Canada
Alright, I'm back from Dakota Dunes. What a place. It's like a green carpet laid over bald ass prairie. The area that it's built on is a huge sand dune, a glacial deposit. So, it doesn't support tall trees, just short shrubs and grasses. Huge undulating fairways, not a level lie on the course. And the greens are just as bad. Huge, but for good reason. You can hit a ball that lands 4 feet from the pin only to roll just far enough to catch a bank and end up 45 feet from the hole.
An easy 9.5 out of ten on every aspect of the golf course from fairways and greens to cart girls. :idhitit:
I will say that I am disappointed in the pics that came out. It was very overcast to start, and then got sunny, then cloudy and dark and had my camera sucking anus in terms of what to focus on because of the blinding shy. But I digress....anyways, here's the pics and some brief commentary.
Hole #1. Sorry about the fuzzy image, but it's a tight little par 4 basically straight away. 339 yards from the Blues (they have Gold and Blacks too, but the Blacks play almost 7600 yards!)
Hole #1 waste bunker. This is what I mean by built on dunes. You just cut a hole in the turf, viola! a bunker! I walked, by the way....the weiners rode.
This is the green on #2. As you can see, big swails off the back there. There's about another 100 feet of green down there that i couldn't get in the pic.
Blind tee balls on alot of holes. This was the teebox angle for #4. If you squint, you can see the flag through the taller trees there. The target window is basically that small area on the left. Tough, tough hole. Must have 4 valleys in it's 434 yards. Sickening.
Par 3 #6. About 156, but played more like 200 dead into the wind today. I hit a 7 wood on the screws, and came up about 3 yards short.
#7 approach shots. The divot in the left hand corner there is one of maybe 4 on the whole course. I swear they must have a guy that picks up and fixes divots on every hole, everyday. The course was just like a carpet. Needless to say in this pic, I'm safely to the right of the green having just pushed my 5 wood and have a 20 yard shot left that has the flag at least 45 feet over my head. Got it close, made the putt.
The teeboxes were marked with these hand carved chunks of granite. They were just oustanding craftsmenship.
Here's a yardage marker for #14. These were also handmade. An outstanding touch that just added to the course.
Here's a pic of a green that I just had to take to show undulations. This green was enourmous. It extends to the left out of the pic for at least another 30 yards. Huge. But impossible to putt. You would need extensive practice on these greens to figure them out. They were receptive, yet fast, which is great.
This was #17, a par 3 about 175 playing downwind. I nailed a 7 iron to about 6 feet, missed the putt (lip out). We were all within 9 feet on this hole, come to think of it.
Fantastic course. I sincerely apologize for the pics, they don't do it justice. But I can safely say, this is once place I will be going back to enjoy many times.
Green fees are $36CDN, carts are $16 a person. Beers are 4 bucks. Beef jerky is $6.25, but worth it.
R35
Oh, I shot a blazing 85. But for my first time playing there and with all those crazy blind tee shots, not to mention the roller coaster greens, I'm happy with that!
An easy 9.5 out of ten on every aspect of the golf course from fairways and greens to cart girls. :idhitit:
I will say that I am disappointed in the pics that came out. It was very overcast to start, and then got sunny, then cloudy and dark and had my camera sucking anus in terms of what to focus on because of the blinding shy. But I digress....anyways, here's the pics and some brief commentary.
Hole #1. Sorry about the fuzzy image, but it's a tight little par 4 basically straight away. 339 yards from the Blues (they have Gold and Blacks too, but the Blacks play almost 7600 yards!)
Hole #1 waste bunker. This is what I mean by built on dunes. You just cut a hole in the turf, viola! a bunker! I walked, by the way....the weiners rode.
This is the green on #2. As you can see, big swails off the back there. There's about another 100 feet of green down there that i couldn't get in the pic.
Blind tee balls on alot of holes. This was the teebox angle for #4. If you squint, you can see the flag through the taller trees there. The target window is basically that small area on the left. Tough, tough hole. Must have 4 valleys in it's 434 yards. Sickening.
Par 3 #6. About 156, but played more like 200 dead into the wind today. I hit a 7 wood on the screws, and came up about 3 yards short.
#7 approach shots. The divot in the left hand corner there is one of maybe 4 on the whole course. I swear they must have a guy that picks up and fixes divots on every hole, everyday. The course was just like a carpet. Needless to say in this pic, I'm safely to the right of the green having just pushed my 5 wood and have a 20 yard shot left that has the flag at least 45 feet over my head. Got it close, made the putt.
The teeboxes were marked with these hand carved chunks of granite. They were just oustanding craftsmenship.
Here's a yardage marker for #14. These were also handmade. An outstanding touch that just added to the course.
Here's a pic of a green that I just had to take to show undulations. This green was enourmous. It extends to the left out of the pic for at least another 30 yards. Huge. But impossible to putt. You would need extensive practice on these greens to figure them out. They were receptive, yet fast, which is great.
This was #17, a par 3 about 175 playing downwind. I nailed a 7 iron to about 6 feet, missed the putt (lip out). We were all within 9 feet on this hole, come to think of it.
Fantastic course. I sincerely apologize for the pics, they don't do it justice. But I can safely say, this is once place I will be going back to enjoy many times.
Green fees are $36CDN, carts are $16 a person. Beers are 4 bucks. Beef jerky is $6.25, but worth it.
R35
Oh, I shot a blazing 85. But for my first time playing there and with all those crazy blind tee shots, not to mention the roller coaster greens, I'm happy with that!
