Par 72, 5524 Meters, Slope ~115
Not so difficult course, not so great condition, not so clever a layout.
Cold, Windy, Foggy conditions.
Shot 39-45 with a birdie . . .
Back 9 is 270 meters longer than the front . . .
depressing to think that is difference between 39 & 45.
#1 over a ridge to a green that goes away from the fairway. Extra tall flag so you can see it from the fairway.
kind of dangerous with duffers around . . . #1 green is behind those trees, where a shank WILL GO.
Nice par3. uphill, but not too long. we both missed the green, only just, and still couldn't get up and down.
Hit my stride here . . . pound the drive, short iron in, 2 putt on the terrible bumpy greens.
Par 5 # 5. . . no real challenge.
Partner Mike almost drove the green -- on his 2nd tee shot . . . 1st was in the woods . . he parlayed that into a 7, then as we were leaving the hole we found his ball in that greenside bunker . . . he'd hooked it around the woods, like he was trying to do but the slope pushed it right where we never thot to look.
another slightly uphill par 3 . . . GIR, but 30 ft away . . . after missing 6 & 8 footers for birdie the last 4 holes, I was just trying to lag it close, and so it of course went in . . . over a giant tier-slope, bumpy irrigation holes, breaking about 7 ft left. Birdie.
very perplexing from the tee, not clear where to go.
Almost a real golf hole . . . 8^) . . .
signature ornament . . .like some druid monument . . . maybe celtic . . .
dog leg right . . . hung up in trees inside dogleg. missed the 1putt par.
agggh. putting has gone south. . . instead of tapin pars, now have scrambling bogies.
very troublesome tee shot . . . for the first timer, at least . . .chain of holding ponds perplex one, in addition to the blind landing area . . . I solved it by hooking into the next fairway, then powering an 8iron over the back of the green, then taking 4 to get up-and-down.
Easy Par.
#14, par 5, #1 handicap hole . . . I have no picture of the tee shot, which is perplexing because its one of those risk-reward thingys, with a row of traps guarding the landing area. Partner mike challenged them ,and wound up on top of the mound behind the traps . . . an awkward lie . . . I hit a fairway wood to lay up, then 5iron, craftily, into another fairway bunker . . . but, as I always say, bein' from West Texas, that don't bother me none: easily flew it onto the green with a wedge and 2 putted par.
nuthin little par 3 . . . we didn't get that close, but it didn't matter.
#17, bogey, just from being cold & tired.
#18 is a real golf hole. Partner mike challenged the hazards again, and just barely got over . . . but they got into my head and I foozled off the tee, more or less, for the first time today. Hit a good shot to the 100m marker, then pureed a 9iron over the green, to finish un-strongly with double-bogey.
no really remarkable holes, fun enough to play, but in clement weather would be even less of a challenge.
4 on the scottsdale standard.
