Chimera (Serpent Tees) 6530 yards – 70.3 Rating – 122 Slope – 83 Score Day 3; April 23rd, 2017 The first thing I noticed about Chimera was the eye popping “green” of their greens. The word “pristine” came quickly to mind; and, really, the entire course was fantastically groomed and maintained. This is no […]
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Course Review – Burns State Park, Arkansas
Burns State Park – Championship Course (Blues) 6199 yards – 69.6 Rating – 122 Slope – 86 Score Day 11; May 1st, 2017 The first thing to know about this review is that Burns was not our planned course for the state of Arkansas; however, when we arrived at Pleasant Valley Country Club to play […]
Golf Nerd Alert – a bit on course rating and slope
For some time I’ve known that (speaking very generically) course rating is for scratch golfers and the slope is for bogey golfers. While I am, on my good days, typically the afore mentioned bogey golfer, I’ve always determined which tee’s to play based on the course rating and yardage. Most often this has worked for […]
A few bests – golf stuff
I’m really avoiding saying what course(s) is (are) best as much as possible, however there are a few things that I can say are the best so far (because they have to do with me, not the courses), so I will. Best shots (top 3, I’ll update if this changes): Knockdown 2 iron off the […]