Yeah I remember all that, I just thought I heard yesterday that he announced he was joining the field. I’ll have to google it to find out what tourney.
Tournament prep has begun - tents going up, equipment not far behind.
This is a photo of the 2 finishing holes for each of the 9s. In the foreground (tee way back in those trees at the left) is an all-the-way-around-the-lake par 5 that should be reachable in 2 by much of the field. Green has 3 tiers, which can make 2-putts anything but guaranteed. Certain to be an eagle opportunity, but also certain to generate some “others”.
Across the lake is a 450-ish yard par 4 with a difficult fairway (slope and trees left, and water, water everywhere to the right) and an equally difficult 2-tiered green. Tee is way back in the trees at the end of the lake.
Gonna be fun to watch!
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Here’s an overhead photo to give a better idea of the shapes of the holes. Par 5 at the bottom of the pic, par 4 middle/top, tees way left adjacent the lake, greens next to the clubhouse at the right.
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Tournament prep has begun - tents going up, equipment not far behind.
This is a photo of the 2 finishing holes for each of the 9s. In the foreground (tee way back in those trees at the left) is an all-the-way-around-the-lake par 5 that should be reachable in 2 by much of the field. Green has 3 tiers, which can make 2-putts anything but guaranteed. Certain to be an eagle opportunity, but also certain to generate some “others”.
Across the lake is a 450-ish yard par 4 with a difficult fairway (slope and trees left, and water, water everywhere to the right) and an equally difficult 2-tiered green. Tee is way back in the trees at the end of the lake.
Gonna be fun to watch!
http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj573/Zcd1/Ivanhoe%20Panorama_zpsqeghd4r9.jpg
Here’s an overhead photo to give a better idea of the shapes of the holes. Par 5 at the bottom of the pic, par 4 middle/top, tees way left adjacent the lake, greens next to the clubhouse at the right.
http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj573/Zcd1/Ivanhoe%20overhead%20map_zpsxrdispyy.jpg
are they growing your rough at all? Glen Abbey is hosting the Canadian Open. They traditionally get the rough up to about a steady 5-6 inches before trimming it down to an even 4" or so for the tournament. It’s nightmarish to play.
Tour pins, tour rough, tour green firmness makes it unbelievable the scores they shoot.
The thing that always makes me laugh is that I’m generally playing around scratch or maybe a 1 or 2. I will go out and shoot 71 at men’s night and people will say ‘you should go pro!’. Yeah right. Consider the following: In about 20 rounds at Glen Abbey in 2013 if you took my ringer scores on those rounds from the back tees (in other words my best score on every hole throughout the year to form a composite best round) it was 63. An eagle, 7 birdies and 9 pars.
That same year John Merrick, who almost nobody has heard of, shot 62 in the CDN Open in tournament conditions. It’s absurd how good they are.
zcd - your course looks really nice. i’ll have to catch some of the tournament on the golf channel.
are they growing your rough at all? Glen Abbey is hosting the Canadian Open. They traditionally get the rough up to about a steady 5-6 inches before trimming it down to an even 4" or so for the tournament. It’s nightmarish to play.
Tour pins, tour rough, tour green firmness makes it unbelievable the scores they shoot.
The thing that always makes me laugh is that I’m generally playing around scratch or maybe a 1 or 2. I will go out and shoot 71 at men’s night and people will say ‘you should go pro!’. Yeah right. Consider the following: In about 20 rounds at Glen Abbey in 2013 if you took my ringer scores on those rounds from the back tees (in other words my best score on every hole throughout the year to form a composite best round) it was 63. An eagle, 7 birdies and 9 pars.
That same year John Merrick, who almost nobody has heard of, shot 62 in the CDN Open in tournament conditions. It’s absurd how good they are.
Rough is up, fairways and greens are fast.
One of the club’s big member tournaments is this weekend (weekend before the web.com event) so everyone’s going to get at least a taste of tour conditions.
When I played Torrey Pines a couple of weeks before the PGA Tour event there years ago, it was all I could to to hack the ball out of the rough with a wedge. Knowing that tour pros hit low-mid irons or (now) hybrids out of that stuff is mind-blowing.
I’m really looking forward to seeing how it looks on TV…
zcd - your course looks really nice. i’ll have to catch some of the tournament on the golf channel.
Rough is up, fairways and greens are fast.
One of the club’s big member tournaments is this weekend (weekend before the web.com event) so everyone’s going to get at least a taste of tour conditions.
When I played Torrey Pines a couple of weeks before the PGA Tour event there years ago, it was all I could to to hack the ball out of the rough with a wedge. Knowing that tour pros hit low-mid irons or (now) hybrids out of that stuff is mind-blowing.
I’m really looking forward to seeing how it looks on TV…
Very cool and congrats! Hope yall have great weather for the event. I didn’t realize yall were the week before us! Our advance week starts this monday with event week the 13th-19th. Similar to you all, we’re having out Stroke Play Club championship right now. We’re really looking forward to hosting our first event as well.
Walking scorer orientation/training last evening.
They are now using custom-programmed Samsung Galaxy 5Ss to track scoring. These were just rolled out in the past couple of months, and only on the Web.com tour for now. They said that they’d be rolled out on the PGA Tour and Senior Tour later this season. Seemed to work pretty well - simple to operate, if a bit laggy at times.
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Weather is looking good overall, though the predicted high for Saturday is 95 degrees (!!!)
Where is this tournament being played? Which club? Just looked. Yep, thats the one. Pretty cool.
My buddy played in a buy.com pro-am at Ivanhoe yesterday. Said he had a blast. Lots of former Bears players and their groups pro was a super nice guy. Erik Barnes?
Very cool and congrats! Hope yall have great weather for the event. I didn’t realize yall were the week before us! Our advance week starts this monday with event week the 13th-19th. Similar to you all, we’re having out Stroke Play Club championship right now. We’re really looking forward to hosting our first event as well.
Hole in one at the tournament!
This is a downhill roughly 200 yard par 3 with a green that slopes severely from back to front. Great shot!
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The course record (64) lives to see another day…
There was one 65 and several 66s yesterday but also quite a few “others”. One player was at eight under going into the 18th (the hole in the pic below) and promptly made a quadruple bogey 9 by dumping 2 shots in the lake. Ouch.
Not this guy, though. He’s Mark Anderson, super nice guy, who hit this 210-yard 2nd shot to about 20 feet to set up a closing birdie on this par 5. He shot a 2 under 70. The other 2 guys in my group shot 77 and 78. (One was 5-time winner Aussie Matthew Goggin)
Groundskeeper told me that the tour told him to speed up the greens even more starting today, so they should be rolling around 13 on the Stimpmeter. THAT’S gonna make things interesting!
Fun stuff to be there right with the players inside the ropes!
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why were you 40 yards away from him? Was there another player beside you? I always stand pretty close.
Right up paralell to them, yardage wise. Never behind his back, never to his right (or left if leftie) down the line. Basically they don’t want to see you. If you’re where you are there, you’re in their field of view out the corner of their hat. You’ll notice other players and caddies tend to get up beside the guy when he hits his shot. Or they get way up front and out of the way liek the other guy in the group there.
I don’t mean counting his freckles close, but 10 yards from him.
Assuming he’s hitting a shot on the white line across the pond…
White X good
Red section very bad
White squiggly section slightly bad…try to move up.
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Tour officials told us to stay 10 yards behind whichever player was hitting.
Thanks for the tips, tho…
behind? yikes you may want to confirm that. or do you mean to the side but not parallel? I ask players or caddies at teh beginning of the round and they almost universally say ‘just get up even with us out of sight’
p.s. now that you’ve been around a few times…I’m sure you’ve had the ‘Thanks for going with us’ at the end of the round. That’s pretty weird eh? I’ve never heard that expression other than out there.