4 is no joke! How did @randy end up in the bottom? Green and roll back or just total crap off the tee?
Higher probability of it rolling back, that hole is sooo unforgiving.
That episode made me think of many fond rounds at The Muni in the late 90s ($10 walking with a ILM driver’s license).
The starter back then was famous—he was retired Army and known as Sarge. Maybe 80 or so. He was the starter we all say we need at a Muni but are afraid to have. Back in those days it was so busy they had a No Mulligans sign on the first tee. If you even started to move to your back pocket after biting a ball Sarge would yell from 29 yards away, “Sir, THERE ARE NO MULLIGANS HERE!”
He was prickly but fair. I always played as a single and I would show up and ask him if there was any room, and he’d always say how there wasn’t an opening. I learned that if you just chilled in the putting green he’d get you out within a half hour.
It may be urban legend, but I seem to remember he was killed after jumping on a bank robber running out of an old Nations Bank (now BOA) across from UNCW.
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The latter
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Well good lord…here’s to sarge
Nobody mentioned this brief moment, and it was exceptionally brief, but it made me laugh enough to learn how to make a gif:
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How quickly have we got used to @Randy new putting level! A display like this would have deserved hundreds of posts just a few months ago (see old TSs), and now, not even a mention. The confidence it exudes is inspirational.
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@MerchCzar betting against his Strapped brother, @Randy, still has me shook. I guess brotherhood means nothing when you’re tempted by the C-Suites dirty money.
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I’m sitting here at the urologist warming up my rendition of Moon River and they are 45 minutes behind so I had time to watch the Muni episode again. It struck me that the NLU boys missed out on the real challenge of the course by not playing during peak hours.
Some of those tee boxes are so close to the preceding green that half the challenge is pulling the trigger while you half expect a tee ball to come rolling up—-#3 tee box is the worst, but 4 is within a hard snap hook for sure.
The thing about 3 tee is your back is to the 2 green as you set up. 2 is a par 5, so people are often banging a wood up there to try and reach on three OR they are hitting a wedge from 50 yards off an uphill lie. I once had a ball bound between my legs and roll off the box after hitting a tee shot on 3.
I don’t know that I ever hit that fairway again because of rushing my swing.
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You using the whole fist, doc?
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Personally I was hoping the @MerchCzar would channel his inner Damon Green and bust out with the cat daddy when @Soly dropped a bird. We know he has the moves.
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The Wilmington Muni has always been on my list of courses to play since I moved to the area but this episode and footage of the course blew me away. I had a picture in my head of what the course looked like but watching this episode proved that I had no idea how good it actually was.
This ranks at or near the top of Tourist Sauce episodes for me in terms of how well it showcased a course. I’ll definitely be making a trip up there in the coming weeks.
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Was @Tron pretty drunk here, or was this those “allergies”?
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What does the driver of the passing car think of what’s going down here? You’re just driving down a quiet Carolina street and suddenly you look over to see one grown man slapping another. Is this just Saturday night in Myrtle Beach?
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Sam Torrance used to 
sleepwalk
This course kind of had Ravisloe of the south vibes.
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I agree 100%. God @Randy has been putting a much better stroke on the ball. It would be great if the big guy could post in the Putting thread and expound upon his newfound putting prowess.
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it’s the claw