Miscellaneous pics of courses played:
Mammoth Dunes:
4th hole
5th hole:
6th hole:
2nd shot on 7:
10th hole:
11th hole:
13
14 - my group had two looks at eagle inside 20 feet. And technically, my 130 foot putt probably counted as a third even if it never made it to within 30 feet of the hole.
15
Sand Valley
2nd shot at 4
5
5 tee, looking out across the landscape to 6
Pine Hills Country Club was the revelation of the trip. It was drizzly and I only caught a couple pics right around the clubhouse, but I can't believe how much I thoroughly enjoyed this golf course.
Behind the pro shop, with 8 playing toward us down the right side, and 10 playing away down the left. Photos flatten things, but this at least gives some sense of the exceptional land movement and natural features on the property. It's a hilly but very rewarding walk.
9 green - maybe this gives SOME sense of just how excellent a set of greens Pine Hills has. Again, photos flatten things. My best two-putt of the week came from above this hole, while a playing partner had two shots hit the front portion of the green only to watch the ball feed back and into a fronting bunker.
Blackwolf Run Meadow Valleys
Approach to 13... such a cool little par 4
Approach to 14... such a cool big-ass tough-as-hell par 4
16 approach
Lawsonia Links
6th approach. Why do we love the holes that hurt us?
An unmemorable hole that I doubt anyone has ever seen a photo of
Looking out across the back 9 from 11 tee - 11 down the left, 13 coming back at us down the right
Slowly but surely making our way to 16 green
Approach to 17
Looking across the back 9 while making the way up 16 - a beautiful view brings on the melancholy feeling of realizing that a day at Lawsonia never lasts forever