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Originally Posted by campfirewest
Congrats! CGC seems like a brutal course. I'm scared to think of what I would shoot on it.
What did they change at Commonground? I was surprised at how high the scoring was there. In CGA Fourball's guys have gone deep, but it didn't seem like anyone did that. I heard the pin locations were super tough.
They used the back tee on 16 for the tee on hole 8, which turned that from a 330 par 4, to 425 or something... actually an awesome change. They then added a back tee that opened 2 weeks ago on 9, that adds another 40 or so yards. It's behind the back tee on 11, which they moved up one tee box and made a par 4. So it's a par 70 with an extra 200 yards over where you'd normally see it. They used the back tee on 3, 4, and 5, as well as the back tee on 13 which makes it ~465.
I thought they actually set up the pins a fair bit more fairly than they did for the US Open local qualifier the last 2 years.
I've played it like 30 times, so I'm comfortable. I shot a 73 and only hit 8 greens... There was definitely a 65 out there if you hit it better than a 10 handicapper. Greens were the best I've ever seen them out there. I easily made 100 feet of putts.
CGC was set up like a US Open.
edit: Also bent my 60 giving it a quick grip slam in a moment of frustration, so I had to chip with my 54 on the last 6 holes... and I chipped on every one of them. That was a fun adjustment.