My son and I played the US Open golf course last weekend. Here is what the course did to me (on the left). A 49 on the front nine for me. We only got in 4 holes on the back. I did par the last hole I played in the dark.
My son fared better shooting a 38 on the front and was 2 over after 4 holes on the back. He was ecstatic. Here are a couple of note worthy things about the course..note worthy because of what the course in lacking.
1) There are no holes in the practice putting greens.
2) There is no chipping on the practice greens
3) There are no practice bunkers.
4) There is no grass driving range. Just a little facility with matts. (They use a couple of fairways from one of the other courses for the range during the open.
5) There is no using of drivers on the practice range.
6) The greens are not that fast and they have very little slope. They are huge however.
7) The rough around the fairways in not that high.
8) There are no ball washers.
9) There are no yardage stakes. Just very infrequent marking on sprinkler heads. Want to know how far to carry a bunker? Good luck. Hope you bought a yardage book, GPS or rangefinder. Your going to need it, because the bunkers are set up where you absolutely need to know their distance to determine where to aim your tee shot or approach shot.
10) There are no course marshals. Play is agonizingly slow. A 6 hour round in typical.
11) It seems a lot of people who play the course cant read the famous sign shown in the pictures above. A couple of guys in the group ahead of us couldn't get their tee shots past the ladies tees (Invoking a rather embarrassing and unfortunate rule)
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