1303 tee time, but planning on getting out there a bit earlier to have a look around and get warmed up.
Keen to see the place, and forecast looks great
Any memberâs tips to help get around out there?
AGP did a cool episode which should give you a few tipsâŚ
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Was definitely a good guide to the course, might spin it up again on the drive out there
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Always hit the shot you know you can hit, not the shot you hope you can get away with.
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The 1st is only a 5-6i and a wedge or short iron (maybe a bit more into the wind). No need to hit driver or a wood and get into trouble early. A lot of people get in their own heads early by being aggressive on 1 and making a cricket score.
2a. For that matter, thereâs really not too many drivers out there. If youâre in between driving clubs, hit the more accurate one.
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If in doubt, all day, play to the front of the green
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Thereâs about 5-10 extra metres left on the drive on 5 than you can see. Youâll have wind up your arse too if itâs from the north. Have fun!
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Donât be tricked into cutting the corner on 13. No need to drive it left of the big flagpole up on the dune in the distance. The land will kick you down the hill.
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Cheers! Was looking at the 1st hole online and I couldnât for the life of me work out what the play would be. Looks like a cool way to start the round, I like that you donât get the chance to just wail away with driver
Does anyone have any intel re when 7 Mile Beach might open?
The most recent update I got was January, but with quite a few fairways not yet grassed, that sounds a little ambitious⌠I wouldnât book before March/April with high levels of confidence.
Donât worry though - it will be worth the wait!
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My Australia New Zealand golf trip for March/April 2023 has hit two snags (a) am in a trial that shows no signs of ending and (b) both my parents are very sick in the hospital.
Silver lining,if there is one,is the opening of 7 Mile Beach, if I do this in early 2024.
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Howâd you go? Good arvo?
Mate, had a blast. Definitely didnât bring my best stuff - took your advice and took less than driver a fee times, but unfortunately every time i pulled it with the exception of 5 and 15 it was off the planet. 8 pars and a birdie while shooting 92 kind of tells the story! I did play the par 3s in even, so that was some consolation.
Youâre a lucky man having that as your home track. As good as the reveal of 5 and 6 was, i was blown away by the stretch 13-16, interesting off the tee and playing into really fun green sites. All the staff were great as well, and all in all was a fantastic day of golf
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Awesome to hear. Thereâs always a few holes that sneak up and get you!
It was a great day for golf but the course played surprisingly hard â I won the comp with only 35pts. Usually you need at least 39 to have a hope.
Agree re 13-16. Itâs an awesome stretch. 5 & 6 are so cool and obviously beautiful, but I reckon architecturally 7 is a better hole than either of them and yeah, 13-14 is the best two-hole stretch on the course.
We were talking about that after the round, Iâd love to have a sense of what ânormalâ conditions are at a place thatâs so exposed to the wind, if there is such a thing.
What about the conditions today played hard in your opinion? Definitely noticed some pins cut only a few paces on that caught us out a couple of times
Yesterday was pretty standard for wind speed and it comes from that N/NE direction about 40% of the time. Southerlies about the same then maybe 10% each westerlies and easterlies (westerlies mostly only in winter and spring).
I honestly donât really know why it played tough yesterday. Greens are softer than usual, pins were pretty central, fairways are pureâŚ
I walked off with 35 filthy that it wasnât 39 but 
Only thing I can identify is that the greens are also slower than usual and Iâm missing a heap of putts on the high edge, maybe thatâs something thatâs challenging across the board.
The greens did surprise me with how slow they were, I left a lot of putts in the jaws. There are some incredible green complexes on that course but it didnât seem like we got punished for being above the hole as much as I would have expected
Absolutely. Weâve just come out of hosting the Aussie Am and the NSW Cup (a three-day WAGR event this year) in the space of a month so I think the greens have been pushed pretty hard through January and early Feb and theyâre giving them a breather at the moment.
That said, we never really roll faster than 9-10 for everyday play because those greens in the winds we often get would often become unplayable at 11-12+.
For a year after I joined I missed a lot of putts short because they look pure and glassy often, and I also think weâve been conditioned to think a course of a certain standing has greens of a certain pace, but theyâre never quite as quick as you might think.
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That makes a ton of sense, and I imagine theyâd always be wary of losing the greens when the wind gets up. Guess itâs a good lesson for next time, but it certainly didnât detract from the overall experience
Not sure how many are involved or lurking but Australian âgolf twitterâ has had a little juice lately. I see @ScottWâs very reasonable JDay take getting some heat from a potential burner.
With LIV coming to Adelaide a little more heat might on the horizon (popcorn meme).
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Creating burner accounts to argue on Twitter about fucking LIV Golf. What a world.
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Golf twitter can be enjoyable, and it can also be a dumpster fire.
What was the JDay take? i give the guy credit for grinding away at his game to get it back - just wish heâd come back more to Aus in his prime.
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