The Jump @ County Sligo # 5
Well done Mike, I was going to nominate ‘the jump’ earlier today but without a photo I figured, what's the point they wouldn’t understand?
So you tee off here and the ball hangs in the air forever. It's got to be 300' down to that fairway, the only course I've ever played where in order to walk down to the fairway you have to negotiate a couple of hairpin bends.
I've often thought that most people on this group have been playing too long to remember some of the first pleasures you get from playing golf. They have forgotten that when you start playing you don't give a rats a*** for the flight of the ball or the sound off the club, you just want to see that pure white thing fly high up into the sky. And for a few seconds on that tee I was Shivas Irons, I was the ball flying high into the sky, gliding gently down to the earth below. I parred the hole off 22 and I still get a warm feeling telling you about it now.
Two other thoughts.
I’ve been told that a couple of years ago Colt’s original plans for the course turned up – anyone know anything about them?
Secondly were those bunkers always supposed to be in the rough?
Mike you obviously played on a good sunny day. If you’ve got a picture, like Ran’s of the 17th from behind the green with a blue sky I’d love to see it. (Not a hole where you want to hit your drive a long way).