McBrides will be okay, we are in Portland visiting our daughter on a long-planned vacation trip that started 9/8 in Vancouver. We return to Pensacola Sunday, undoubtedly to no electricity, trees down everywhere, and flooded lowlands. If you haven't been through a hurricane of Ivan's proportions, consider yourself lucky. I'm sure the Central Florida guys are sick and tired of Bonnie, Charlie and Frances
With regard to Pensacola CC, we have hosted first stage Q school three times now. The 72 hole scores for the qualifiers have been -16 to -2. The course is no pushover primarily because of the small, slightly elevated greens and tricky contours around the greens. As Mike mentioned, the 14th green is almost non-existent to be at the end of a 560 yd par 5, maybe 1800 SF. It was the smallest on the PGA Tour for years when the Pensacola Open was played here for many years.
The course plays well beyond its 6600 yds because we are at dead sea level and the water table is high. Not a lot of run at PCC.
Q School participants will score well if their iron play is accurate, tee shots are in the right place for best angles into those tiny greens, and the short game is strong.
Keep your fingers crossed about Ivan. Our house is secured, our dogs are in a safe kennel, our cars in one of our empty warehouses. Our prayers are with all the people in the area of potential destruction.