[UJRonald]

I absolutely agree on all scores. Courses that are just up and back and up and back, straight and flat are a bore and courses that just include a bunch of gimmicky junk make me want to go find the guy that designed it so I can chase him down with a 3 iron in hand.

The furrows in this particular course are a matter of poor construction and maintenance. They are not designed into the course but while it was being built nobody cared enough to get them the heck outta’ there. This course also had its fair share of design features that were a consequence of trying to shoehorn something in, doglegs in particular. I like doglegs but I don’t like it when the designer looks at a design issue and just resorts to the same damn solution every time. “I know, I will put a dogleg there.” Brilliant, boy am I surprised.

This course had a hole that was dogleg right, severely slanted from left to right, with a hidden green and half the fairway hidden by a mound only about 75 to 100 yards from the tee box. When I finally got out onto the fairway I realized I had way overcooked my drive and had it well into the woods regardless of the fact that I was trying to control my drive! I had hit the thing about 200 yards tops thinking that there could be anything from another hole to piranhas out there in the landing area and still way overcooked it. You will be interested to know that this particular beauty of a hole only had one spot of any reasonable distance from the tee box that you could see and it had a fairway bunker right there! It took me a period of time to stop laughing before I hit my drive and I was still laughing while I was making my way out onto the fairway after hitting it. However as my first post indicated, eventually none of this was very funny as the whole course is like that in one way or the other. I did not even mention yet that you have to cross a main road three times to play 18 and twice just to play nine.