Course Pics
Typhoon I was going to bring the camera and take pictures of the 9 hole pasture I play tonight, but somehow this is the one day or so a year I walked out of the house without my phone. Maybe next week. Our muni looks like Augusta compared to those pics of yours right now, but its plenty rough. Way too short for you too. The one par 5 is only 430 yards. It's a 3 shot hole anyway with a 90 degree dogleg at 300 yards through a line of trees, but you could probably cut the dogleg over the trees and its probably only 320 on the fly. All the other holes (4 par 4's, 4 par 3's) are comparatively short.
We just try to find grass to hit off of. Some of the traps you can't hit out of, all the sand is at the top and you can see the dirt at the bottom of the trap. Greens can be a crap shoot. Nice the first 2 weeks of the year, then an early aeration early April destroyed them like it does every year. The holes are huge and they are still bumpy as of yesterday. If u can get them right after a cut you can make a few putts, if not...crapshoot like I said.
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My home course in VA. The Gauntlet. P.B. Dye (Dye-a-bolical) design. Elevated, undulating, well bunkered greens, lots of forced carries and awesome Zoysia fairways.......and a 200yd par3 (from the regular tees).
After Steve's lovely pics, you'll want to throw up in your mouth looking at these from today.
First one is our 5th hole. I hit 4.5 wood to the middle of the fairway. Next one to 8 feet for birdie.
This is the tee box on #6...
How many times has Landon said Wtf??
Oak Quarry in Riverside, CA. And I didn't even take a pic of their signature hole #14. Google that one.
U suck Sparky.
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First tee box and 9th green of the weekly muni. Not exciting or picturesque, but well worth $7. Intended to take more pics, but interaction with the playing partners and following groups made me forget.
I miss munis. Every city should have one. Easy to walk, low rates, friendly layouts. Good for the game.
sdandrea1 The really bad thing about munis is that they have wayyyy too many outings all summer. Every weekend(Fr-Su) 1-2 are doing them, most on the same days. They are all shotgun and will take the whole day. A lot of courses in this area, but also a ton of golfers. And the rates are skyrocketing quickly.
otoh, they keep them up nicely, for the most part. Even with all the rain we've had, they are in great shape.
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sdandrea1 I'm not retired, but because we are fortunate enough to have more than a half-dozen municipal courses and at least another dozen privately owned public access courses in the Memphis area this little course gets overlooked and you can stop in and play almost any time without calling ahead. Not so at the other courses, but there are enough of them that the play gets spread out and there aren't too many tournaments on any given course during the year. That little nine hole course has issues in that the longest of the four par 3 holes is only 138 yards, the greens are tiny and fairly coarse bermuda, and a lot of people hate the secondary rough, which is allowed to grow to 5 inches or more. Besides trees, the rough is the only protection the course has, but I think it is allowed to grow as much to save on maintenance costs as it is strategic. Our group usually loses a handful of balls in the rough even though we know, within a few yards, where the ball is. But it is in a good location for us to meet after work and can't beat the price.
I lived in Austin, TX, Colorado Springs, and Greenville, SC in my former life. All had at least one muni that was decent, easy and fun. I miss 'em.
