Calvert Crossing GC, Calhoun LA

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What flight you in baw?? I’m playing too. Not playing skins game on Friday tho

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What is this skins game you speak of?

A flight. Technically my handicap should have me in the Champ flight but I have played twice this year and have a torn LCL from a skiing crash from two weeks ago I am hobbling on. I am not playing to what my handicap is.

You?

Some of the greens have bare spots in them, but most are in fine shape. The rest of course seems to be in pretty good shape for it not being quite spring yet. Like Chuck mentioned above, it's fairly tight, so it's better to be accurate off the tee than long. I've always loved the natural beauty of the course: plenty of rolling hills and woods to take in while playing.

ETA: hole tips from a 20+ handicap:

1 - par 5 - watch the water on the left off the tee. Depending on where they have y'all playing from, it can be anywhere from 200-240 yards from the tee or so. It also comes back in to play on your second shot. You'll either lay up short of the water or try to carry it to the green.
2 - par 3 - pretty straightforward par 3
3 - par 5 - you'll want to be as far on the right side of the fairway as it slopes from right to left. It doglegs right at the end.
4 - par 4 - hard dogleg left. Depending on how far you drive it, you may need to take less than driver off the tee. If you're in the middle of the dogleg turn, the green will be a fair bit below you with sand trouble on the right of the green.
5 - par 3 - another straightforward par 3; shorter than number 2 usually
6 - par 4 - this one is an elevated tee box, but your second shot will be all uphill and pretty much blind into the green because it's fairly steep.
7 - par 4 - dogleg right; if you drive it 250+, you'll want to take less here; if you play a fade, it will be perfect because the dogleg will take it down the hill. There is water trouble at the bottom of the hill that you'll have to carry to the green.
8 - par 4 - all uphill; fairly straight
9 - par 4 - green is not visible from the tee; 1st shot is into a slight up-hill; there is a tree that can come into play on the right if you're too far to the right; if the pin is at the bottom of the green, DO NOT hit it to the top of the green. You will not be able to stop your ball.

10 - blind tee shot; there's a fairway bunker to be mindful of kind of left middle
11 - if you drive it too far, you'll roll over the top of the hill and be in a pretty good bottom with a gnarly uphill shot that's only about 60 yards, but probably 40 feet uphill. If you can play that shot, great, but I suck, so I like being closer to the top of hill to have a more similar elevation to the green.
12 - par 3 - all woods on the right; I hate this hole because I always end up in those woods.
13 - par 4 - when standing on the tee box the right 2/3 of your view is fairway, and the left 1/3 is rough. It's fine to be left, but there is a fairway bunker left.
14 - par 5 - this is an elevated tee shot, and this hole can tend to hold water when it rains, so expect it to play softer. You'll have a slight dogleg left at the end where the elevated green is with a pond on the right of the green.
15 - par 4 - the longest par 4 on the course; straight, but long
16 - par 4 - a shorter par 4, but it's all uphill
17 - par 3 - usually similar in length to #5, but it's an elevated tee shot
18 - par 5 - the 1st part is uphill, but then it evens out a bit with a slight dogleg right to the green.

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DO NOT hit it to the top of the green. You will not be able to stop your ball

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if you drive it too far, you'll roll over the top of the hill and be in a pretty good bottom with a gnarly uphill shot that's only about 60 yards

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That's the kind of stuff I'm looking for! Thank you sir

Down the fairway and very much in play on your tee shot if you push it right.

i got ya. This is my first year doing this tour and I didn't know they did that. Is there one the Friday before every event?

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1. Stay out the water on
2. Is up hill. Hit enough club
3. Ball runs right OB off the tee. Whatever you can do hit the fairway
4. I can run out of fairway. Make sure you don't.
5. Standard par 3.
6. Full drive don't lose it right
7 iron off the tee
8. Full drive
9. Full drive. Not sure the greens are as fast as the used to. But make sure you don't putt off the green. Don't hit it on the roof right.
10. Full drive. You either hit it in the sand trap you can not see or you miss it. If pin is in the back hit ball to middle ball will release.
11. What ever you can hit to stay left in fairway and top of hill.
12 good par 3
13. Hit at the left at fairway bunker you may see a fairway but you have to hit it. It's small fairway.
14. Layup
15. This is a long par 4 it's up hill but you can not tell.
16. Full drive
17. Good par 3
18. If you are hitting your driver good then hit it. But you can hit an iron on this par 5 off the tee cause you or me don't have the game to get home in 2. Just hit the fairway and then layup

Good luck.

I was wondering how you did when I saw all the hubbub going on up at the clubhouse Saturday.

I putt on the 3rd green late in the evening a lot, and that green will sometimes do some goofy things with your ball that you don't think will happen.

Glad you enjoyed it.

I was cruising right along until I got to the 3rd green. It was my 8th hole of the day. Hit my tee ball in the trees right. Recovery punch out I thought was good but kept running to the left so had to chip up to the correct side of the fairway. Hit my 4th shot to 15’ short of the pin. Thought I was in perfect position, walk away with bogey at worst. Ended up 4 putting and then had a stretch of 3 putts following that. 40 putts total on the day and all of my 3 putts came after the 3rd hole. Rough day.