I'm looking forward to meeting many who I've only had the chance to read their posts. As an old timer Lawsonia links player, I'd have to offer a small note of caution or restraint about what to expect. Of course I'm hoping for some firm conditions where the course would shine and offer it's best side, but realistically it is spring and the first weeks open of a very harsh late winter spring year. I would expect a pretty soft and slow track, with greens a bit bumpy. Our course 70 miles away is just coming around and still not nearly drained out of all the rain after heavy late snow melts.
The truly best time to see and play Lawsonia is late Sept-Oct until close each year. If nothing else, I hope the newbie introduction to Lawsonia this week will wet your appetite to make the return visit to see and play it when it is at it's yearly peak in fall.
I can't wait to see some old friends and make some new one this weekend. I will be a newbie to join up with Dan at Spring ValleyFriday, to see that Langford-Moreau design. It is actually an embarrassment that I am a native Wisconsin resident and have not seen or played it. As it is, I don't think I'll be able to join in on Sunday morning, but will play Saturday and stay for dinner and Dan's remarks. Dan has really become the GCA official expert on Langford and Moreau and Lawsonia and has done a great job in past outtings there like the Langford-Moreau tour a couple years ago at West Bend, Lawsonia, and Ozaukee.
I will bring one extra 3 wheeler Sun Mountain for any walking player that needs it. I'm walking as well. Handi index 14. And finally in the tradition of alibi, I totally changed my stance-address and gave up trying to hit draw off the tee, and for the first couple of weeks it was working out great- hitting more fairways and trusting the fade to slice. Then yesterday, the wheels came off!
That is my story and I'm sticking with it.