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Joined: 4/17/2008
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Posted: Jun/12/2008 6:48 AM PST
I played a new course yesterday. It seems like every time I play a new course, I add about 10-15 strokes to my game.
Now I must say, the course we played was just absolutely HORRIBLE! It looked like it hadn't been mowed in a week, and there was foot tall grass in spots on the fairways. If your ball ended up in the rough (or even some parts of some fairways for that matter) it was considered gone! There were dandilions, and other white flowering weeds everywhere, making it extremely difficult to find our balls. The rough wasn't very tall but for whatever reason, even if you watched the ball stop, and went right to it... it was gone! Like there were course gnomes stealing them or something. Absolutely crazy. I hit one ball into water, every other ball I hit was in play but at the end of the night I went through over a dozen balls!
Anyway, back to the original question... when you guys play a new course, do you find it is adding quite a few strokes to your game?
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San Angelo
Joined: 8/16/2007
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Posted: Jun/12/2008 7:01 AM PST
It always adds some to mine. Just because I don't know the layout of the holes and the really big thing is I'm not used to the roll/slope of the greens.
Where was this course... hope it wasn't in Texas...
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Posted: Jun/12/2008 7:44 AM PST
Nah... Ellenville NY. The course layout was beautiful, one of the nicest layouts I've played. I actually got to use the new tricks of the draw and fade I've learned. The upkeep was HORRIBLE! The one main pond was just about dried all the way up, and the streams were barely a trickle (which is extremely strange considering we've had horrible rain here several times in the last few weeks), and I suspect they have been holding back on mowing so the fairways don't burn out.
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Houston, TX
Joined: 8/16/2007
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Posted: Jun/12/2008 9:00 AM PST
Hey, don't mess with Texas! 
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Joined: 12/05/2007
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Posted: Jun/12/2008 2:46 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by Jonny_Rocket Nah... Ellenville NY. The course layout was beautiful, one of the nicest layouts I've played. I actually got to use the new tricks of the draw and fade I've learned. The upkeep was HORRIBLE! The one main pond was just about dried all the way up, and the streams were barely a trickle (which is extremely strange considering we've had horrible rain here several times in the last few weeks), and I suspect they have been holding back on mowing so the fairways don't burn out.
Not sure where Ellenville NY is but here in the Bronx we've had a serious heatwave so that explains things being dried up. I would think that if a super knows its going to be that hot out for that long they would let the grass get a little longer so it doesn't get burnt but what you describe sounds terrible.
As for adding strokes, absolutely, even when you have a yardage book or a skycaddie there is no substitute for flat out knowing the course and where to be and where not to be.
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Santa Cruz ca.
Joined: 8/16/2007
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Posted: Jun/17/2008 1:18 AM PST
mmmmmm, guess I'm the weird one here....
I have played new course and yes I have scored even better
than I thought I would. golf isn't suppose to be tricky.
yeah there are visual changes and such, but if you hit the
fairways and play the course, you should be able to score...
I played a new course on sat which I have never played and
yet in the end looking at my scorecard. the 4 strokes I lost
to the course were 2 on putting on fast greens, which was my
fault. and one on cutting a corner to find out I had a tree
in the way, my fault again. the last one was a sand shot and
the sand in every trap was wet and like cement, I got out fine
just ended up 14ft past the cup and 2 putted, courses fault...
other than that I was really happy with the way I play it.
shot a 79 on a 6500yd course... so if you take back the 4 I
missed, that would have been a 75 which is right on par.
so maybe you could say it cost me, but I think the sand was
the only one that robbed me....
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Joined: 12/05/2007
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Posted: Jun/17/2008 10:29 AM PST
i think the better you are the less it is goint to affect you. Also, the layout of the course has a lot to do with it. I played a course for the first time this past saturday and shot around my usual score. I noticed that the course didn't have a lot of doglegs and was visually easy to navigate. The cart also had gps though!
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North Carolina
Joined: 8/16/2007
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Posted: Jun/17/2008 8:52 PM PST
A limited answer here, because I've only played seven courses so far...but yes, all except one absolutely destroyed me when I played them the first time. Return trips were much, much better. This is especially true on holes where the green is hidden on the 2nd shot, over the top of a hill or something. I guess I really depend on sight, until I'm familiar with the layout.
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san clemente
Joined: 1/14/2008
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Posted: Jun/17/2008 9:05 PM PST
Cp you might be right often my best score on a course happens the first time I play it. I dont take chances my first time round and
I dont go pin hunting. If a par 4 is under 350 I wont hit driver and on the par 5s I will try to leave myself 75-125 yards for a third so the 3 wood tends to stay in the bag. If we are all new to the track I bet big if I can get it. The second time I play the course I turn into a dare devil and that doesnt work out often.
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Joined: 4/17/2008
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Posted: Jun/17/2008 9:06 PM PST
CP... that wasn't High Point Golf Club was it? I LOVE THAT COURSE! I work their ponds as well. Brad (the manager/pro) is an awesome guy.
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