Ok, had to take a couple of weeks break there to concentrate on a four-week long summer session of Orgo 1.
So, instead of a full photo tour of Lawsonia, course #2 of 6 on my cheesehead-land tour, I'll just choose one photo from each hole with just a few comments. I teed off early and the weather was lousy for photos with it being misty for most of the round.
But as I think I mentioned earlier, I loved everything about Lawsonia. I had played Yale a couple of weekends earlier and the two courses are similar. Somebody called Lawsonia "Yale light", which is a pretty good quick phrase for the course. And the guys I met and the employees there made me feel right at home.
#1. I hit it left on my approach shot, just so I could get a good look at the daunting recovery shot, which it certainly was.
#2. View from over the green on this tough par 4. I'm assuming it is normally receptive to a run-up shot, but it was a bit soggy this morning so my attempt screeched to a halt.
#3. What a perfectly placed bunker that got me, and a green with way more movement to the right than I could pick up at first look.
#4. Pretty good Redan-inspired 1-shotter.
#5. I would need to play this nice par 5 more to see why exactly it is the No. 1 stroke hole at less than 500 yards, but maybe the bogey golfer gets in trouble over the green, as this view shows.
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#6. Loved the green on this par 4. A great pin location this day.
#7. Miss the green on this par 3 and good luck making par.
#8. Really liked some of the bunkering and, I guess, created landforms, like this left off the tee.
#9. Nice, wide view from the par 5 9th tee:
#10. Tough, long par 3 to open the back nine.
#11. Nice view on the approach of this par 5.
#12. Another nice green on this par 3.
#13. Probably my favorite hole at LL, here's a neat view from the start of the fw on this par 5.
#14. A little breather par 3:
#15. Nice view from the tee on this dogleg right par 4.
#16. View from just over the green on this longer par 4.
#17. Approach shot view on this par 4.
#18. Tee shot view on this closing 3-shotter.