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Bob_Huntley:
In the California State Amateur Championship Qualifier yesterday, only two of the top fourteen scores came out of Spyglass Hill. The players were raving about the good condition and the green speeds.

THuckaby2:
Bob - when we did the NCGA rating a few weeks ago, one and all were very impressed with how FIRM the greens were... I sure didn't remember balls bouncing on those greens but they surely did.  Drainage seems to have been really improved also throughout.  I came away thinking previous statements as do the death of the Glass due to horrid conditions were GREATLY exaggerated.   ;)

Of course all good feeling was tempered by the weeping at the death of a formerly unique golf hole, #16.  It's still a decent hole, and it's never going to be easy, but it stands today as a mere shadow of its former terrifying self.

All in all, the Glass remains a damn fine course, very suited to holding competitions such as the State Am going on now.  

TH

A_Clay_Man:
Bob- Thinking about it, does that mean they were slow? Otherwise, one would expect a bitchfest if they were truely firm and fast. There is nothing more diabolical than those greens at lightening speeds.

THuckaby2:
Adam:

Again, I was there a few weeks ago and at that time, the greens were pretty damn fast... not lightning, but say 9 on stimp... If anything what I would have called them was PERFECT.  Yes, given the contours, any faster and it would have been bitchfest central yesterday.

It did surprise me how firm they were though - I sure don't ever remember those greens being firm EVER, although I'm sure you know better.  It made a tough course even tougher in my mind... but if anything it made it how it "should be", if that makes any sense.

TH

Tiger_Bernhardt:
I have never shot in the 70's there. I love the Glass and hope to play 18 good holes there one day. I am glad to see some respect on here for one of the better courses around. Hail forever to the 4th.

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