I just walked in from the long drive home. Thankfully, I finally motivated a home buddy to accompany me out there and share the driving.
Not all of us went to Sand Hills. My friend and I went to Bayside on Sunday because in addition to the match play finals, they had a a shotgun 230Pm start for a Nebraska club pro outting. Don Graham, the WH pro was a very busy man these last few days.
My friend Steve and I arrived Friday evening just as the youngster Hurley was teeing off from 18. I haven't seen anyone ever drive a ball up that close to the green (about 40-50 yards left strait up the gut of the green from right angle) He skipped his pitch to pin high and about 5 feet. He missed the birdie put on the razor sharp cup edges to shatter the course record at 63. He tapped in to still take the new course record at 64. It was pretty awesome to see this ~17year old. As happens, he lost the next day on the 19th hole shooting 74 in regulation.
We played Saturday morning, as Tony stated, following the match play pairings. I had my personal worst 18 there. Most of the gents headed up to SH after the morning WH. My buddy Steve and I played a second 18 and I confess (I took a cart in the heat) But, played slightly better.
Sunday, we headed up to Bayside because of all the doings at WH. I'll do another thread on Bayside. Sorry, no pictures this time.
We did return after 27 holes at Bayside to play a final 9 holes for the day, teeing off at 730Pm. Steve, the 74 year old retired Marine and I covered the course in 1.25 hours, and both shot our best rounds of the weekend. In fact I had my best 9 holes ever at WH, only once finding the "wooga" and not loosing any balls in the heaviest, most lush isolated patches of rough I've ever seen there, owing to the finally wet spring after several years of drought. After making birdie on the 9th hole, I was almost in tears that darkness closed us out, not knowing if I could have kept my best round ever at WH going...