re: Opinions of the Island

You playing Thursday?

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Played there Saturday, greens were in absolutely horrible conditions

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I'm fairly new to golf, started about 15 months ago when I was living in the North, but then had to stop for 4-5 months because of the Winter conditions. Moved back to LA about 2 months ago and play 3-4 rounds a week. I'm hitting between 95-105 right now, point is, I'm no golfing expert.

With that said, some of you don't know what "horrible greens" are. I get it that you're expecting the greens to be better but they aren't horrible. I play Webb, Dumas, LSU, City Park, JS Clark mostly just to consistently practice. I played The Island last Wednesday and I absolutely LOVED it. Considering what I'm used to, the greens were terrific. Then on Thursday I played Santa Maria with a 4some and the greens were hard as a rock, fast, no idea where the breaks were coming from. However, they weren't in bad shape, just dry and needed to be extensively watered, but that was literally all over the state.

Bottom line: Be grateful there are solid options even around BR that are very reasonably priced. In Philly, you're paying $45 for a course like Webb and $150 for a course like the Island

Every summer I take a trip up to the west side of Chicago in the suburbs to see family. Around there, you pay $40 for a course like LaTour (there are a lot of them) and $9 for a course like Webb for 18 holes.

Played a course called Arrowhead, place looked nicer and was better kept than anywhere in BR including the CCs. It was only $45 w/ cart. Quality of golf for the price down here is atrocious give or take a couple of courses.

Did Island quit using golfnow?

I don’t see any tee times

Was invited to play next month for a work outing. It will be my first time to play the course. I am looking forward to it. Hopefully the beer will be cold and the skies will be blue!

who is the head pro right now at the Island after Chris left?

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It’s BallChamp now

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oh shite

$75

Ball, how important is it to keep the club in front of you?

My miss my whole life has been a snap hook, I played 9 yesterday and I hooked every drive. I threw myself on iphone slow mo and im so inside on the takeaway its insane.

Super inside takeaway leading to a hook on the longer clubs?

thinking I need some major work on keeping the club in front of me throughout the swing, which feels insane to me and feels like im just lifting the club over my head because im so used to a flat, inside takeaway. I hit a couple of shag balls last night with driver forcing myself to keep the club in front and they were perfect, has to be my issue.

Snap hooks are easy to fix. Only a couple things cause it. Keeping club out like Andrew Loupe does will normally stop a snap.