Just thought I'd share-
This weekend we have been hosting our local amateur golf associations Fall Medal Tournament. The tourney is comprised of three divisions, Open, Senior (50+), and Super Senior (60+) the best players in the county. Tournament days Friday, Saturday, Sunday with 18 each day stroke play.
Course set up for the week:
Water was turned off Monday Night
One lap of rough mowed daily with Toro 4700 at 2”, outer rough not mowed since Monday now at 3- 3 ¼”.
Fairways mowed at .330” with Toro 5300.
Approaches mowed at .300” with Toro 3100.
Greens mowed at .120“ with Toro 3050 triplexes - rolled Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.
Daily Yardages and Pin Setups:
Friday- Open Division ~6800yds Sr. Division ~6300yds Super Srs. ~5500yds.
Pins accessible from 300-320 degrees and fairly straight forward – a nice introduction. Couple tough, stay below the hole, pins thrown in mix.
Saturday- Open Division ~7300yds Sr. Division ~6850yds Super Srs. ~6000yds.
Pins accessible from 180-200 degrees and very difficult to reach on 5’s without high fade or ground game shot.
Sunday - Open Division ~7000yds Sr. Division ~6500yds Super Srs. ~5700yds.
6 Pins are sucker pins matched with shorter par 4’s great shot will gain strkes on the field, 6 pins are tucked for conservative smart play accessible from 270 degrees or proper angle approach, 6 pins are of average difficulty for our course and present scoring opportunity.
Feedback:
Day 1- Super Srs. - Love the course, fun thanks for having us, general stuff, played in 3:15.
Sr. Division – This place is too short, I thought we’d see more of the course, can’t hit driver, played in 4:30.
Open Division – Mums the word. They know what’s coming, played in 4:30.
Day 2- Super Srs. - Love the course, fun thanks for having us, fun pins, played in 3:30.
Sr. Division – Mixed on yardage ½ ‘bout time, ¼ to long, ¼ nuetral, How am I supposed to hit a 3 wood into those par fives and keep it close? played in 4:50.
Open Division – Good test. Knew it was coming. Quote of the day – If you just play smart and don’t bite off to much you can score out here. Played in 4:30 following Srs.
Day 3- Don’t know yet I’ll post tomorrow.
Architectural notes-
Hole 6 Biarritz Day 1- center cut valley pin 180, 165, 140
Day 2 – front left pin 170, 160,135
Day 3 – back center pin 225, 215, 185
Hole 12 Redan Day 1 – center cut 185, 160, 155
Day 2 – right pin back edge up fairway throat 258, 230, 190
Day 3 – deep left over bunker 175, 165, 160
GCA news- GCA’s own Nate Golomb sits 4 strokes back of the leader in second place in the open division with a 76, 72, 148 one of only 11 players to better first days score. Great, well thought, and well played round by the mighty Gecko!
Scores-
Start Supersenior Rd 1 Rd 2 Tot
8:00 Shilts, D 84 90 174
8:00 Kloosterman, M 77 85 162
8:10 Hubbard, T 77 78 155
8:10 Walkley, J 72 78 150
8:10 Diver, L 73 77 150
Start Senior Rd 1 Rd 2 Tot
8:20 Bosch, J 90 88 178
8:20 Luebke, D 80 87 167
8:20 DeVries, T 82 84 166
8:20 Goodman, K 80 85 165
8:30 Hackenberg, J 80 85 165
8:30 Peterson, M 85 79 164
8:30 Anderson, D 79 83 162
8:30 Wales, M 77 85 162
8:40 Randall, D 79 82 161
8:40 Dunphey, M 80 79 159
8:40 Stockdale, D 75 83 158
8:40 Alrick, L 74 81 155
8:50 McCormick, M 76 78 154
8:50 Chapman, R 76 77 153
8:50 Quinn, M 78 75 153
8:50 Schumacher, J 73 78 151
9:00 Barry, S 74 76 150
9:00 Teagarden, D 70 79 149
9:00 Swartz, D 72 73 145
9:00 Goodpaster, D 73 70 143
Start Open Rd 1 Rd 2 Tot
9:10 Seth, R 89 90 179
9:10 Hunt, B 85 93 178
9:10 Swenarton, J 89 84 173
9:10 Hatfield, M 86 87 173
9:20 LaDuke, B 79 94 173
9:20 Eubank, S 82 90 172
9:20 Diewald, B 86 85 171
9:30 Van Oosten, A 81 88 169
9:30 Cloud, S 82 87 169
9:30 Terrill, B 85 82 167
9:40 Kiel, D 83 83 166
9:40 Ely, J 80 82 162
9:40 Eberhard, T 78 83 161
9:50 Kremer, G 78 83 161
9:50 Miller, B 79 81 160
9:50 Bailey, J 77 83 160
10:00 Quinn, J 80 79 159
10:00 Bongers, T 76 83 159
10:00 Thornton, G 79 79 158
10:10 Keselowski, L 80 78 158
10:10 Smith, E 78 76 154
10:10 Conner, S 76 78 154
10:20 Hawley, M 75 80 155
10:20 Shilts, R 73 80 153
10:20 Cleasby, E 72 81 153
10:30 Stark, W 78 75 153
10:30 Gangwer, M 72 77 149
10:30 Golomb, N 76 72 148
10:30 Barry, J 71 73 144
Cheers!
JT