It was windy and it was firm and fast. Greens were running at 13, still receptive enough but if coming in from the first cut or fescue, forget about getting one to stop on the green. This course was cut between tall old pine trees, which they lost the majority of after the Dupont chemical fiasco, so they had to redesign it and exposed the sandy turf on the surrounds of the holes and it turned out great. I guess you could say it's somewhat reminiscent of where the girls are playing this week. The greens are super. There are enough pines left to frame a few holes and offer a interesting backdrop as well. Quite a few memorable moments but my favorite was parring #6, 406y into the wind. Dogs right to left with a bunkers left and exposed sand all the way down the right. I nailed a drive starting left side and cutting back inside the right sand. 196 left to a middle pin. I hit 2h to about 10 feet carrying it just.onnthe green which the right bunker extends all the way up to. Narrowly missed the putt low. Man did I want that one. I birdied #15 which is a par 5 with a split fairway. Right is easier to hit and left is narrower and also semi blind but a better angle to a green tucked back to the right and well guarded by bunkering and exposed sand. A great hole. Rd. 2 at Shawano Lake GC, (new) a Bendelow design. Some super holes but the greens are the smallest, by far that I've ever played. You'd have to see them to understand (tiny), many perched up and turtlebacked. 5800y par 71, but one par 5 was 418 and one par 4 was 218, so it's really a 69. Some really wild holes out there. If the greens weren't so ridiculous, I could see playing it once or twice per year.
