A couple of pictures from the course I often play

[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast]

Most weekends can find me hacking around Delcastle in northern Delaware. It's not a great course, but a fairly solid layout with a few interesting holes. I took some pix over the weekend at a couple of the tougher holes, 6 and 10.

Hole 6 is the longest par-3 on the course, has two bunkers guarding it. You can't run a shot up onto it because of the slope in front, and the green has good slope from back to front making putting no easy task.



Hole 10 is a hole which demands that you hit a fade off the tee. If you hit a driver straight, there's water 230 yards away. If you overcook the fade, you can end up in trees. If you hit a perfect cut with the driver, you can shorten the hole to 7, 8, or 9-iron in.

[Loop]

Nice pics rbb.

[ezra76]

Nice looking course. How long does it take to get there from RI. Is the 2nd pic a par 4 or 5? That par 3 looks just like the green of a par 5 on the back of my home course. The bunkers are just hellacious and if you go off the back of the green its a 12 foot drop to the hardpan under the trees. I had to chip it back up with a hybrid the one time I made that mistake.

[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast]

Originally Posted by ezra76

Nice looking course. How long does it take to get there from RI. Is the 2nd pic a par 4 or 5? That par 3 looks just like the green of a par 5 on the back of my home course. The bunkers are just hellacious and if you go off the back of the green its a 12 foot drop to the hardpan under the trees. I had to chip it back up with a hybrid the one time I made that mistake.

The 10th hole is a par-4. I should get anothe few pix from out on the elbow of the dogleg, the second shot plays to an elevated green, so if you've laid back from the tee out on the back of the dogleg, you can end up nearly 200 yards out. I've birdied that hole once when I hit a perfect drive and then plunked a 7-iron hole high on the green.

The 6th hole doesn't have a dropoff behind it, although the picture doesn't show very well how on the left side if you pull or hook a ball too much you can end up taking a trip down into a small valley that the 7th hole plays across for the tee shot.

It suprised me some this last weekend how much nicer the course was beginning to look and shape up into. I began playing there last fall, and the course was having some problems, and there was a time period when the 18th green was closed down because, as I was told by others, it almost completely died. It's back, but still patchy in places, I think because of the tree situation--there are trees on 3 sides of the 18th green, preventing it from getting morning and evening light which is important for healthy grass. What they should really do, I don't think they can touch the trees on another property to the west, is thin out the trees on the eastern side to open up more light in the morning for that green.

[Highdraw34]

Looks good, you ever get into the DC area to play at all?

[ezra76]

I didn't realize how close you guys are. Anyone be interested in getting a road trip to Bethpage together towards the latter part of the season? It's about 4 hrs. from me. I'd love to play it as I've never played a course that has seen a professional tournament before. Highdraw, you need to get the practice round for the 2009 US Open. LOL

[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast]

Bethpage would sure be interesting to do. At our levels, we might want to forego the Black course and take on another course. I guess the key thing is getting there early and getting in line.

[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast]

Originally Posted by Highdraw34

Looks good, you ever get into the DC area to play at all?

I tend to be a somewhat reluctant traveler, at times, although every now and then I get the gumption to go places.

[Highdraw34]

I know it might be a bit of a hike but outside of Annapolis there is a course called Renditions. the website is www.renditionsgolf.com It is a mock up course that has a compilation of famous holes throughout the world. That way you only have to travel to one place and you get to play all of those fantastic holes.