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Tom Huckaby

Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #50 on: August 28, 2008, 05:15:16 PM »
Ian - GREAT call - and you just explained to slow ole me why I tend to score so well at Lake Chabot... I am pretty darn good off the tee, mediocre with irons.  Thus I don't tend to have the blowups others do there, and if my mediocre iron game is on for a day, well voila, low score.  Man we might as well call this Huckaby National it's so geared to me.

 ;D

Ian_L

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #51 on: August 28, 2008, 05:33:15 PM »
And I'm the opposite, which is probably why I've harbored some bad feelings toward Chabot in the past, hehe.

Tom Huckaby

Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #52 on: August 28, 2008, 05:34:39 PM »
And I'm the opposite, which is probably why I've harbored some bad feelings toward Chabot in the past, hehe.

Well, Ian, we have the makings of a damn good foursomes team someday... at least on half the holes.

 ;D

TX Golf

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #53 on: August 28, 2008, 05:41:55 PM »
Any chance you guys would want to get together and tee it up on one of these courses?? I was thinking I could get us on Cypress but who would want that when we have Chabot right down the road.  :D ;D

Tom Huckaby

Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #54 on: August 28, 2008, 05:43:25 PM »
Any chance you guys would want to get together and tee it up on one of these courses?? I was thinking I could get us on Cypress but who would want that when we have Chabot right down the road.  :D ;D

Yeah really, why settle for second best?  ;D

Man I'd love to play Lake Chabot again.  My life is sadly soccer-impacted, however.  But maybe someday....


Kalen Braley

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #55 on: August 28, 2008, 05:44:59 PM »
Any chance you guys would want to get together and tee it up on one of these courses?? I was thinking I could get us on Cypress but who would want that when we have Chabot right down the road.  :D ;D

Robert,

I'd love to go hit Lake Chabot, but I'm out of state now.  While I do miss it, I've got plenty of other courses to keep my interest here.

I'm curious what everyones take on #5.  As a medium to short hitter I always thought it was odd because half the time I couldn't carry the road and would either get a bounce off the hill or on the road for extra yardage.

I do like that you can hit it way out to the right, even though it leads to an awkward approach where you must hit it over the "batting cage" as I like to call it for the 6th tee.

TX Golf

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #56 on: August 28, 2008, 05:48:54 PM »
Sounds good guys. I am actually out of town as well right now (I go to school in Dallas) but was going to be home a few times in the near future. If you ever have some spare time and are interested in teeing it up, let me know. Where do you guys currently live??

Kalen Braley

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #57 on: August 28, 2008, 05:51:49 PM »
I'm in Utah....Salt Lake City area.

If you're ever in town, we'll go play some real courses instead of that trashy quirky dump they call Lake Chabot!!  ;D

Tom Huckaby

Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #58 on: August 28, 2008, 05:55:21 PM »
LOL!

Trashy quirky dump sums it up pretty darn well.  But darn it I do love this course.

I live in San Jose - geography is not my issue.  But let's do keep in touch.

Re #5, that is a weird one, but I've always looked at in in a baseball sense also - bashing one over the road is a home run.

In any case, best to just stay right - the batting cage by 6 tee ought not to be in play unless you get it really far down there.  Speaking of that, I wonder... a big bomber could likely reach that green.  I've never come close.  But I bet someome could...

TH

Kalen Braley

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #59 on: August 28, 2008, 06:00:11 PM »
LOL!

Trashy quirky dump sums it up pretty darn well.  But darn it I do love this course.

I live in San Jose - geography is not my issue.  But let's do keep in touch.

Re #5, that is a weird one, but I've always looked at in in a baseball sense also - bashing one over the road is a home run.

In any case, best to just stay right - the batting cage by 6 tee ought not to be in play unless you get it really far down there.  Speaking of that, I wonder... a big bomber could likely reach that green.  I've never come close.  But I bet someome could...

TH

Lol...never thought of it that way.  Well you may have hit a bunch of home-runs but I racked up my fair share of ground rule doubles on that hole.   :D

I've always thought that hole was driveable.  On the one time my tee ball landed on the road, I recall only having 60 yards into the green with the massive bounce I got.

As for the batting cage, that was always a great spot to be because

1)  Your protected
2)  You can watch back to 5 tee and catch any fireworks.  I know there was at least a few times when you or someone in the group would hit your tee shot, and then a car would come driving thru at the entrance to the course. 

Ahhhh fun stuff!!! Man we need a GCA event there.  I'd love to see some of the bigger dongers go for the green on 16 and home in 2 on 18.  ;D

Tom Huckaby

Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #60 on: August 28, 2008, 06:02:13 PM »
Damn right!

16 in particular would be fun to watch.  Massive risk/reward there... that fence to the right is very very much in play.  And oh yes, I have little doubt reaching 18 in two would be done.  Lots of action holes there at Chabot....

TH

Ian_L

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #61 on: August 28, 2008, 06:03:07 PM »
I think the thing that saves hole 5 from being too dull is that the green slopes well from right to left, leaving the hitter that missed to the right a very difficult shot to hold the green, unless he bounces it on the fringe or rough.  I foolishly sat in someone's cart by the 6th tee on Sunday, and one ball from the group behind us went under the cart, and the other was a bladed shot that hit the dashboard!  I also saw a golf cart catch air off the road after riding down from the without brakes. :P

I saw somebody drive it to the left fringe on #3 at Tilden (white tees).  He then bladed his 20-foot chip over the green...

I'll also be away for the school year Robert. ;)

Kalen Braley

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #62 on: August 28, 2008, 06:11:41 PM »
I think the thing that saves hole 5 from being too dull is that the green slopes well from right to left, leaving the hitter that missed to the right a very difficult shot to hold the green, unless he bounces it on the fringe or rough.  I foolishly sat in someone's cart by the 6th tee on Sunday, and one ball from the group behind us went under the cart, and the other was a bladed shot that hit the dashboard!  I also saw a golf cart catch air off the road after riding down from the without brakes. :P


Funny story Ian,

The best one I can recall is walking to the 9th green after the tee shot.  I was playing with a guy who was using a push cart.  Anyways, he tried taking that sucker right down the steep hillside on the way down to the green.  He lost his grip on it about half way down and it tumbled, crashed, rolled all the way to the bottom.

Lake Chabot is ghetto-fabulous I think. You just never know what your going to find, see, experience out there. 

TX Golf

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #63 on: August 28, 2008, 06:14:32 PM »
The most impressive part about the things you see out there has to be the people. The golf channel should dump the big break and just film some of the oddballs you find out there!!!

Kalen Braley

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #64 on: August 28, 2008, 06:18:14 PM »
The most impressive part about the things you see out there has to be the people. The golf channel should dump the big break and just film some of the oddballs you find out there!!!

And the review isn't complete without mention of the dumpy range, where you can only hit 5 iron or less, IIRC.

Hell, it'd make a good course for the big break to film at...they could come up with all kinds of crazy shots and challenges out there.  If they want to turn 18 back into a real par 6, they can just use the tees for 15.  I want to see someone get home in 2 from there.  ;)

Ian_L

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #65 on: August 28, 2008, 06:24:09 PM »
I don't usually laugh out loud when I read, but I sure did with those posts!  I've seen balls land 20 yards long on the 9th and somehow bounce onto the green...

They could play the course backwards... imagine that on 9 and 18!

I think the sign on the range says: "SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE OF NO NET. PLEASE USE 6-IRON to SW"

TX Golf

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #66 on: August 28, 2008, 06:27:17 PM »
After thinking about it a while.... it wouldn't be all that impossible to play the course backwards. You might have to start out with a par 8 and reroute a few holes, but not impossible. That would be a pretty wild experience.

Kalen Braley

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #67 on: August 28, 2008, 06:42:27 PM »
After thinking about it a while.... it wouldn't be all that impossible to play the course backwards. You might have to start out with a par 8 and reroute a few holes, but not impossible. That would be a pretty wild experience.

I wouldn't even want to think about how you would get from 16 green, back over to 15 green.  You'd have to tee off with a wedge and then hit a long iron over the trees.  Playing from 13 green to 12 green would be an absolute nightmare...you'd almost have to make that a par 5 with the preposterous nature of the long iron shot requirement on that one. 

#3 green to #2 green would sure be fun crossing over the road and #11 fairway...woot!

And trying to play 9 backwards would almost be impossible.  But it'd sure be fun as hell trying.  ;)

TX Golf

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #68 on: August 28, 2008, 06:47:18 PM »
I guess we could start a separate little thread.... what course can you think of that would be the best to play backwards. There have been a few courses that I think could potentially be better if originally set up in the opposite direction.

Ian_L

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #69 on: August 28, 2008, 06:56:36 PM »
I think 14th tee to the 12 green would be fascinating.  Imagine trying to lay up short of the bushes on the severe downhill shot.  You'd only have a 100 yards max left to the green, which would be almost completely blind.  12th tee to the 10th green would be interesting too, with the fairway snaking through the trees.  With a few tree cuttings, and a solution for 9 and 18, it could be an interesting experience!

TX Golf

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #70 on: August 28, 2008, 06:59:04 PM »
Nine would be the only hole that would truly be unplayable. Uphill 18 might play like more of a par 6, as long as when you hit the ball up the hill it didn't come tumbling back towards you and end up 100 yards behind you.

Tim Leahy

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #71 on: August 29, 2008, 01:50:58 PM »
Count me in for a GCA event here, I have never played the pitch & putt which would be fun with this group. I can't even imagine playing 18 backwards, you guys are warped. I wouldn't mention the oddballs to Raymond Chester! :o
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Kyle Henderson

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #72 on: August 29, 2008, 06:59:27 PM »
This thread inspired me to play Lake Chabot yesterday. It was a fun course when I was just starting (2001) and shooting in the 120's, and it's still fun now that I'm saving several dozen more strokes per round. The 18th is one of the great closing tee shots in golf. There' nothing like piping a 450 + yard drive, or shaking your head after wasting the opportunity.
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Bradley Anderson

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #73 on: August 29, 2008, 07:09:50 PM »
Give the superintendent of this course a raise. Wow what a presentation of a tough piece of property to manage.

Ken McGlynn

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Re: Lake Chabot Golf Course (with pics)
« Reply #74 on: September 04, 2008, 05:14:09 PM »
Having cut my golfing teeth as a young lad growing up in Oakland, I'd say Lake Chabot over Tilden by a nose. In the late 60s, into the early 70s, Chabot was always better maintained. Tilden may have been prettier, but Chabot had greens you could actually roll a putt on and fairway lies w/o mud everywhere.

Two rounds I had at Chabot will always stand out. Eagling 3 holes on the front nine (3, 4 and 8 ) and somehow shooting a 45 for the nine. The card was something like this: 853 366 536. A quad, a triple, 4 doubles, and 3 eagles! The other was taking a power cart with my beginning golfer sister, and watching in horror as she lost control of the cart going from the 8th green to the 9th tee. She jumped out, the clubs went flying, and the cart was absolutely destroyed as it fell all the way to the bottom, a drop of at least 200 feet. Forever etched in my mind.

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