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mark chalfant

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Preakness Hills (W. Tucker) nj
« on: May 16, 2006, 05:41:55 PM »
Ive heard the the 13th is a neat short four. Is anyone familiar
with this course, and its best attributes or standout holes
thanks

Patrick_Mucci

Re:Preakness Hills (W. Tucker) nj
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2006, 09:51:10 PM »
Mark,

I'm intimately familiar with the golf course, having played it a few times.

It's a wonderful old course with a great routing.
It's the type of golf course you never get tired of playing.

The greens tend to be small.
Originally, few if any fairway bunkers existed, but, over the years they were added randomly.
Recently the club undertook a renovation project.

Sadly, the 13th green was destroyed and rebuilt, primarily due to green speeds.

The club had three (3) two tiered greens with a substantive differential in elevation between the back and the front.

Putts hit from the top level could no longer hold the bottom level, hence the green was destroyed and rebuilt.

The par 3's provide enormous diversity.
The par 4's are also excellent.
While the par 5's are interesting, they were always compromised by a lack of length and a lack of real estate to lengthen them.

It's a wonderfully sporty golf course, with dogleg lefts, dogleg rights, uphill and downhill holes, creeks meandering through the property affecting play on about 12 holes in varying forms.

The prevailing wind is from the west.

The greens used to be all velvet bent, but now only 10 % of them are velvet.

It's on nice rolling terrain with some good elevation changes along the way.

It's a treat to play day in and day out.

Surprisingly, even though it was about 6,500 yards, it always resisted scoring very well, although, with today's equipment, I think very low scores could be shot.

mark chalfant

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Re:Preakness Hills (W. Tucker) nj
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2006, 11:43:20 AM »
Patrick thanks so muc h for your thoughtful reply. other than# 18 waht are 1 or 2 of your favorite par 3s. Also what which holes are most affected by the brook ? Do some of the par fours play uphill to plateau greens.   The terrain and routing sound great    thanks


Jim_Kennedy

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Re:Preakness Hills (W. Tucker) nj
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2006, 12:13:33 PM »
So Pat, I just played in an outing with Eric Robbins and he told me you 'accused' him of causing you to miss a double eagle. As he tells it, he was playing in a group ahead of you and they were on the 17th green, you yelled up to him to tend the flag for your 260 yard second shot on this par 5 hole and when the ball narrowly missed going in you gave him 'grief' for standing on the wrong side of the cup.  

Bad manners!  ;D  
"I never beat a well man in my life" - Harry Vardon

Patrick_Mucci

Re:Preakness Hills (W. Tucker) nj
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2006, 08:27:08 PM »

So Pat, I just played in an outing with Eric Robbins and he told me you 'accused' him of causing you to miss a double eagle. As he tells it, he was playing in a group ahead of you and they were on the 17th green, you yelled up to him to tend the flag for your 260 yard second shot on this par 5 hole and when the ball narrowly missed going in you gave him 'grief' for standing on the wrong side of the cup.  

Bad manners!  ;D  


Jim,

Eric was tending the pin with his shadow covering the cup, thus causing me to misread my approach shot and narrowly miss a double eagle.

We used to have a phrase for Eric's game.

"The sounds of Eric Robbins"

It's the sound of a golf ball ricochetting off of trees in the woods.  Eric was always pale because he rarely got the opportunity to walk down a fairway.
I used to tell him to make sure he wore his helmet when he played.

Patrick_Mucci

Re:Preakness Hills (W. Tucker) nj
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2006, 08:34:58 PM »

Patrick thanks so much for your thoughtful reply. other than# 18 waht are 1 or 2 of your favorite par 3s.

All of the par 3's are very good.
They provide great variety
# 18 120-140  two tiered green horseshoe bunker and water
#   8 140-160  contoured green with flanking bunkers
# 16  160-185  sloped green with flanking bunkers
#   6  185-230  sloped green, bunker L  Creek & OB R


Also what which holes are most affected by the brook ?
# 6, # 7, # 8, # 9, # 10, # 13, # 14, # 15 # 17 and # 18 have brooks that affect play.  # 15 and # 18 have a pond.
Some holes have flanking brooks, other crossing brooks, some holes, like # 8 and # 9 both.[/b]

Do some of the par fours play uphill to plateau greens.  

# 13 plays precipitously uphill to a two tiered green, it's a slight dogleg right, with a brook right and another brook mostly out of play left.

# 2 and # 11 also play uphill from the DZ, but the greens aren't as elevated or severe as # 13.

It's a very enjoyable golf course that will host the MGA Senior Amateur in 2009.



The terrain and routing sound great    thanks