6132 M; Par 72; Slope 139, by Keith Preston, the British golf-course architect.
They say:
Name of club Ypsilon Golf Resort Liberecsymbolizes its geographic location at the intersection of three states Republic,
Club history dates back to March 2004, when he was accepted as a full member of the Czech Golf Federation. The club is fully underway on the 12th May 2006, when the whole golf resort opened to the public. not only offers all fans of the game on a professional field, but also a modern clubhouse, conceived design studio design Miro Pistek Bayreuth. The clubhouse has a restaurant with superb cuisine, breathtaking views from the terraces onto the pitch and the Pro-Shop offering world-brand clothes, shoes and golf equipment. All in beautiful unspoilt countryside.
I don’t know what it is about Czech Golf Courses, but they seem to hide them . . . as much as you can hide 300 acres . . . 8^D . . . It was a very convoluted route to get there . . . Liberice does have a reputation of being a confusing town . . .
But it has a lovely, new clubhouse . . . with a large, fine restaurant . . .
This is a view of #1, from the clubhouse, with the practice green in between. I have a new precept: #1 should be a Par 5, and it should have a very small dogleg, if any at all . . . Ypsilon’s #1, OTOH, has a nearly 90 degree dogleg . . . I only had an 8 iron to the green, but I foozled it . . . The trash in front of the green is intimidating . . . The second shot was pin high, but a very tough putt, 12 ft with a bend of 2 feet. Bogey.
#2 is another par 4, not so long, but uphill, and a blind t-shot . . . you don’t want to be too close to the woods on the right or you can get blocked out, but you gotta challenge, I decided in retrospect, or else you have 200m to the green. No Bueno. Aggh. I was outta my routine. . . didn’t get a proper shot of the approach . . . just this one on the way to the 3rd tee.
#3, another moderate par 4 with a blind Tshot . . . 8^D . . . .see the trend? I finally got over my first tee jitters and striped one down the middle . . . it rolled off a little left, but still in the fairway. I hit a bold 9iron into the teeth of the wind to the pin on the front quarter of the green. .. 3 putt bogey, after two 2putt bogeys. . . ahhhhh. I forgot to take a picture again and ran back over from the 4th tee while we waited.
#4 is a mid length par 3, down hill, shouldn’t be so much of a challenge, as it was for me . . . but I wasn’t hitting midirons worth a dang . . . linedrive into the creek .. . if it gets over, its fine but it plunked right in. Double bogey.
#5 is the #2 handicap hole, and it’s a fearsome uphill monster, even if its only moderate length par 4 . . . concentrating on “just a good shot” and fanned it and sliced in the deep rough short of those trees on the right . . . horrible ankle deep stuff, like all over the course . . . really almost unfair without spotters, if you see how I mean . . . scuttled the first try just 40 meters, still in the rough . . . so muscled up on the 3rd try and pushed it (counting on the grass to turn the club over, alas), up to in between the traps on the right . . .
Another bladed chip to the back of the green and a 3 putt for a 7. yech.
#6 is a short par 3 . . . a breather hole one feels . . . just put me down for another double bogey and please don’t ask questions. . . 8^D . . .
#7 is a short par 4, downhill, that the regulars were looking forward to . . . they said, you *might* be able to drive the green but they were basically laying back . . . to avoid trouble . . . this hole was a prize hole, for the “closest in 2” . . . I just hammered it straight towards the left side of the green and let the contour bring it down in front of the green, 10 meters short. . . say 285 m . . . my companions were already congratulating me on winning the prize, for it would be only a simple chip to get inside 15m, the current holder . . . so natcherly, I chunked the pitch (actually a Scottish style bump and run) only to the front of the green . . . they were so embarrassed for me they could hardly offer commiseration . . . but then I chipped in for a birdie – never fails does it? . . . 8^D . . .
Oh, I apparently was so enthralled with my rare-in-the-czech-republic-birdie that I took no picture of the tee for the par5 #8 . . . I don’t remember well, but that’s my ball in 3 . . .so write down 3putt bogey . . . my very favorite thing . . .
#9 was the 
so only 1 birdie and 1 par on the front, but was around in even 5s for a 45, if you see how I mean . . . just a little better and I could make my handicap . . .
#10 looks a lot like #1, in the way that architects have of doing that, but that big tree there on the right militates against cutting-the-corner, and the dogleg is shorter and sharper . . . so I hit a 5wood to keep it in play, but the guys that hit 5iron were just as close as I was . . . to the green . . . I foozled a 7wood, then flounder, flounder, flounder, triple bogey . . . so much for pressing . . .
#11 is another moderate par 4, not-quite a blind shot, but the boys scared me so much about the trash on the right that I put a hook around the trees there in the fairway . . . ok, on the left edge of the fairway. Totally pureed my 8iron to the back of the green, leaving another 3putt bogey. @#@#$@
#12 is another *theoretically possible* drivable par 4, the boys who’d played Liberice were laying back again, but that’s a very tough layup, mentally, anyway . . . I just smoothed a driver up just short of the trap, and, again, I’m thinking birdie . . . but I chunked the pitch just over the bunker, then 3jacked from the front of the green. Not even a par . . . 8^/ . . .
OK. #13 is a long par 3 over a valley of trash . . . my only worry (I tho’t) was not going long, so . . . I hooked the holy batshit out of my choke-down half-7wood just into the tall grass & trees left of the hole . . . I couldn’t get a clean swipe at the ball, much less a clean hit, so it wound up on the front of the green, well away from the hole . . . standard 3putt from there
Now this is the heart of the course . . . a very tough two par 5s back-to-back. It would be worth considering this string of holes . . . the tough dogleg #10, the semi-blind shot uphill on #11, the drivable #12 par 4, the long par 3 #13, and then these two par 5s . . . whew! . . . I really should have taken mid fairway pix, too . . . but I think you can see from the green shot how the tee shot is downhill, then you cross a creek, then uphill to the green . . . now the boys were laying back again . . . it was 208 for us down to the creek . . . but I wanted to get all the way down there, so I tried to hit a half-driver, and pull hooked it behind those trees on the left side of the fairway, on the backside of a big mound . . . fairly good lie in that ankle deep rough, so I hit a 7wood from the hook lie, and tried to give it room – it might go straight from the rough, tho’ right? - - nope, good hit, big hook, I tho’t it was fine, but we couldn’t find it in the left rough around the trees . . . only a 100m from the green if I could find it, but no . . .x-hole.
Boys were worried by #15, the 2nd par 5, because the trash on the right hill is as bad as the trash on the left valley . . . I was happy, looked wide to me and I figgered to hit it straight up on that hump and let the slope bring it back down . . . instead, for the 3rd hole in a row, I pulled left . . .I mean, dannnnnng . . . it was short of the trash tho, down in the clumpy long rough leaning the wrong way, but I had clean look thru the trees to the fairway . . . I figger I’m not losing any money . . . I took a 5iron because I didn’t want to go thru the other side of the fairway, then . . . it turns out it’s a little further than I tho’t . . . some sort of optical illusion . . . I clopped into the creek bed just short of the fairway . . . shudda hit a 5wood . . . that’s another tough uphill approach to a huge green . . . I’m in my pocket . . . I don’t ever remember x-out 2 holes in a row before, even at Walden on Lake Conroe . . .
So with that in mind, to the #16 par 3 short downhill, where the closest to the pin was . . . OK, just smooth an 8iron and what can go wrong? It’s just like #3 or #8 at Motol . . . toed it right just off the green, where it bounced off the slope into the tree line . . . Hey! At least it wasn’t a jerk-left! . . . 8^) . . . popped the ball out of there onto the green easily enough, but way past the hole. . . 4putt . . . so I was 9 over just on the par3s.
This tee shot on the par4 #17 is a little intimidating . . . and the boys were angling right in danger of a tree that intrudes out into the right side of the fairway . . . I pull-hooked this one too, despite my intent to go right down the middle. That ball was hit really well, just left . . . it caromed off a hump there on the left side, and rolled w-a-a-a-a-y down . . . 250m, I guess . . . Hit an 8 for what was left to the downhill green, as you can see, but it was a club too much .. . 3putt bogey.
Well, I had resolved to finish strong, and gone quad-bogey, 3putt bogey, but the bulldog wouldn’t give up . . . 8^) . . . Hit a good drive not too long, but not left, so that was sumthin’ . . . 8^D . . .then couldn’t see the green, and I just wanted to hit it as far left as I could . . . came low off the toe of my 5wood . . . a good result from a mediocre shot . . . I just had a half wedge to the green, but that is one humongous green, and it had a extra tall flagstick that added to the optical illusion. . . that green goes away from you then falls off again into the rough, so I flew in short, with like 45 ft left . . . I made a good lag, then a good kneeknocker to finish with a par. Very satisfactory.
So a solid 2 on the
