You don’t mean that.
If anyone cares & didn’t see it, I wrote about the Match Play qualifier there last Friday. Zach, the eventual winner, never saw the 17th hole. Dominant performance.
https://refuge.nolayingup.com/t/2022-amateur-tournaments-qualifier-szn/17444/1547
I meant for Saturday’s round. I love that place. Played the Club Championship last year.
I’m just lost. I literally don’t know what’s gonna happen every single time I swing a club, any club.
Hi Joe, apologies for the late response. Are you familiar with the NLU roosts? If not, here’s how it all got started;
https://refuge.nolayingup.com/t/2022-refuge-roosts-local-clubs-club-championship-outline/63652
Our roost, based here in KC, includes about 70 of us spread across KS, MO, IA, and NE. We have very informal events a handful of times each year that raise money for Youth On Course. Our next one is June 12th and I encourage you to come on out. If you’re looking to meet some new people to play golf with, I can think of no better way to do it.
If you’re interesting in joining up with us, let me know and I’ll get you added to our group and access to the super secret part of the refuge where GPGC things happen.
I’m biased, but yes I think so. I’ve only been to it once last year, but the access you get is pretty good if you want to see some good golf up close. It seems like because there typically aren’t a bunch of big names in KFT events, that most spectators plop themselves down in the bleachers somewhere. I’d encourage you to find a couple groups you like and follow them for a few holes.
Last year I followed Greyson Sigg around who ended up getting his card, Cameron Young for a few holes, and Kevin Chappell. The great thing about the KFT event is it’s easy to move around from group to group because there aren’t a million people.
If you want to camp out in a spot and watch some groups come through I’d suggest trying to find your way to the outside of 1 fairway, up near 3 green and 4 tee. Unfortunately the best spot on the back will be blocked by grandstands, but if you can find your way between 13 and 15, I think 13 is the best hole and could produce some fun approach shots, and 15 might be the most difficult.
17 is another cool approach shot, and if you can get behind 15 tee towards 17 fairway you could kinda walk 20yds back and forth watching each. Or you could get behind 16 green and watch both 17 tee ball and 17 approach from 150yds away.
If you want to see the golf course I’d walk with a group on the back instead of the front. If you’re going out on Sat morning and don’t care about which player you’re watching I’d catch the first couple groups as they make the turn, or if you’re there earlier, join up with them on 7 right behind the practice green under the flag.
Anyway, hope this helps you and anybody else looking to spectate.
Also…did you just join the refuge? What’s it going to take to get you into this new car…I mean Great Plains Golf Club? 
https://refuge.nolayingup.com/t/gpgc-ks-ne-ia-mo-general-discussion/64558
If anyone is out at the KFT event this week, I’m on the bag for Ashton Van Horne. We’re probably the tallest combined player/caddie combo, so should be pretty easy to spot. We’re at 1:50 off 1 this afternoon and 8:30 off 10 tomorrow morning.
We’ve definitely all been there. It’s no fun but you’ll get through it. Hang in there.
Thanks for the comprehensive breakdown!
I did just join the refuge and I’m sure I can be peer-pressured into joining the great plains golf club unless the initiation fee is steep lol. I’ve been reading the discussion board for a while, but haven’t made time to comment.
I play once every week or two, mostly at one of the OP munis, but I’m hoping to expand my horizons and get this handicap down. For the record I love Swope
That’s all I needed to hear, you’re in!
I went ahead and added you to the group. Let me know if it didn’t work.
https://refuge.nolayingup.com/t/gpgc-ks-ne-ia-mo-general-discussion/64558
If anyone needs a 4th player this weekend (public or private) around KC let me know! Currently cruising tee times and not finding a lot of options out there. And if I gotta play with randos I’d certainly prefer them to be fellow NLU nuts.
I just had some people drop out of a noon tee time at Sykes Lady South/North on Sunday if you want in on that? @jdefran will be joining and have one more spot for anyone else here
Count me in. Never played Sykes Lady but I hear good things. Thanks for the invite!
Awesome! That’s three for that spot. Still have one more for any non-cowards that want to brave the 25mph winds with us on Sunday
I’ll play if you still need a fourth. Never played there either.
Perfect! You’re in! I’ll DM you the details
Anyone want to play Fred Arbanas on Sunday? Looks pretty open after 12 atm
Lemme know
Anyone have any course recommendations or looking to get out Sunday morning in the Kansas City Area? I am flying in Sunday morning at 9am and my buddies driving down from MN won’t be in town until mid afternoon. They are picking me up and we are headed down to Big Cedar, but will have nothing to do that morning. Might as well get out and play.
Just got my first carry bag from Jones. What are the best walking courses in the metro area?
In the northland: Hodge Park. Easy walk. Or just go play Swope.
@tjl_48: logistically you are probably going to want to be staying around the airport right? So that leaves you with:
-Shiloh Springs (I cannot in good conscience recommend that course to an out-of-towner, although for some reason I have fond memories when I think back on it)
-Tiffany Greens: Decent all the way around (layout, conditioning, price). Closest to the airport. Not a course you’d brag about playing but I don’t think you’d be upset about it either
-Shoal Creek: the best conditioned muni in town. Can be pricey for a muni, but the layout is v solid.
-Hodge Park: scruffy, short, quirky. Good place to feel good about your game, but it ain’t much to look at.
Or, as per my advice to Tater, try and see Swope, its that good.
We are staying the night at Ameristar Casino, so somewhere between the Airport and there. I’ll look into Swope and Shoal.
Excelsior Springs is a little out of the way up north but they have an absolute beast of a course excelsiorgolf.com