I’m going to withdraw from Southern Dunes. Have fun, y’all!
Bump
Still looking for 5 for SD on 9/11 as well
Would love to join you gents and was planning on offering, but my wife just booked a round with her dad tomorrow AM so I’m playing Mr Mom for the day
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Quota game final round (poll is anonymous)
- Stagger start (Leader at 0, and staggered behind)
- Play off “regular season” compiled points
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Unfortunately won’t be able to make it out. Don’t want to even bother asking the wife if she’s cool with watching our increasingly mobile 1 year old for 7+ hours straight on a Saturday following a weekend where I am out of town for a bachelor party.
Guess this is golf karma for the solo July Wigwam round haha.
See, this is why I’m a huge fan of the 9-9 sleep window…sometimes I can play real early and am home with coffee in hand before they realize I was gone very long.
This is still a tough drive, but hopefully still home between 12-1
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I’ve been holding out hoping something would change, unfortunately I’ll be out of town on the 11th and will not be able to make the Southern Dunes round. Please take me off the list.
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Update:
We have 6 spots to fill, anybody got friends?
FYI: the overseed Bible is out
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This says both Talking Stick course have completed overseed already? In 2020 maybe.
Edit. Though there are few places that would be better candidates to go dormant. They’ll never do it, but O’odham on dormant bermuda would be SICK.
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https://talkingstickgolfclub.com/maintenance
Not sure how AGA missed the easily accessible overseeding info haha
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Listen, I didn’t say the Bible was accurate (that is pretty bad though, nobody completes overseed in August)
Sent them an email, I will share credit where credit is due
I would be about some courses going full dormant for the winter.
Would make for some fun rounds.
Talking Stick fully dormant and having to play the ground game would be lovely
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Vistal (nee Thunderbirds) used to do it, in the later years when they were hurting financially.
It didn’t do them any favors, unfortunately. This was back before the ‘brown is beautiful’ movement had really gained any traction. Also, just one course doing it isn’t really helpful. It looks like a course that’s just cheap (which, frankly, is probably the reality of what Vistal’s situation was).
Also, many desert course aren’t great candidates for going fully dormant? Vistal actually kinda sucked dormant. Many here will never have played it, but it was built on the side of South Mountain (a few miles east of Aguila but more on the slope of the hill) and there were a number of holes with enough slope where the ball just wouldn’t stop until it found a bunker or desert. That sucked. Some of that was, again, lackluster maintenance pre-dormancy. Some of that is just the reality that a narrow desert golf course is a bitch and built with the expectation that the ball will not run forever.
(Which is why TS would be the exception and play well, it’s wide enough and balls that do run off the fairways wouldn’t be terribly punished).
But I wouldn’t mind the munis going dormant. And my god some of those retirement community courses that go wall to wall overseed with thick rye rough are going to have to scale some of that back as seed prices are going up and water restrictions are coming.
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Thanks for the insights. Never played Vistal.
I hate the retirement courses that go wall to wall overseed, slows the pace down cause nobody can see where their ball ended up.
I was looking at the list to see if there are any god candidates myself and to much desert trouble. Maybe Encanto or Ken McDonald might be an okay option, but they don’t set up as well as TS would.
I would like to see some more proactive movement to some better course management practices, let the fairways go and just focus on the greens.
Does anyone else need a TPC make up round?
After being out for about a month, I tested the waters at the range yesterday and was able to make it through without any pain.
That being said I was looking at getting my makeup tomorrow and there’s some fully open times around 2 if anyone else is looking to join.
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@KMola14 ? but not sure if you’re playing SD
@wiz but he might have a brand new baby (I’ve heard of worse excuses to get some fresh air though)
Circling back on this, just curious if our decision has changed because at the moment that would mean only 6 of us would be eligible.