Please bear with me while I vent on the 7th hole on the Blue course at Western Turnpike (Guilderland, NY) for a few sentences.
The hole is ~300 yards long. A straight par 4. Seems simple enough, right? Wrong.
* The tee shot is almost impossibly narrow. The right side is all OB and many of the limbs overhang the playing area. There are several massive trees down the left side.
* The entire fairway slopes R --> L, meaning if you want to keep it in the short grass, or away from the big trees, you have to shape a shot L --> R, or *towards* the OB.
* It's blind - you cannot see the landing area.
* A cart path runs down the right side, then at about 200 yards cuts diagonally across the fairway. Yes, there is a cart path in the fairway in the landing area.
* 2/3 of the landing area at ~240 yards is covered by a cross bunker. Again - you cannot see this from the tee. And since the fairway directs balls R --> L, a well struck drive almost has to end up here.
* There is a six-foot high ROCK WALL on the right edge of the hole that's about 80 yards in length - running from about 120 yards out to about 40 yards out. The wall is made out of landscape stones like you would use to build up a garden in your front lawn.
* The green is shaped like an inverted saucer - funneling balls off of it in all directions.
* When you get near the green, you have to ring a bell since it's a blind tee shot. There's a very short string on the bell and it's positioned ~6ft above the ground. This means that when you ring it, your ear is *right next* to the damn thing.
Additionally, I'm stubborn and refuse to hit 6-iron, PW to play this hole.
Finally, in completely unrelated news, I made triple bogey here last night on my way to a three-over par nine-hole round.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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