After todays practice round, here's my preview of the course. Even though I played here about 10 years ago, I had a hard time remembering any of the holes. The one thing I knew going into the round was that this was a pretty wide open course. Good news is the course is even more open than I thought which really fits my game. There are couple holes on the back nine where I hit 2-iron off the tee because it was playing dead downwind, but every other hole is a driver. The course is guarded by water on a lot of the holes, but there is still plenty of room. Surprisingly, there are some subtle hills and slight elevation changes which add character to the tee shots. But overall, putting the ball in play shouldn't be a problem.
The greens, however, are the exact opposite than the fairways. They are slightly deeper than they are wide, but neither would be considered big. Also, they are heavily guarded by bunkers. In terms of putting, it was hard to get a feel for the speed because they over-seeded their greens and it looked like they haven't cut them since. In other words, they were extremely slow. Plenty of grass and relatively smooth.......but slooooowwwww. In fact, the whole place was a little on the hairy side but that's normal for a course if they plan on mowing everything down real low before the start of a tournament. At least let's hope that's the plan.
I'm feeling good about this week. I played well again today from tee to green. This course suits my game and there are plenty of birdie opportunities out there. We'll see if the putter shows up tomorrow early as my tee time is 8:18 off #10.
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