I remember back to the good 'ole days with the GBO, The World Swing and the PGA Tour including the European Tour.
Those were good times playing out of Gamespy.
GBO Dave is still playing over at PGLS (Jack Nicklaus Perfect Golf)
They have several tours over there. A good game but unfinished!
Howdy! Sleeping Bear is really difficult. You cannot go into your round without knowing this in advance and embracing it. The wind is really scaring me next round...
One reason for the round 1 mild conditions were for you to get familiar with the course before the winds pickup.
Jeff has done a great job making this a thinking man's course. Everything from the tee to green has to be thought out.
It's a must to get close to the hole as possible so your setup from the fairway has to be spot on.
here's my second round at Sleeping Bear Downs. Started off well with a couple of birdies and then the course fought back. Thankfully, my putter and Lady Luck smiled on me and I managed to get home with a score that I was very happy with.
This course never ceases to amaze! You hit what you think is a poor approach (as I did on 18), and then the green kicks it 45 degrees to the right and you are left with a short putt, albeit never flat! Gotta love that.
My first round... I´m in love with this course... the finals holes 16-17-18th, are simple, a beauty. What an art work, Jeff! i would like to see the scores with strong winds and hard greens... like this course should play in real conditions... Anyway, congratulations, Jeff, you´re an outstanding designer... i would like to see you working at Pacific Dunes, a course that need a great designer as well.
Round 2. I'll have to apologize to the greenskeeper for chipping on the green several times when faced with quite the awkward uphill or extreme slope. I know in the past some purists frowned upon it. It really didn't help me anyway though, and I might have been better off just putting.
Just watched Juan's first round and I think it is fair to say that he struggled to keep it out of the sand, and this course is hard enough from the green stuff. His back nine was quite good, but the damage had been done, so a good score was always going to be hard to get.
just watched Tarheel's second round against my own and there was nothing in it for the first nine holes.
After being successful chipping in from off and on the green, he chose to continue chipping on the green on the back nine. I putted, and that proved to be the difference in the end, as he was unsuccessful in all of his attempts to chip in on the back nine. As he indicated, perhaps he needed to rethink this approach.
Personally, when I see greens like this, I just love the challenge of putting on them (as I do in real golf).
