Text me if you go tomorrow and if they have 10M in premiers I’m your huckleberry
1 Like
Yessir. Park in the red circle. Door is the green. Once you book online, you’ll get a code sent to your phone that will unlock the entrance door and the door to whichever bay you reserved.
Each bay is an ode to the 9 hole gems we grew up learning the game on: Fairview, Shady Acres, and (my personal favorite) Wayside. RIP to all.
1 Like
Two spots open at Ohio State GC tomorrow at 2:42
4 Likes
Bringing my push cart to Boulder tomorrow, if it’s CPO for hard frost I feel like I’ve got an argument to walk. I say this now. We’ll see what happens at 10:30.
4 Likes
I’ve always wanted to play Scarlet, definitely down another day like next year if available.
Will you even have time for all 18 starting that late?
1 Like
Almost certainly not without flying and even if we did, we’d still probably get 16 or so in
2 Likes
Whatd you think? Ive been trying to play Scarlet but get the impression its one of the courses id come away thinking I paid a bit too much to be frustrated after shooting 100
1 Like
I’ve played Scarlet a handful of times and have really enjoyed it overall.
The only issue scoring wise IMO is there are a lot of half shot penalties if you’re not driving it in the fairway. The trees are really tight on a good amount of holes, which can get frustrating.
My only major non-scoring note: 4 stinks, which has been spoken about ad nauseam around here. Outside of that hole, I like the course a lot more than most around here and Jack gets too bad of a rap for his work on it.
5 Likes
We got 13 in after taking our sweet time. Fantastic day.
I’ve described Scarlet before as the “best bad golf course” in Ohio. Everything PJ said is spot on, especially about driving the ball. There are some holes where you get double whammy’d with bunker and tree trouble.
4 is an abomination. The fairway bunker on 7 is almost comically too big for the hole and the fairway is pinched by trees that are single-digit paces off the mow line. 11 is bad, too.
There are some solid golf holes out there and it’s absolutely got potential to be an exceptional golf course. I worked on the greens staff there for a while so I’m very biased but I think it’s a place you have to see, warts and all.
Edit addition - (again, biased) but don’t sleep on Gray as an option, either. It’s a really fun shorter course with a ton of half par holes. Lots of birdies and/or doubles out there
5 Likes
There is also some interesting land movement that is absolutely not used, or at least immensely under-used (thinking of 10 and 11 in particular.) My complaint about Scarlet is that it is hard for the sake of being hard. Every landing area off the tee is pinched by a bunker, there are trees off the fairway that also affect tee shots/approach shots, and the greens are pushed up with deep bunkers fronting. Scarlet doesn’t make you make any decisions, the design makes all the decisions for you.
And you are 100% correct re: Gray - I have always enjoyed playing it, and it is a really good place for a laid back loop
1 Like
You’ll earn your beer calories walking Boulder.
2 Likes
Scarlet is a course I’ve zero desire to ever play. I always felt the same way about Firestone South and my feelings were confirmed when I played it. Some courses are just architecturally meh then compounded by the fact if you’re a mid capper they’re just too damn hard. I love a course that’s an ass kicker around the greens—it can even the playing field. But a big ballpark that’s uninteresting? No thanks.
2 Likes
Real ones know Gray is the more fun play at OSU.
5 Likes
I also get sucked into renewed and unearned optimism with Scarlet.
“This is the round where the hole isn’t influenced by that horrible ridge on #2”
“This is the round where I finally hit the perfect shot into #4”
“This is round where I don’t blade it over the green and onto the road on #16”
2 Likes
Scarlet isn’t architecturally uninteresting. It’s a quasi-Alister MacKenzie that I enjoyed quite a bit. It has good variety and makes good use of the land. Solid, good routing.
I need to see Gray sometime, not a fan of Scarlet at all other than to play it to say I’m playing golf
1 Like
Thankfully didn’t come to that! No cart restrictions, but also no halfway house. Windy but course was in good shape for this late in the season. Played to the right green on #8 for the first time ever. Didn’t love it, but that’s more related to me fatting it into the pond
1 Like
I’m sure scarlet is bad, but having played it 30 plus times in my grad school year for about 300 bucks it has a special place in my heart. That rate they charge students is great.
4 Likes
