Re: The OS Golfer's Thread!
I continued on my fall tour of golf this week. Just got home from a week back home in Wisconsin. We played some nice courses. I started with my home course I grew up on, and finished with the club I played a good bit when I was still in Wisconsin, fired 79’s at both, but I’m the middle we sprinkled in Whistling Straits and the River Course at Blackwolf Run.
What a delight both courses are. Ive played both a few times before, but everyone I played with was getting their first look at them, so that was fun to be a part of. My pops even got to play the River course with us. It was my first time playing them in five years so it was a nice refresher.
The Straits course continues to be a gritty, grotesque, yet elegant and beautiful test of golf. The wind off the lake will always dictate how your round goes. Plenty of pros have called it the most brutal walk on tour, and that she is. Always known as a physical test, having to manipulate shots, especially through the back nine, based on the wind was an incredible time. Fired an 84, which I will absolutely take on that track.
Now comes the mental test of the group. The River Course is a true thinking course. Beautiful and flawless, immaculate greens. The perfect counterpart to Straits. The River is in the top three most difficult courses I’ve ever played, and it’s well deserved. Pete Dye must have been pissed off when he designed this track. But what a test she is. I followed up my 84 at Straits with another 84 here, which I will absolutely take.
I can not recommend this complex enough. To me it’s the second best golf trip you can make in this country, only to Bandon. The courses offer such contrast to each other and are such different tests in different ways. Two absolute musts to check off for any golf nut.
Some views.
I continued on my fall tour of golf this week. Just got home from a week back home in Wisconsin. We played some nice courses. I started with my home course I grew up on, and finished with the club I played a good bit when I was still in Wisconsin, fired 79’s at both, but I’m the middle we sprinkled in Whistling Straits and the River Course at Blackwolf Run.
What a delight both courses are. Ive played both a few times before, but everyone I played with was getting their first look at them, so that was fun to be a part of. My pops even got to play the River course with us. It was my first time playing them in five years so it was a nice refresher.
The Straits course continues to be a gritty, grotesque, yet elegant and beautiful test of golf. The wind off the lake will always dictate how your round goes. Plenty of pros have called it the most brutal walk on tour, and that she is. Always known as a physical test, having to manipulate shots, especially through the back nine, based on the wind was an incredible time. Fired an 84, which I will absolutely take on that track.
Now comes the mental test of the group. The River Course is a true thinking course. Beautiful and flawless, immaculate greens. The perfect counterpart to Straits. The River is in the top three most difficult courses I’ve ever played, and it’s well deserved. Pete Dye must have been pissed off when he designed this track. But what a test she is. I followed up my 84 at Straits with another 84 here, which I will absolutely take.
I can not recommend this complex enough. To me it’s the second best golf trip you can make in this country, only to Bandon. The courses offer such contrast to each other and are such different tests in different ways. Two absolute musts to check off for any golf nut.
Some views.
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