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**Hopeless Sinner** · 10-04-2023, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by nutmegchoi

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One of the holiest of holy grails!!!

**nutmegchoi** · 10-04-2023, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by Hopeless Sinner

One of the holiest of holy grails!!!

Lucky to have a friend as an employee and a member who both take me out once a while.
Still haven’t played The West but that should happen sometime near future as a belated birthday gift.

**4matic** · 10-04-2023, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by nutmegchoi

Things were going well for a while.
Then I started playing like I don’t know how to swing a club anymore.

Oh, well.
I guess that’s golf.

Just going to keep my head down and keep swinging.

Fatigue will do that. What I do is dial way back and hit go to shots with favorite clubs. 5 wood off tee, 6 iron instead of three wood. Whatever. Tighten up the backswing and follow through always helps too; like 3/4 punch shots.

**nutmegchoi** · 10-04-2023, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by 4matic

Fatigue will do that. What I do is dial way back and hit go to shots with favorite clubs. 5 wood off tee, 6 iron instead of three wood. Whatever. Tighten up the backswing and follow through always helps too; like 3/4 punch shots.

Yeah. I figured I need some range work.
Good my lesson is coming up in couple weeks, too.

Thank you.

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**Hopeless Sinner** · 10-04-2023, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by nutmegchoi

Lucky to have a friend as an employee and a member who both take me out once a while.
Still haven’t played The West but that should happen sometime near future as a belated birthday gift.

That's very cool.

**altacoup** · 10-06-2023, 07:58 PM

Broke 80 today for the first time. 1 over 37 on the front 9 and 41 on the back played the par 3s at +5 otherwise I would’ve really posted a good score. So pumped

**nutmegchoi** · 10-06-2023, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by altacoup

Broke 80 today for the first time. 1 over 37 on the front 9 and 41 on the back played the par 3s at +5 otherwise I would’ve really posted a good score. So pumped

That’s amazing!
Congrats!!

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**nutmegchoi** · 10-09-2023, 09:51 AM

Black was beautiful yesterday.

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**WWCD** · 10-09-2023, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by nutmegchoi

Black was beautiful yesterday.

Hell yes!

**WWCD** · 10-09-2023, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by altacoup

Broke 80 today for the first time. 1 over 37 on the front 9 and 41 on the back played the par 3s at +5 otherwise I would’ve really posted a good score. So pumped

I flirted with breaking 40 on 9 a few times this summer.
Love the 3 putt bogey on the last hole…..twice!
Or to close out the 9….single-double.

**puma** · 10-10-2023, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by nutmegchoi

Black was beautiful yesterday.

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Damn, you get on some great courses!!!

I am a little more than a month out from a return to the Southern Oregon Coast! Very excited!!!!

**RootSkier** · 10-10-2023, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by puma

I am a little more than a month out from a return to the Southern Oregon Coast! Very excited!!!!

Is there any good golf there?

**puma** · 10-10-2023, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by RootSkier

Is there any good golf there?

Bandon Dunes: https://www.bandondunesgolf.com/#

**RootSkier** · 10-10-2023, 05:19 PM

Sorry--was a dumb joke. I have been there and have plans to go back.

**puma** · 10-11-2023, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by RootSkier

Sorry--was a dumb joke. I have been there and have plans to go back.

I am not too quick apparently! I look forward to your report when you get back. What courses are you going to play? This time, I've got: Bandon, Sheep, Pacific and then Trails. (I love Old Mac too, but happy it's the one we miss, if one had to be missed...) I might sneek in a Preserve if time and availability permits.

**RootSkier** · 10-11-2023, 01:35 PM

Last October we played all of them once, except Sheep twice (solely because we could get back out there immediately that day) and the Preserve twice. I did not book that trip and I felt that 18/day was way too little golf.

We are going next October for 5 days on a trip I planned/scheduled and we have 36/day booked--twice around each of the "big" courses.

I would never miss Old Mac....if you could transport me to Bandon right now for one round that's what I would choose. Sheep is the easiest skip for me.

**puma** · 10-11-2023, 03:40 PM

Nice. That'll be a good time. Gone are the days I can walk 18 multiple days in a row. I usually hit the practice area and\or punchbowl with my extra time that is not consumed with drinking and smoking and eating! (In no particular order)

RE: Old Mac. It's always an interesting discussion about Bandon with so many different opinions. I've played them all at least 6 times, with Bandon and Pacific more and Sheep less due to their ages. That said, I had a day out at what has become Sheep many years ago. It was my greatest day of golf having a course absolutely to ourselves and the ability to simply make up holes and shots. I think that probably influences my rating of Sheep. I THINK my rating is 1. Pacific, 2. Bandon\Sheep, 3 Trails, 4 Mac. I am looking forward to the discussions with my group in a month.

I guess what we all can is absolutely agree on without debate, there is NO losing no matter what courses are played!

**nutmegchoi** · 10-12-2023, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by puma

Damn, you get on some great courses!!!

I am a little more than a month out from a return to the Southern Oregon Coast! Very excited!!!!

Make sure to share!!!
Bandon is always in my mind.

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**nutmegchoi** · 10-12-2023, 08:06 AM

Speaking of Old Mac.
I don’t think I shared pictures from Wisconsin.

The Lido at Sand Valley.

Recreation of CB MacDonald (Old Mac) long lost Lido Golf Club in Long Island.
I got to play 5 days after opens for limited Sand Valley resort guest.

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**Aldo** · 10-12-2023, 09:31 AM

This thread may need to be renamed : where hasn’t nut played golf! Nice work !

**nutmegchoi** · 10-12-2023, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by Aldo

This thread may need to be renamed : where hasn’t nut played golf! Nice work !

I still haven’t played California, Nevada and Arizona yet.
And safe to say I’ll never get to play Augusta National nor Pine Valley.

**gravitylover** · 10-12-2023, 04:12 PM

@nutmeg the course in Lido is still there. I grew up on that course, had some of my all time worst rounds ever there

I'd love to go down there and play again, it's been 35 years. My dad said they've put some money into it the last few years rather than rebuild the clubhouse that got damaged in hurricane Sandy. FWIW, it doesn't really look like that

It is/was a great links style course that could be wonderful or nightmarish depending on which way you were facing. I miss it

**nutmegchoi** · 10-12-2023, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by gravitylover

@nutmeg the course in Lido is still there. I grew up on that course, had some of my all time worst rounds ever there

I'd love to go down there and play again, it's been 35 years. My dad said they've put some money into it the last few years rather than rebuild the clubhouse that got damaged in hurricane Sandy.

That’s not the original Lido.
The original got demolished during World War 2.

“In 1942,[6] during World War II, the United States Navy acquired the property and destroyed the course to construct a naval base.[7] After the war, in 1953, a new course was built in nearby Lido Beach with a design by Robert Trent Jones.[6] While different from the original, the Trent Jones course features a replica of Macdonald's 4th hole.[8]”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lido_Golf_Club

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