Sick water ball incoming.
1 Like
Iām just going by the GPS course map. We talking a flat 225ish carry?
1 Like
Yeah 225 carry, probably closer to 235+ on a good line. Could be different depending on the teams. Iām just getting the trash talk stared.
Note: 8 has my number and I lay up too much lol.
1 Like
Iām just gonna let you trash talk yourself here man.
2 Likes
A man who knows his limits is dangerous my son.
2 Likes
LOVE this attitude. Keep it coming partner, self deprecating is my MO as well. The joely d attitude.
1 Like
If any locals have a minute to share some thoughts on Aguila, we first timers would love to hear about the course! I cruised through a GPS tour a few times and it looks really fun. Iām not a short hitter and even still it looks like a place where you would want to hit driver a lot. Several holes where you can take on a fairway bunker to shorten the approach or go for a par five in two. The most provocative is #6 below: a very linksy hole design for the middle of the desert.
2 Likes
Six is a great hole. The fairway runs downhill after that bunker and the green is multi-tiered. Do not want to be above the hole there at any cost. Can also play the mega angle into the fifth fairway (I do this unintentionally pretty frequently).
With the exception of a couple holes, you can usually miss on one side off the tee and be totally fine. All about missing on the correct side. Some of the desert is playable but there are plenty of hills and valleys that can kick balls into unplayable/in findable spots on some holes. The greens are generous enough in size and almost all generally slope back to front. I havenāt played there in quite a while, so not sure what the green speeds are like rn. The green surrounds are pretty undulating. Lots of uneven lies which makes it fun. Wouldnāt say the surrounding undulated are too extreme though. Just adds intrigue.
2 Likes
6 is the hardest hole on the course in my opinion. Itās a perfect hole in that there will be a shot at some point you wonāt want to hit. Option one, lay back off the tee and hit anywhere short and left of the bunker, but that leaves you a really tough approach, likely an uneven lie to a two tiered green from a bad angle. Option two is the hard tee shot, carry the bunker into a narrowing and sloping fairway that wants you to land a big cut into a tight window, still leaving an awkward uphill wedge shot.
I love the hole. Itās unique and slots into the perfect spot into the routing on the front 9.
2 Likes
Iāll add, the front 9 is incredible. 1, 4, 6, 8 and 9 are wildly different Par 4ās, each ask totally different questions and each are great golf holes. 2 is the weakest hole on the front but even still usually offers some good strategy options on your second and third shots.
The closing stretch of 14-18 is a better than average finishing set. 18 demands a great tee shot to have a good look on the approach, 17 is reachable and a mirror of a hole to 8, 16 is a hard long-ish par 3, 15 is the narrowest par 5 on the course with a tough green site if you arenāt on the surface, and 14 is a tricky par 4.
The holes 10-14 switchback through a section of the property that can feel a bit repetitive, but the holes offer different challenges including a simple but difficult short par 3.
I love the course, if you couldnāt tell. In an architecturally bankrupt region it punches way above its class and is more intriguing to play than 90% of the $150+ courses in the valley.
4 Likes
My strategy on 6 definitely changes depending on what tee box they have the tees on. If itās back like you have shown on your picture, Iāll hit it to about 200 to 215. If we get lucky and they move them up. Itās a lot easier to carry the bunker.
I am not a fan of trying to carry the bunker with a 3W or Driver the landing zone is far too tight. Miss right and it feeds into a bunch of trees where you are dead. Left is more trees or the par 3 tee box which you will have to hit a nippy wedge over a bunker that stops.
I have played the way right ball from 5 fairway and itās a very good spot. Takes the bunker out of play. You just canāt miss short, when short is the play.
2 Likes
We will see how this weekend goes!! Ready to roll though.
2 Likes
WITB
Currently in the 13 Club boat with @ComfyDouble
D: Ping G425 LST 9Ā° (Weāve all seen a driver head, so Ā”Vamos Argentina!)
1: Taylormade Tour Preferred UDI
5-PW: Sub 70 639-MB
50: Vega VW-06
54: Callaway Jaws Raw
58: Callaway Jaws Raw
64: (Break glass in case of emergency) Callaway Mack Daddy PM Grind
P: PXG 0211 Clydesdale
4 Likes
Good luck to everyone! Looking forward to meeting (or catching up with?) your representative at the NIT 
8 Likes
@grantmurphy309 it was fun while it lasted
@GeneralTSo meet @grantmurphy309, @grantmurphy309 meet @GeneralTSo
2 Likes
This was not in the models. Ts and Ps to the AZ folks, especially @Jpop942
3 Likes
Nest member gift might come in clutch!
1 Like
@KMola14 am I following correctly that you found a partner to fill in?
I donāt want to completely ruin things but it may be in my best interest to drop outā¦I almost completely forgot (or more accurately, it completely snuck up on me) that my wife is out of town for a Vegas bachelorette party this weekend. I can lean on the in-laws for help with Stellaā¦but would feel terrible being gone literally all day (why itās different than if my wife had to, no comment at this time).
In short: I can make this work, if needed, but if a drop and reshuffle could be easyā¦Iād appreciate it
1 Like
āpampered fucksā
Donāt sweat it. I can take on all these fuckers solo.
3 Likes