Just Me

Talk about having a blast! This is such a fun tournament. The course superintendent places obstacles on the green, moves the tee boxes in interesting places and otherwise makes play a challenge. It’s a captain’s choice scramble. Everyone hits their own ball. The best shot is chosen and everyone else moves their ball to that position. Everyone hits their own ball again and the process is repeated until the ball is holed.

The below photos will show all of the obstacles we had to contend with. All of the tee boxes were in the rough where placing even a tall tee swallowed your ball. It wasn’t high enough to give you a clear shot at it. The tall grass got in the way. One of the ladies tees actually had tee markers on them…but they were placed all the way in the back and it was on a par 5 that was one of our longest.

Some of the challenges I didn’t photograph were pin placements. Without seeing the entire green, the photos would not have shown how dastardly the putts were. One was at the top of a hill…if you didn’t sink the putt, your ball ran back down the hill.

Another was at the bottom of a hill so if it didn’t go it, it continued on it’s trip off the green. It made for precision putting.

For the 18th hole, which is a par 3, the superintendent hit the first shot. Wherever it landed was where we hit from. We started at the back of the green, just off the green. We started with a putt. Of course, it was down hill and a very tough placement. We should have birdied it…but we all missed the second shot and it flew past the hole. We didn’t quite nail that first putt. We did par it.

All in all, we had a blast. We came in at 72 -par. Unfortunately, another foursome in our flight also had a 72 so the pros did a scorecard runoff. Not sure how they did it, but they usually start with the #1 handicap hole and continue down the card by handicap, until a winner is determined.

Coming in second isn’t so bad. We get a little money added to our accounts, so it’s good for purchases in the pro shop. Works for me since you can’t have enough golf clothing

LAW 9: Palm trees eat golf balls. So do all other trees.

To view the diabolical obstacles we had to maneuver through, check out my pictures:

Superintendent’s Revenge

All the tee boxes were in the rough, except on one hole for the reds and golds. Here the men have to hit behind an environmental hazard.

This was the only tee box the ladies had to hit from that was under a tree. The others were in the rough, but in the clear.

Two mouse holes on opposite sides of this bucket greeted us on the first hole.

These obstacles made for an interesting attempt to putt

Many holes that had interesting tee box placements also had these foam plugs to make the holes smaller. You had to be right on to sink a putt with these inserts.

How about putting through a sea of tees?

This is tougher than it looks. Caroms off these tubes did nothing because they had no bounce.

As you can see, we lucked out. One of the balls landed right at the opening of the 2x4, making the putt somewhat easier.

This hole, besides having a practice tee flag which is only about 3 feet, if that much, is off the green. The good news is that the fringe could help if you hit the ball too far. We didn't need it :-)

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