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JMorgan

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Leatherstocking GC - Back Nine
« on: September 28, 2006, 08:13:57 PM »
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No. 10 384 Par 4 tee.  Best line of play is left-center.


Approach from the right.  The mound protecting the green will kick the ball into the mini hillside apple orchard.


Approach from the left.


Rear of the green.  My second shot wound up in the little bunker.  


No. 11 560 Par 5 tee.  Cue chainsaw.


No. 11 fairway


No. 11 approach.


11 green.


No. 12 137 Par 3.  Just far enough back not to be a drop shot.


No. 13 342 Par 4 tee.  


No. 13 fairway upon clearing the fairway bunkers.


The tiny #13 green.


Another shot of 13 green.  If you are going to miss, miss right, where a foot deep bunker will allow for an easy recovery.  Otherwise, it is a slightly kinder version of #7.


No. 14 285 Par 4 tee.  This hole is shorter than its classic short par 4 design shortness might suggest -- does that makes any sense?


No. 14 fairway.


No. 14 green from rear.  My tee shot cleared the green, almost landing OOB in the Fenimore Estate, and I had to pitch back on.  Choose your club wisely, esp. in windy conditions.


No. 15 462 Par 5 tee.  To the right, unseen, is another gouged out grass pit.  To the left is the best shot.  Unfortunately, there is that big tree in the way.  (I suggested "Morgan's Tree" to the pro shop staff.  They are taking it under consideration.)


No. 15 fairway right, just beyond the pit.  The best approach is left, or you will be stuck with a very uneven lie.


No. 15 fairway bunker, which claimed my attempt at a low second shot as the wind kicked up.  


No. 15 green.  You do not want to be long.


The rear drops straight off, and the Coopertown C.C.'s maintenance road's next stop is the first tennis court.


No. 16 366 Par 4 tee.  The bunkers guard the best line of approach to the green.


Approach to No. 16 from right...


... and from the left.  Tiny, tiny green.


No. 17 182 Par 3 tee.  Wind is a huge factor in club selection here.


The green, the wind.


No. 18 515 Par 5, which bends a full 180 degrees around the lake shore!  


... and another angle, with the green across the lake in front of the Otesaga Hotel.


Looking back as the storm rolls in.


A sweet two-tiered green with an open approach for a gentle finish after the tee-induced adrenalin rush.








Dan Boerger

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Re:Leatherstocking GC - Back Nine
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2006, 08:20:43 PM »
Wow. Those are really great photos. For a number of years I went to a charity wine auction and stayed at the Hotel and played the course the next day.

What a neat shot of the storm rolling in.

I also recall a neat 9 hole track at the top of the lake.
"Man should practice moderation in all things, including moderation."  Mark Twain

Evan Fleisher

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Re:Leatherstocking GC - Back Nine
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2006, 09:55:15 PM »
Ahhhhh....Leatherstocking...site of the FIRST EVER time I beat my father at an 18 hole round of golf...summer of 1990.

Those were the days...

Thanks for sharing!!!
Born Rochester, MN. Grew up Miami, FL. Live Cleveland, OH. Handicap 12.2. Have 24 & 21 year old girls and wife of 27 years. I'm a Senior Supply Chain Business Analyst for Vitamix. Diehard walker, but tolerate cart riders! Love to travel, always have my sticks with me. Mollydooker for life!

Bill_Ryzewski

Re:Leatherstocking GC - Back Nine
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2006, 06:57:44 AM »
Thanks for the great pictures. I enjoy driving up from PA to play and stay. Very good course, nice hotel with very good restaurant. I usually stop in Elmira on the way up for 36 at Mark Twain. Great little fall excursion.

Bill

ed_getka

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Re:Leatherstocking GC - Back Nine
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2006, 01:39:29 PM »
James,
   Thanks for sharing. David Kelly highly recommends Leatherstocking and I can see why. Wow!
"Perimeter-weighted fairways", The best euphemism for containment mounding I've ever heard.

Ted Kramer

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Re:Leatherstocking GC - Back Nine
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2006, 02:08:06 PM »
Great follow-up to your front nine post.
Thanks again for taking the time to post those pics.
I really have to get back up there.

#10 is a really good hole!!

-Ted

Mark Arata

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« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2006, 06:49:21 PM »
The 11th is just a great fun hole, David Kelly hit one about 30 yards right of the hole there and it came back down that slope to about 5 ft........

A terrific little course, and very hard to play the first time around, it takes some local knowledge to know where to miss.....
New Orleans, proud to swim home...........

ed_getka

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Re:Leatherstocking GC - Back Nine
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2006, 10:50:08 AM »
Mark,
    I wasn't sure if you had been there with David. If you two vouch for Leatherstocking then that's enough for me. :)
"Perimeter-weighted fairways", The best euphemism for containment mounding I've ever heard.

Mike_Cirba

Re:Leatherstocking GC - Back Nine
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2006, 10:58:55 AM »
Man...what great pictures.   I think I'm in love.

Thanks for sharing them James...

Note to self...Day trip.

Doug Wright

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Re:Leatherstocking GC - Back Nine
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2006, 11:43:43 PM »
James,

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
I played this course with my parents as a teenager.
17 and 18 are great finishing holes. The tee shot
on 18 (I love the peninsula tee out in the lake)
was the first major forced carry I ever had,
and I made it! Only 40 years later it feels like
yesterday. Memories...one of the great things
about golf.
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