What's your golf hole nemesis? What hole on what course owns you?
#1 at Pacific Dunes.
I love that course, probably my favorite place in the world.
The anticipation of my next trip, the herculean effort to get there, the joy of getting on the shuttle en route to the clubhouse, stepping to the first tee and knowing the next ten minutes of pain will be followed by four hours of pure bliss. That is #1 at Pacific Dunes to me.
I would hazard a guess, that relative to par, I am the most strokes on the wrong side there then any hole at Pacific Dunes. When I walk to #2 with a five on my card it may as well be a birdie.
I have hit everything from driver to six iron - and am I am either long right or short right off the tee – every time. I can't even tell you the last time I hit the fairway or I actually saw the green on my approach shot.
Before my last trip this March I even went out an bought an "easy to hit" hybrid just for that one shot - and I still ended up on the right...even further right than the last time....
That hole eats my lunch, has my number, kicks my backside...
What makes it worse is that it starts by day at one of my favorite places in the world!