A Perfect Golf Hole

[Neil Regan]

Naffer gets high.

[Paul_Turner]

He finally hit a fairway?

[THuckaby2]

He's stoked because you let him play the up tees?

[Mike Benham]

1.  He saw a rattlesnake ...

2.  "We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of SH ..."

[Scott_Burroughs]

Neil,

You're getting a little too serious with your pics, you
copyrighted it!  Now I can't "steal" it for my own personal use
without the expressed written consent....  


I think Noel was just happy to be there, considering he'll have
a much shorter leash for travelling to places like this after the
upcoming wedding.

[Neil Regan]

Scott,
  The copyright © is there more to protect the club.

[ed_getka]

Well what did you guys think? You went to SH and you don't have anything to say?

[RJ_Daley]

Tom that is the 14th back tee.  I think he is just doing the leaprecaun leap and clicking his heels like he learned from you.

Neil, is that from this week.  Conditions look primo...

[Scott_Burroughs]

Tom that is the 14th back tee.

RJ,

If you inspect the aerial and the walking paths between the
tees (dead center), that is the middle tee, not the back tee
in the picture above:

[RJ_Daley]

You must work for the CIA Scott!

Well... actually, they don't seem to be as precise in their intel as you!

[THuckaby2]

Thanks, Scott.  Hell all I knew in my smartass
comment directed at Noel is that the view
just didn't look "right", as I recalled it from
the back tee... you would have seen the
middle tee in front of you....

So Noel, where's the skirt?

TH

ps - just kidding, obviously.  I believe I'm the one
who first said Sand Hills is Shinnecock from the tips,
NGLA from the middle.  Hopefully you know what
I mean by that.  

[Scott_Burroughs]

Thanks, Scott.  Hell all I knew in my smartass
comment directed at Noel is that the view
just didn't look "right", as I recalled it from
the back tee... you would have seen the
middle tee in front of you....

So Noel, where's the skirt?

TH

ps - just kidding, obviously.  I believe I'm the one
who first said Sand Hills is Shinnecock from the tips,
NGLA from the middle.  Hopefully you know what
I mean by that.  

Um, no.  Unless you were talking to Noel.

[THuckaby2]

From the up tees, it's very very fun, with lots
of strategic decisions to be made, and can
be had score-wise - like NGLA.

From the back tees, it can be brutally hard,
with mostly perfect shots required to score
decently - like Shinnecock.

Or at least it seemed that way to me.

 

From all the talk here, you can imagine the
comparison even if you haven't played
these courses, right?

[Scott_Burroughs]

It was the comparisons I couldn't relate to personally, but I
knew what you meant.  

[Mike Nuzzo]

Scott,
I'm guessing that the image should be copyrighted as it's not a photo.  Neil adds his oil painting impressionistic flavor to these images..see the other sand hills photo too.  

also when's AOTD coming back...I miss it, obviously not for a long stint, just a Seinfeld reunion of sorts.

Neil,
Copyright them all...they look great.
and if the naffer is on his way down, just how high was he??

Cheers

[Scott_Burroughs]

Scott,
I'm guessing that the image should be copyrighted as it's not a photo.  Neil adds his oil painting impressionistic flavor to these images..see the other sand hills photo too.

I was only messing with Neil about the copyright stuff.  I
steal the stuff anyways.    

also when's AOTD coming back

Been too busy for too long at work (despite today's posts)
and haven't finished putting them all together at home.  Think
I need to capture a few first as well.

[Mike_Cirba]

Young Zen student Noel's first somewhat clumsy attempts at levitation.  

[NAF]

First of all I must humbly accept the harmony of the experience which was engendered by the sense of place Sand Hills is.  Secondly, I must submit that Neil Regan's patience was called into order as I was having problems hitting fairways (Yes Paul Turner you are correct).. But after the joy of watching a ball fly so long and fly so high and fall against a sky so blue, I felt the need to jump. It was an attempt at levitation.. I think I must be 6 feet off the ground.  So yes, there is a true joy in the experience of being there.

Later the next day, Neil and I went to play 9 holes during the MAGIC HOUR as Tommy would put it.  The only experience I can liken to that is the movie Field of Dreams..

But I am getting too voodoo spooky here but maybe it is more about golf when you are in Hooker County.

[ed_getka]

Noel,
   You picked a great hole to hit the fairway on. It is one of the best par 5's in the world IMO. How did the subsequent shots go?
   If SH isn't golf heaven, it comes darn close. It is the course/setting I most look forward to returning to.