Whiskey Creek: It IS Fun to Play it Forward!
My first round with the Carderock Country Club. For those of you not familiar with the lingo, Carderock is short for Naval Surface Warfare Carderock Division. As part of their Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) activities, they put on golf tournaments (definitely a morale booster!). I was lucky enough to be invited to this outing through a co-worker and loved every minute of it (even the bad shots) especially since we got a very good rate and it was a Thursday afternoon.
Date: Sunday 4/10/2014
Location: Whiskey Creek Golf Club, Ijamsville, MD
Score: 82
Excuses: Lack of concentration on a few holes, not knowing the location of a hazard
Course Conditions: Near excellent. Recently aerated but greens still rolled about a 10 on the stimpmeter! A touch windy but otherwise great weather.
The Good: Finished a total of 1 under on the par 5's and played with my good friend Joe
The Bad: Totally lost my concentration on the last hole. 36 putts.
The Ugly: Took an ugly triple on #13 because I drove my ball into a water hazard that was NOT even part of the hole!
I did play the course from the White tees which measured at a not-so-whopping 5,979 yards. But despite the length, you still have to find fairways and make putts. Which sometimes means leaving the driver in the bag because you can get yourself into more trouble than it can benefit you. Most memorable holes were #9 and #18 (both par 5's), 18 being the signature hole with the stone ruins of a farmhouse in the middle of the fairway.
On #9, I hit a slight hook off the tee that magically avoided the tree in the middle of the fairway and rolled to a spot in the slight left rough around 195 yards away from the green. I then take a 3 hybrid and hit an okay shot but it took a great bounce and ended up 15 feet from the cup. I sadly leave the eagle putt short, but put in the birdie. On #18 I crush a drive over the aforementioned farmhouse ruins, leaving myself 210 from the green. Now it is a treacherous shot that has to carry a large creek and two large sandtraps before you hit the green. I decide to hit the 3 wood anyway and bail out to the left to take the traps out of play and leave myself a good pitch towards the pin. As fate would have it, I came across the 3 wood just a little, enough to put some left to right spin on it and instead of hitting the spot 50 yards left of the green, I end up on the green around 45 feet from the pin. After a very long and nerve wracking lag putt, I put the second putt in for birdie.
Overall, I had a great time hanging out with the folks from Carderock, my good man Ron from the Navy Yard whose sticks were crooked and couldn't seem to hit a shot straight, but had a great attitude and outlook on life. And it's always a good round with my good friend and golfing buddy Joe "P-90X, Deer Antler Spray, Flatstick" D. As always, I could have shot better, but did I enjoy myself? YES.
BACK TO THE RANGE (and the Putting Green)!
Next Stop: South Riding
Date: Sunday 4/10/2014
Location: Whiskey Creek Golf Club, Ijamsville, MD
Score: 82
Excuses: Lack of concentration on a few holes, not knowing the location of a hazard
Course Conditions: Near excellent. Recently aerated but greens still rolled about a 10 on the stimpmeter! A touch windy but otherwise great weather.
The Good: Finished a total of 1 under on the par 5's and played with my good friend Joe
The Bad: Totally lost my concentration on the last hole. 36 putts.
The Ugly: Took an ugly triple on #13 because I drove my ball into a water hazard that was NOT even part of the hole!
I did play the course from the White tees which measured at a not-so-whopping 5,979 yards. But despite the length, you still have to find fairways and make putts. Which sometimes means leaving the driver in the bag because you can get yourself into more trouble than it can benefit you. Most memorable holes were #9 and #18 (both par 5's), 18 being the signature hole with the stone ruins of a farmhouse in the middle of the fairway.
On #9, I hit a slight hook off the tee that magically avoided the tree in the middle of the fairway and rolled to a spot in the slight left rough around 195 yards away from the green. I then take a 3 hybrid and hit an okay shot but it took a great bounce and ended up 15 feet from the cup. I sadly leave the eagle putt short, but put in the birdie. On #18 I crush a drive over the aforementioned farmhouse ruins, leaving myself 210 from the green. Now it is a treacherous shot that has to carry a large creek and two large sandtraps before you hit the green. I decide to hit the 3 wood anyway and bail out to the left to take the traps out of play and leave myself a good pitch towards the pin. As fate would have it, I came across the 3 wood just a little, enough to put some left to right spin on it and instead of hitting the spot 50 yards left of the green, I end up on the green around 45 feet from the pin. After a very long and nerve wracking lag putt, I put the second putt in for birdie.
Overall, I had a great time hanging out with the folks from Carderock, my good man Ron from the Navy Yard whose sticks were crooked and couldn't seem to hit a shot straight, but had a great attitude and outlook on life. And it's always a good round with my good friend and golfing buddy Joe "P-90X, Deer Antler Spray, Flatstick" D. As always, I could have shot better, but did I enjoy myself? YES.
BACK TO THE RANGE (and the Putting Green)!
Next Stop: South Riding
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