Played 9 holes today in Oconomowoc after class, Paganica gc is a 6576 yd par 72 with a slope of 116. Anyways it's the 1st time I have ever seen the place much less played it, there was a mens outing on most of the front 9 but the back was wide open. Guy in the clubhouse tells me the 10th tee is down the path next to the pepsi machine & sure enough it's easy enough to locate. No signage of any sort, just a ball washer & the markers on the tee box. Finish the hole & just by looking I can't easily tell which tee box os for the next hole as there is one to my left as well as to my right. I go left, tee off finish the hole & move on to the next. Short hole looks like it's about 170 yds or so but card claims it should be 376 yds. Like I said absolutely not 1 sign except the ones they had nailed to the large trees near the greens stating to keep carts 30' away from them.
I get kinda pissed off since obviously I am not playing the right hole & the map on the scorecard is a damn joke. Jump in the cart & head back to the 10th hole to figure just where the heck I should actually be playing. Find 2 guys on a hole on the front 9...don't know what hole it is either & they point out where the 11th should be...oh I see, makes perfect sense having the 11th tee box right off the back of the 5ths green!!!! Anyway finally get that straightened out & manage to par the 486 yarder.
Could be a really nice course if they would have signs by the tee boxes & in some cases like on other courses, signs directing you to the next tee box. 2 other issues were there also, tons of those damn helicopter seed pods all over the greens. Ever try putting on those? I'm not talking about 10-20 per green, but rather there were more pods than green that could be seen. The other thing was the fairways were weird, really bumpy not the usual smooth rolling type of fairways you have, as a result of this the grass is kept a little longer than on a typical fairway. At least 6 of the holes were like this, it didn't affect my game at all except I felt like throwing up from the cart getting bounced & tossed around so much. I suppose I could have slowed down a bit but where's the fun in that
Anyhoo, who else has played weird little courses like this?
I get kinda pissed off since obviously I am not playing the right hole & the map on the scorecard is a damn joke. Jump in the cart & head back to the 10th hole to figure just where the heck I should actually be playing. Find 2 guys on a hole on the front 9...don't know what hole it is either & they point out where the 11th should be...oh I see, makes perfect sense having the 11th tee box right off the back of the 5ths green!!!! Anyway finally get that straightened out & manage to par the 486 yarder.
Could be a really nice course if they would have signs by the tee boxes & in some cases like on other courses, signs directing you to the next tee box. 2 other issues were there also, tons of those damn helicopter seed pods all over the greens. Ever try putting on those? I'm not talking about 10-20 per green, but rather there were more pods than green that could be seen. The other thing was the fairways were weird, really bumpy not the usual smooth rolling type of fairways you have, as a result of this the grass is kept a little longer than on a typical fairway. At least 6 of the holes were like this, it didn't affect my game at all except I felt like throwing up from the cart getting bounced & tossed around so much. I suppose I could have slowed down a bit but where's the fun in that
Anyhoo, who else has played weird little courses like this?