If you’re wondering how we’re shaping up weather-wise compared to Mudnesses(es’es) past…
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2021:
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I’d love to but cannot make it
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Welcome to the best week of the year fellas! Get those handwarmer value packs ready for Saturday!
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Making my weekly Jewel(s) run:
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None of those for me, Brad - thanks to the Great Goldschlager Incident of 1994.
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LOL
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At least we are going to get some sunshine
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Have to pull out from this weekend. Absolutely bummed. Will be back out next year.
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I’m stuck in the Metra clusterfuck at OTC, so a bored Mudness update.
Saturday can’t get here fast enough. Buy some damn raffle tickets! Some good stuff up for grabs!
A sticker sheet and 2CGC pin is included in the tee gift for all attendees. Howevah! if you’d like additional or want to mule one for someone who couldn’t make Mudness, find me and they can be yours for two American doll hairs each.
I’ll also be at Burban 4/20.
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stickers already all over my #yeti waterbottle like im the man in orange
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Looks like I may need to go buy some gear - the feels like temp isn’t projected to be above freezing the entire day.
Final Four? More like Frozen Four.
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Wow how much Fireball do you consume?
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Weather is going to be great. It’s March let’s all lower expectations.
Also finalizing tee assignments today. Anyone who backs out now after 12pm today is going on a shit list
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How else would someone work all week then go play golf, photograph events and play in a band?
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Starting to get all hot and bothered that we’re only a few days away from being exceptionally cold and bothered at this year’s Mudness. To celebrate/distract everyone from work, I’ve posted some #taeks on each hole at KECC below. These are mostly meant for conversation fodder, unless you disagree with me, in which case you are wrong/butthurt/dense.
#1 - Rarely does a hole so perfectly encapsulate what you’re going to get the rest of the round. A not-particularly-long Par 4 with plenty of room off the tee, unless you really really miss in which case you’re kinda boned. But the best part of #1 is the best part of KECC, and that is the green complexes. Elevated, segmented, and pure - the Elks’ true colors pop right from the opener.
#2 - A good Short Par 4 gets my blood pumping. Oh you three-putt-bogeyed #1 because you were on the wrong tier? Here’s a chance at something red. Cavernous bunkers gobble up anything short, so if you come at the green, you best come properly.
#3 - A though-provoking risk-reward Par 5. Longer hitters can 100% smack it up to the dogleg and reach in two, but would we be better served to hit two irons and a wedge and take all the trouble out of play? The dogleg is situated nicely where the easiest miss on your approach is to the right of the green due to the angle, which is a nice subtle FUCK YOU from Langford and Moreau because turns out the right side is above the hole and the whole damn green slopes back the opposite way. You’re pin high in two? Cool dude, sick 5.
#4 - Another fun exercise in tee shot selection on this shorter Par 4. What has been not-so-fun of an exercise is I’ve chunked the wedge shot every single time I’ve ever played this hole.
#5 - One of-, if not the-, hardest goddamn pitching wedge of a Par 3 I’ve played in Chicagoland. PAR 3s DON’T HAVE TO BE LONG TO BE HARD.
#6 - A long, hard Par 5 that seems to always play into a March wind that makes things longer and harder. This green also feels like it’s at about a 45 degree cant - please do not fact check me on that.
#7 - What a good par 3. Absolutely elegant in it’s simplicity. After six holes winding through the trees, you’re suddenly in the middle of an open field, staring the green dead in the face, just a mid-iron away. Ball strikers only, folks. An exceptionally-fitting closest-to-the-pin hole, because whoever wins this one likely hit the single best iron shot of the entire day.
#8 - We love a little quirk here at BBK headquarters, and what better way to follow up the most simple hole on the course than a winding, uphill, dogleg right with more trees than you’ve seen so far. I once saw a bearded gentleman in a Michigan State basketball jersey absolutely carve what could only be referred to as an artisinal, flightly, butter cut wedge here during Scotch Foursomes that left our own DJ Pie absolutely speechless. The image is painted into my memory forever. I think I even posted a GIF of it to the original Mudness thread. I’ll try to find it.
#9 - This hole is fucking sick. Absolute cocaine train cracked out short Par 5 with water affecting layups and approaches alike, OB lurking, pot bunkers, and tons of visibililty from the clubhouse to make a meltdown more public. My only qualm is that it should be #18, not #9. Matches and quotas are made or shattered by mere inches.
Needless to say, I adore this front 9. L&M manage to take a relatively benign piece of property and pimp it for everything it’s worth. We’re onto the back 9 tomorrow.
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