Redundant, rehashed, repetitive remarks re: UClub

Azalea City in Mobile redid their greens about 15-20 years ago. They were tabletop sloped from front to back. If you were above the hole there was no stopping it unless it went in. They aren’t bad anymore after they’ve grown in and the course hasn’t been as well kept.

Only ones more difficult than UClub that I’ve played on.

The 1 time I played Peninsula in Gulf Shkres, the greens were super slick. Maybe not as bad as Uclub, but it was a rough day.

Oh, they’re fine now. Just the first few years after they reopened.

quote:

---

Yeah, there are a lot of courses with Bent Greens up north that laugh at this thread. If you’ve never putted on really good bent grass, you haven’t lived.

---

Good Bent greens in the right climate are deadly. If you are picking the right lines, you can putt lights out on fast bent greens because you are never making more than a tap in stroke. Conversely, on shagging Bermuda you are making a 10 foot stroke for a 3 foot putt.

Played there today for the first time. My course has some pretty difficult greens, so I was expecting difficult; but I was still perplexed the whole day. Very difficult greens to putt. I'm trying to think of more difficult greens, but I can't right now.

#15 is ridiculous. I hit a 54 degree 8 feet from the hole, and by the time it stopped rolling, it was down by the water 10 feet below the green.

I play there once or twice a year and have never had an issue, I can see some holes (like 15) getting silly if you miss bad or get above the hole when they are like glass, but I don’t see all of the fuss over them that is repeatedly posted on here.

Stay below the hole and stop complaining.

quote:

---

And there are no exceptions to that. I’m talking 7 or 8 strokes difference. A 10 hdcp who knows that course extremely well will outplay a 2 hdcp who's playing it for the first time.

---

I can definitely see this. I shot 80 today playing it for the first time (I'm a 3 hdcp). I hit it ok, but the margins for error are ridiculously slim. On 10, the pin was in the middle, and I got a little too much of a wedge and ended up on the top of the back ridge. There was no way to get that putt within 5 feet without making it. Didn't make a single putt outside of 8 feet. I was actually over reading the break mostly. I also felt like every shot demanded full concentration minus a couple of par 5 layups. It's hard to hit it out of play, but there's plenty of trouble in landing areas. Very well designed in that regard.

Course knowledge is a huge part of playing well there, no doubt. I'd love to see how I would do over time playing there.

Don’t forget elevation change

The collection area to the right of 17 behind that bunker is a PITA as well.