In the latest sign that the apocalypse is upon us, I played Wicked Stick in Myrtle Beach a few days ago on a trip with a large group of customer/vendors. And no I did not have any input on the course selection thank you very much.
About the only chuckle that I got while surviving the 19degree windchill and the atrocious golf experience was when I arrived at the 14th tee box to see something I have (thankfully) never seen before. Aparently they have had trouble with people cutting the corner on this hole so they have planted a farily large tree (oak I believe) right in the front right of the elevated tee box. That is correct, here you have these series of tee box pods strung along the side of a lake and the second one from the back now has a large tree coming right out of the flat manicured top of the tee box. This now means that the entire right side of this tee box can never be used for teeing, and I guess it does accomplish its goal in that you have to play to the left more over the lake and directly at some bunkers that guard that side of the fairway. But right in the tee box? ? ? ?
If you had to do something there, how about at least regrading that side of the tee box to look like slightly sloping ground and dont continue to mow it as though it is tee box it just looked ridiculous.
Anyone else seen such abominations lets hear them, I am sure there are some good ones.