The W&L golf team finished in a rare three-way tie for second place at the Virginia State Intercollegiate Championship, four shots behind Randolph-Macon College. After a mediocre first day, we shot the lowest second-day score to not completely embarass ourselves in an event we had a very good chance to win. Anyway...
The VSGA had us playing the Shamokin and Tuckahoe nines at the 27-hole Stoney Creek facility at the foot of the mountain where the main resort is perched. The Shamokin and Monacan nines comprise the original 18, ca. 1998. The Tuckahoe was added a couple years ago, also designed by Rees Jones.
I have intensely mixed feelings about Wintergreen. Being that it is a resort course, I'd say that as such, it's functional. But for me, it is not a course I would want to go out of my way to play. I normally don't mind the Rees Jones look (i.e. mounds up and down the holes, deep circular bunkers) since at its best it can evoke a bit of Raynor's look, but all the artificial mounds were off-putting. Some holes had pretty grand views of the mountains, but even so, the course seemed short on "wow" factor. The Tuckahoe nine played like a completely different golf course, with zoysia tees and fairways and new greens that were different from the Shamokin nine. I liked the closing hole on Tuckahoe, a long par 5 that wanders off to the right, but the green is visible from the tee and the mountains provide a nice backdrop. Bunkers are all down the right and the green has a nice amount of movement. A pretty good hole...not too encouraging when it's the best hole out there.