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1 Chance to play LSU Circa 1998
Posted on 8/14/22 at 7:54 pm
Posted on 8/14/22 at 7:54 pm
If you had the opportunity to play the LSU golf course, as it was around ‘98…. Just for shits & giggles, nostalgia, or whatever… what would you pay?
I’m a better golfer now than I was then… so I would be curious. I may pay something stupid just to do it.
I’m a better golfer now than I was then… so I would be curious. I may pay something stupid just to do it.
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Posted on 8/14/22 at 8:10 pm to Barrister
Sure. The front 9 was fun.
Posted on 8/14/22 at 8:44 pm to Barrister
What year did they rework the nines? Around 01?
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:47 pm to elprez00
I played it plenty from 95-2000 and it wasn’t anything special. I did like hitting over that metal building on the back nine..dog leg right and was fun to try to hit it on top and bounce into fairway
Posted on 8/14/22 at 10:33 pm to Barrister
I always liked the original 18th hole. Liked it so much I took my college girlfriend out to the green one night for a little fun under the stars. That’s one hole I wouldn’t mind playing again.
Posted on 8/15/22 at 6:07 am to TigerBR1111
played it a good bit in the 70's...it opened in 71 I believe...
Al ran the course and was co-designer...
barn hole was always a good one...
Al ran the course and was co-designer...
barn hole was always a good one...
Posted on 8/15/22 at 9:14 am to Barrister
We used to take our shirts off after #1. Looking back on that, I can't believe I did it.
Posted on 8/15/22 at 9:45 am to AlxTgr
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We used to take our shirts off after #1. Looking back on that, I can't believe I did it.
Funny. Had forgotten about that. I don’t remember ever wearing a shirt at LSU back in the late 70s early 80s.
Posted on 8/15/22 at 10:06 am to Big L
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did like hitting over that metal building on the back nine..dog leg right and was fun to try to hit it on top and bounce into fairway
That was a fun hole, even with the fence that they put up. It was a hold your breath moment driving around the corner to see a ball in the fairway if you hit a big slice and heard the barn.
Posted on 8/15/22 at 11:28 am to MikeD
The cow patties back there had the special mushrooms.
Posted on 8/15/22 at 1:44 pm to Barrister
Good memories at those tracks, track. Played in our Class championship there in 75. My round at the regionals was the highest and had to tee off first in front of a bunch of people. Number one had the ditch running across it about 350 feet down the fairway if I recall. Shaking it like a polaroid pic, I worm burn it toward the ditch and it jumps it like it should. Good times. We end up 6th as a team. There were only 6 teams.
Posted on 8/15/22 at 7:07 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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My round at the regionals was the highest and had to tee off first in front of a bunch of people. Number one had the ditch running across it about 350 feet down the fairway if I recall.
I can remember teeing off on the Friday morning after Thanksgiving as a probably 12 year old. I made it over but barely.
Posted on 8/15/22 at 11:18 pm to Barrister
Most difficult shot in golf: teeing off on the par-3 9th that ran parallel to Nicholson at around 4:30 when traffic was heaviest and at a standstill. Nicholson was just 2 lanes then and the tee box wasn't more than about 50 feet from the road. It felt like there was a gallery there watching you. And there was always some a-hole who would yell something right in the middle of your backswing 
I'm still amazed I never hit a car on that hole.
I'm still amazed I never hit a car on that hole.
This post was edited on 8/15/22 at 11:19 pm
Posted on 8/16/22 at 5:36 am to Barrister
I played there at least once a week the entire time I was a student there and really enjoyed it for what it was. I still tell a story from one of my rounds there.
I was playing solo and decided to rent a cart because of some potentially bad weather about to roll in (I normally just used my pull cart). I can't remember what hole it was but it was definitely on the front nine and there were two holes back to back working your way back towards Nicholson (maybe like 6 & 7)...anyway.
I run into a foursome and I see there is a another foursome ahead of them so I start to consider just picking up my ball and jumping to hole 9 and come back and play these two holes when I am done if it's open.
They offer me the option to play through, I decline, but they insist and then I see the foursome in front of them is still in the fairway.
At this point I didn't want to make them wait or wait myself so I just pulled a 4i and split the fairway, jumped back in my cart and made my way to my ball. The foursome ahead of me is STILL not to the green.
F THIS, I am picking it up and jumping ahead.
I don't even slow the cart down, grab the wheel with my right hand, lean out as far as I can (4 iron still on my lap), grab the ball, hit a bump and fall out of the fricking cart. Club gets caught on the steering wheel, my foot gets caught on the wheel, shoe comes off, shaft breaks and the club probably rolled a solid 25' down the fairway.
The guys on the tee box were literally on the ground laughing. The guys still not to the green acted concerned but then just laughed as hard as the other group when they saw I was okay.
In my over 30 years of playing golf, thats one memory I can still feel like it was yesterday.
I was playing solo and decided to rent a cart because of some potentially bad weather about to roll in (I normally just used my pull cart). I can't remember what hole it was but it was definitely on the front nine and there were two holes back to back working your way back towards Nicholson (maybe like 6 & 7)...anyway.
I run into a foursome and I see there is a another foursome ahead of them so I start to consider just picking up my ball and jumping to hole 9 and come back and play these two holes when I am done if it's open.
They offer me the option to play through, I decline, but they insist and then I see the foursome in front of them is still in the fairway.
At this point I didn't want to make them wait or wait myself so I just pulled a 4i and split the fairway, jumped back in my cart and made my way to my ball. The foursome ahead of me is STILL not to the green.
F THIS, I am picking it up and jumping ahead.
I don't even slow the cart down, grab the wheel with my right hand, lean out as far as I can (4 iron still on my lap), grab the ball, hit a bump and fall out of the fricking cart. Club gets caught on the steering wheel, my foot gets caught on the wheel, shoe comes off, shaft breaks and the club probably rolled a solid 25' down the fairway.
The guys on the tee box were literally on the ground laughing. The guys still not to the green acted concerned but then just laughed as hard as the other group when they saw I was okay.
In my over 30 years of playing golf, thats one memory I can still feel like it was yesterday.
This post was edited on 8/17/22 at 6:16 am
Posted on 8/16/22 at 10:39 pm to LSUGrad9295
When I was in school, a golfer (who owned a furniture store in BR) fired his tee shot through my front window into the passenger seat of my 1980 Grand Prix... I was on my way back to campus to eat dinner with my girlfriend at Highland cafeteria. He waved me to stop and took my information and paid for a new windshield...
One time, I ended up hitting my 2nd shot from the median (OB but I didn't care) on the 9th hole.
Weren't there some of the LSU bulls out there in that field by the barn? Seems that I remember that some days we didn't cross that fence line to get our slices if the bulls were out there.
One time, I ended up hitting my 2nd shot from the median (OB but I didn't care) on the 9th hole.
Weren't there some of the LSU bulls out there in that field by the barn? Seems that I remember that some days we didn't cross that fence line to get our slices if the bulls were out there.
This post was edited on 8/19/22 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 8/17/22 at 9:54 am to 18handicap
quote:Not sure about bulls, but some of the cows had some sort of opening into the stomach for research.
Weren't there some of the LSU bulls out there in that field by the barn?
Posted on 8/17/22 at 8:57 pm to AlxTgr
quote:
We used to take our shirts off after #1. Looking back on that, I can't believe I did it.
In the mid '80s the Course Rules sign had a line saying "Shirts required in clubhouse". Student rate was $2.50 for 18 and $1.25 for 5pm twilight.
Posted on 8/17/22 at 9:09 pm to Barrister
I've read that now the LSU course is in sad shape. Where do the LSU golf teams play their matches?
Posted on 8/17/22 at 10:02 pm to COTiger
quote:
've read that now the LSU course is in sad shape. Where do the LSU golf teams play their matches?
They’ve been at U club for quite a while I think
Posted on 8/18/22 at 8:53 am to Basura Blanco
quote:That's when I started. Pretty sure it said shirts required on first tee?
In the mid '80s the Course Rules sign had a line saying "Shirts required in clubhouse". Student rate was $2.50 for 18 and $1.25 for 5pm twilight.
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