Teamramrod
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Adare today. Only thing a course guide says about 18 is that it's "good to have a relation in the golf ball industry."
BacktoBack or qwerty, you guys have any suggestions for a decent course around Roanoke I can play 9 at after work during the week? Looks like I'm going to be here mon-Friday for the rest of the summer at least and have to get some rounds and practice in. Any others with advice would be appreciated.
A light onshore breeze there in the first pic... Either that, or you're a 40 handicap slicer.
Played 3 rounds last week in Wilmington, Carolina National on Tuesday (had a fever, shot a 101, bad day), again on Thursday (88, much better, especially considering I'm around a 16 handicap), and Cape Fear National Friday (95, with 4 of the holes accounting for +11 of those strokes, sadly).
Have to say, Cape Fear is a fantastic course. Even with the greens having been aerated on Tuesday, they played very well, and were very very fast. I opened +7 over the first 3 holes, then was only +2 on the next 6, and sadly had an 8 on the par 4 17th. But I do feel like my game is getting closer and closer to a good consistency, just need to keep playing.
Those are probably my two most played, area courses. I'm a big fan of them both.
I played yesterday for the first time in almost 2 months. I forgot how much lifting weights will fuck your swing...
messes up everything. trying to shoot a basketball after a long layoff and lifting is impossible too.
you just gotta periodically hit balls so its not such a long layoff.
Just out of curiosity, which do you prefer? Both are highly rated, and I've only ever played either on weekday mornings, so neither were crowded, but I preferred Cape Fear myself (despite also only having played it during Mem Day week, i.e. right after they aerate). Probably helps that it's 20 minutes closer to Figure Eight (where my family has a house). I'm afraid it'll be too cluttered/crowded once they finish up a lot of the houses going in though.
It really sucks that there aren't really any good public courses north of town, just so I could save some time...and that I can't play at Eagle Point without my dad being there.
Also, I thought Porter's Neck was semi-private, is that not the case anymore (if you know)?
Just out of curiosity, which do you prefer? Both are highly rated, and I've only ever played either on weekday mornings, so neither were crowded, but I preferred Cape Fear myself (despite also only having played it during Mem Day week, i.e. right after they aerate). Probably helps that it's 20 minutes closer to Figure Eight (where my family has a house). I'm afraid it'll be too cluttered/crowded once they finish up a lot of the houses going in though.
It really sucks that there aren't really any good public courses north of town, just so I could save some time...and that I can't play at Eagle Point without my dad being there.
Also, I thought Porter's Neck was semi-private, is that not the case anymore (if you know)?