67ish (that's what the card said but I dunno) on a par 60 "executive" course. 12 par 3s, 6 par 4s. I'd never played the course before. Home course was closed for the day.
The par 3s were pretty good, a nice assortment. The par 4s were uniformly of the
W T F variety.
Seriously.
Sorry to tard up the thread with more MSPaint, but I couldn't find the course on Google Earth. One of the par 4s on the back nine was just incredible. Basically, I thought I'd found my own personal nirvana - check this hole out:
From the tips, the card said 245 yards. Standing on the tee, you could see a small patch of fairway up ahead some undefined distance. The area between the tee and the fairway at the corner wasn't really maintained. No distances anywhere. You couldn't see the green - had to ride ahead to check it out. Hard dogleg left. A wall of scruffy trees down the left side, so a fader would have zero room. Possible but hard to get a shot over the top, and who knows how far you'd have to hit it - I didn't bring my calculator. The rest of the hole was pretty much lined with weedy crap, like the course was cut out of a swamp.
Whoever designed this hole must have been on acid. Two reasonable options that I could see - hit 8 iron-wedge, or hit the mother of all hooks.
Hook? I got that shot.
Seriously. I wouldn't bet a nickel on myself to hit a slice or fade on demand, but if you ask for an 80 yard hook I'll wager my entire life savings.
This is my kind of hole.
I hit that kind of shot. Started out down the right side, slung left like a perfectly thrown frisbee, hit in what looked like the absolutely ideal spot - as far as we could tell, in the middle of the fairway. Hit the ground and kicked hard left like it was going to run up beautifully toward the green. Lost sight.
Drove up. Couldn't find it.
Fail.
I couldn't be too pissed off, though, since I had just made a birdie with style - 311 yard "par 4". Cold topped my drive about a buck twenty, then flushed a 5 iron to 18 inches. Just the way the pros do it, right?
Fun day. (oh, and thanks Aces)