9 and dine

This course is the fraternal twin of Bing Maloney in Sacramento.  Both are 27 hole courses (an 18 plus an exec 9) built in the mid 50s and now surrounded by housing.  The total course elevation change can be measured in inches.

The greens are generally elevated off the fairway, so add another 2-4 yards for [...]

Here’s the round from today’s tournament match.  The last round was from the blue tees, apparently the match play events are from the whites, so I shaved off 300 yards.  Shot a 74, and had three birdie putt chances that ended up about an inch outside the hole (short, right and left-so I missed them [...]

Came out to Swenson Park in Stockton, CA for a practice round.  I’m playing on the NCGA Match Play team for Ancil Hoffman and one of our matches is down here.  Course reminds me of Bing Maloney (scorecard and review to come later) and they recently switched 9s, so No. 10 is the start of [...]

Carrying a bag can get a little tiring, and it especially wears you down in 90+ degree weather.  This is why I play in the morning when it’s cooler and have scaled back on playing days back-to-back.  But since it was in the mid-80s yesterday, and I could get the twilight rate starting at 2pm, [...]

More of a disappointing round than anything else.  Left three birdie putts just short, on Nos. 2 and 10 and lipped out a couple of par putts on Nos. 1, 8 and 18.  I tried to recover from a couple of bad shots in a dumb way on 6 and 15, which accounts for the [...]