I can see the future, and it is......Limo Golf!
Before teeing off at Serendipity Hills, you are introduced to your personal caddy and your limo driver. The tee is elevated, and the hole turns seamlessly with the land, gently to the right. The caddy hands you your driver, you manage to play the required power fade to position A, and you two walk down the exquisitely and tastefully designed golf hole with only the birds, your fellow competitors and their caddies for company. The hole is a blatant tribute to the 1st at Shinnecock, but at 472, more in tune with the modern game.
After a satisfying par, you step back into the strectch limo, whilst your caddy and the clubs go into a modified "rumble seat" in the back. You drive for 3-5 minutes on the peaceful roads of Serendipity Estates, a gated community with 2-acre zoning, where every property looks like Beaver Cleaver's house on designer steroids. You sip champagne and watch the videos of your shots on the last hole.
A mile or two later, you turn down a secluded lane and arrive at the 2nd tee. Your caddy jumps out with your bag and hands you your 3-iron. It is a reverse Redan that even CB McDonald would be proud of that fits the lie of the land like a glove. You wait for the lone deer to cross the hitting zone before playing, and then hit a solid shot that unforturnately does not cut and leaves you with an awkward chip from the left side up onto the green and then down the hill. Despite a good chip and a solidly struck 12-foot putt, you get 4. Before you get back into the limo, your caddy hands you the video clip from the last hole. "Pro," he says. "I think you're not getting the proper weight shift on those long irons. Try to hit through them a bit more."
You get in the limo, load the video, add a bit of peach schnapps to your Cristal and try to work out the minor flaws in your swing. Fortunately, the drive between #2 and #3 at SH is a long one, as it travels through the "Billionaries Row" subdivision. All you can see are trees and iron gates and the occasional domestic servant driving by in their Lexus on the way to work. You need a special permit to drive or walk or bicycle on these roads, but fortunately the security tags on your limo are up to date and you are waved through every 400 meters or so by the electronic guards.
Arriving on the 3rd tee, you can see why VGCA (Virtual Golf Club Atlas) praised this as "One of the finest and most original golf holes ever "found" by enhanced GPS." It is the site of an old Native American burial ground which the developer traded for some flatland 20 miles away (discretely hidden behind the 15th of SH) where the Sitting Bulls' Revenge Casino complex built and owned by the Fugawee tribe now resides. The hole is a 747 yard hole called "Holy Jumbo!" It twists and turns with the land and the burial mounds and Cooreshaw's Creek, around and then up Hacker's HIll to a green site which the Fugawees until recently considered to be the most sacred land on earth. Sernedipity Hills respects this history by REQUIRING a lift, clean and drop under Rule 25 for any ball interfered with by an exposed bone or other artefact. While it is said that Michelle Wie once reached this green in 2, most mortals must rely on a solid 300 yard lay up left of the first burial mound. A full throttle 300 yard 3 wood uphill to the "Plateau of the Would Be Gods" and then a blind uphill 54.7 degree wedge to the table top green. You are happy with your 6.
From the green, 1000 feet above the level of the first tee, you can see almost all of the golf course. All that is not immediately visible are holes 7 and 8, which lie behind Mount Mazuma to the east which, it is said, were found by the architect only through the serendipty of a helicopter guidance malfunction during the routing process. Hence the name of the development and the course...............
I'm with you, Dano, all the way.