Many of you are aware of this blogger's Quest - my attempt to play every course on both Golf Magazine's and Golf Digest's Top 100 Public Courses lists. Golf Digest's list is biennial and now published in June of each odd year. The list was first published in 1966 and is the golf game's oldest ranking of public courses. I have played 88 courses on the current list. Golf Magazine's list, until recently, was published in September of even years. I have played 92 courses on the current list and 198 of the 213 that have ever been on any of the eleven lists, the first of which was published in 1996.
For some time, I have been meaning to check off three courses in Texas: the Tournament Course at The Woodlands, just north of Houston; the Palmer Course at La Cantera in San Antonio; and the Oaks Course at TPC San Antonio.
After a brief rainy stay at Orange Beach, AL during Spring Break, I ventured west to accomplish my Texas goal.
For some time, I have been meaning to check off three courses in Texas: the Tournament Course at The Woodlands, just north of Houston; the Palmer Course at La Cantera in San Antonio; and the Oaks Course at TPC San Antonio.
After a brief rainy stay at Orange Beach, AL during Spring Break, I ventured west to accomplish my Texas goal.
The Woodlands - Tournament Course
Formerly known as the TPC at The Woodlands and a public course, it is now a private course and known as the Tournament Course at The Woodlands Country Club. Opened in 1978, Bruce Devlin and Robert von Hagge were the course architects. The course was ranked 90th on Golf Magazine's very first "Top 100 Courses You Can Play" list in 1996. ClubCorp purchased The Woodlands Country Club in 2015.
The Tournament Course was the longtime home of the Houston Open from 1985 to 2002, hosted the LPGA Tour's Samsung World Championship in 2003, and beginning in 2008, has hosted the PGA Champions Tour's Insperity Invitational.
I left Orange Beach, AL at 5:00 AM on Saturday, April 6 and drove just less than eight hours to The Woodlands to get ready for my 3:00 PM tee time. Unfortunately for me, my tee time was directly behind a group of 24 golfers in a Ryder Cup competition...and the booze was flowing freely! So I had a good bit of time for "on the course" practice as the traffic behind me was light and all eventually gave up. This was one of the first times on a course that I've heard the on course beverage cart employees complain about the sobriety of a group.
I have no complaints about the golf course. Crews were at the site erecting spectator seating for the Insperity Invitational which would be held May 3-5 so the tenth tee was shifted to protect the workers. The course was in excellent shape and greens were fast. I experienced a first on a golf course during this round. From 100 yards in, golfers were required to hit approach shots to the par 5 15th hole off movable mats in order to save the course from unnecessary scars four weeks prior to the tournament. Made lots of sense to me.
The Tournament Course was the longtime home of the Houston Open from 1985 to 2002, hosted the LPGA Tour's Samsung World Championship in 2003, and beginning in 2008, has hosted the PGA Champions Tour's Insperity Invitational.
I left Orange Beach, AL at 5:00 AM on Saturday, April 6 and drove just less than eight hours to The Woodlands to get ready for my 3:00 PM tee time. Unfortunately for me, my tee time was directly behind a group of 24 golfers in a Ryder Cup competition...and the booze was flowing freely! So I had a good bit of time for "on the course" practice as the traffic behind me was light and all eventually gave up. This was one of the first times on a course that I've heard the on course beverage cart employees complain about the sobriety of a group.
I have no complaints about the golf course. Crews were at the site erecting spectator seating for the Insperity Invitational which would be held May 3-5 so the tenth tee was shifted to protect the workers. The course was in excellent shape and greens were fast. I experienced a first on a golf course during this round. From 100 yards in, golfers were required to hit approach shots to the par 5 15th hole off movable mats in order to save the course from unnecessary scars four weeks prior to the tournament. Made lots of sense to me.
After a round of over five hours, I spent the night at a brand new Holiday Inn & Suites in Shenandoah, TX, a mere 4 miles from the course.
Wolfdancer Golf Club
Several years ago, Randy Matthias, a member and shareholder of my home course Coyote Creek in Fort Wayne, IN moved to Austin, TX for employment reasons. This Sunday, I would finally achieve a goal of playing a round of golf with Randy in the Austin area before he moves back to The Fort.
But would Mother Nature cooperate?
The day dawned with electricity in the air and my two hour and fifteen minute drive to Wolfdancer Golf Club in Lost Pines, TX, due west and just south of Austin was going to be a very wet one. So wet that I even pulled off to the side of the road to wait out the torrential thunderstorms.
Randy had been warning the weather would be iffy and he was correct. When I arrived at Wolfdancer, it was raining hard and our 10:50 tee time was not going to happen. So Randy and I did what any upstanding golfer would do. We sat in the pub and drank beer until the course reopened.
Two hours later, we were on the first tee of a course that was drenched with a "Cart Paths Only" rule in effect.
Wolfdancer is a fabulous Arthur Hills designed golf course owned and operated by Hyatt Regency.
That is, the design is fabulous. The course is in TERRIBLE shape! Randy and I were very surprised. This course was ranked the #10 "Best Courses to Play" in Texas by Golfweek as recently as 2017. The greens fee is over $100. Hyatt obviously is not putting any money into course maintenance. The greens were shaggy, the aprons were overgrown with poa annua. The tees were unkept. And I will not allow an excuse of "bad weather" for the state of the golf course. What we saw was several years in the making.
Although Randy and I had a great time playing the course together, there were so many better options had we known. And we are not going to blame our friend, Dan Meese, a former Austin resident for his lousy recommendation. He could not have known.
The course was in such bad shape I didn't even try to capture images for this blog. But I did see a nice hillside of bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas.
But would Mother Nature cooperate?
The day dawned with electricity in the air and my two hour and fifteen minute drive to Wolfdancer Golf Club in Lost Pines, TX, due west and just south of Austin was going to be a very wet one. So wet that I even pulled off to the side of the road to wait out the torrential thunderstorms.
Randy had been warning the weather would be iffy and he was correct. When I arrived at Wolfdancer, it was raining hard and our 10:50 tee time was not going to happen. So Randy and I did what any upstanding golfer would do. We sat in the pub and drank beer until the course reopened.
Two hours later, we were on the first tee of a course that was drenched with a "Cart Paths Only" rule in effect.
Wolfdancer is a fabulous Arthur Hills designed golf course owned and operated by Hyatt Regency.
That is, the design is fabulous. The course is in TERRIBLE shape! Randy and I were very surprised. This course was ranked the #10 "Best Courses to Play" in Texas by Golfweek as recently as 2017. The greens fee is over $100. Hyatt obviously is not putting any money into course maintenance. The greens were shaggy, the aprons were overgrown with poa annua. The tees were unkept. And I will not allow an excuse of "bad weather" for the state of the golf course. What we saw was several years in the making.
Although Randy and I had a great time playing the course together, there were so many better options had we known. And we are not going to blame our friend, Dan Meese, a former Austin resident for his lousy recommendation. He could not have known.
The course was in such bad shape I didn't even try to capture images for this blog. But I did see a nice hillside of bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas.
A hillside of Bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas just above the parking lot at Wolfdancer.
Randy and I left the course and I followed him to a great little burger joint in downtown Austin where we ended the day as all upstanding golfers would, drinking beer and eating bar food. Ha!
We said our goodbye's and Randy headed north to Leander and I headed south to my lodging for two nights, another Holiday Inn & Suites in San Antonio where I would play five rounds of golf the next three days.
We said our goodbye's and Randy headed north to Leander and I headed south to my lodging for two nights, another Holiday Inn & Suites in San Antonio where I would play five rounds of golf the next three days.
The Quarry Golf Course
I had a 7:20 tee time, the first of the day at The Quarry Golf Course in the Alamo Quarry Market area of San Antonio. The Quarry is ranked the 17th best public course in the state of Texas.
The course has two distinct nines. The front nine is a links style course with undulating greens, native grasses and a good amount of water. The back nine is set in an old limestone rock quarry pit.
Prior to being developed as a golf course, the land was the site of Cementville and the Alamo Quarry. The company on the site, Alamo Cement Company, produced Portland cement for buildings, roads, and structures throughout San Antonio. The company built the neighborhood called Cementville where the employees and their families lived. Still prominent to the west of the course are the 200 foot smokestacks that are reminders of the cement plant.
I neglected to write down the name of my partner for the day, a gentleman who was a member at the course and who served as a good guide as I played the course for the first time. It was a pretty uneventful round until the twelfth hole when we encountered the first skunk I have seen during a round of golf. We cautiously made our way to the green, staving off what could have been a trip ruining mishap.
The course has two distinct nines. The front nine is a links style course with undulating greens, native grasses and a good amount of water. The back nine is set in an old limestone rock quarry pit.
Prior to being developed as a golf course, the land was the site of Cementville and the Alamo Quarry. The company on the site, Alamo Cement Company, produced Portland cement for buildings, roads, and structures throughout San Antonio. The company built the neighborhood called Cementville where the employees and their families lived. Still prominent to the west of the course are the 200 foot smokestacks that are reminders of the cement plant.
I neglected to write down the name of my partner for the day, a gentleman who was a member at the course and who served as a good guide as I played the course for the first time. It was a pretty uneventful round until the twelfth hole when we encountered the first skunk I have seen during a round of golf. We cautiously made our way to the green, staving off what could have been a trip ruining mishap.
By the time I walked off the course, the temperature was a splendid 80 degrees under a sunny sky.
The Palmer Course at La Cantera
I had been waiting for years to play The Palmer Course at La Cantera and was unable to work it into my course plan during my first three trips to Texas. I had the second tee time in the afternoon just after 2:00 following a morning event where the course had been unavailable for public play. So I had over two hours to kill before I could begin my round.
As I was sitting in a comfortable leather chair overlooking the 18th hole, I started thinking back to my final minutes at The Quarry and realized I had left a wind shirt and my putter cover in my cart. So much for time to kill. I quickly headed back to The Quarry and after a brief search in the cart storage area, I had my items and was back at La Cantera.
La Cantera Resort & Spa is one of the premier luxury resorts in San Antonio. In addition to golf (there is a second course called fittingly, The Resort Course), the resort overlooks Six Flags amusement park and offers fine dining and world class accommodations.
The Palmer Course was ranked as high as 48th on Golf Magazine's "Top 100 Courses You Can Play" list before dropping off in 2002. It is still ranked as the 8th best public course in Texas. The Arnold Palmer design features many uphill tee shots and just as many that are downhill. I am not normally a fan of blind tee shots but there were aiming stakes for every blind shot and I was not bothered by this feature.
There are five sets of tees ranging from 5684 to 6926 yards with a slope ranging from 116 to 142.
As I was sitting in a comfortable leather chair overlooking the 18th hole, I started thinking back to my final minutes at The Quarry and realized I had left a wind shirt and my putter cover in my cart. So much for time to kill. I quickly headed back to The Quarry and after a brief search in the cart storage area, I had my items and was back at La Cantera.
La Cantera Resort & Spa is one of the premier luxury resorts in San Antonio. In addition to golf (there is a second course called fittingly, The Resort Course), the resort overlooks Six Flags amusement park and offers fine dining and world class accommodations.
The Palmer Course was ranked as high as 48th on Golf Magazine's "Top 100 Courses You Can Play" list before dropping off in 2002. It is still ranked as the 8th best public course in Texas. The Arnold Palmer design features many uphill tee shots and just as many that are downhill. I am not normally a fan of blind tee shots but there were aiming stakes for every blind shot and I was not bothered by this feature.
There are five sets of tees ranging from 5684 to 6926 yards with a slope ranging from 116 to 142.
I really enjoyed the round and by the time I left the course, the temperature was in the low 90's. Ahhhhh. How I enjoy the hot weather!
Brackenridge Park Golf Course
I had the 7:15 tee time at Brackenridge Park on Tuesday morning and misjudged the traffic I would encounter as I drove to the course through the center of the city during rush hour. I arrived with less than ten minutes to spare, paid for the round and was on the first tee in a very ill-prepared state.
Brackenridge Park is the crown jewel of the Alamo City Golf Trail, a system of eight public golf courses. It was was opened in 1916 and is the work of famous golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast. Over the years, like many old public golf courses, it fell into a state of disrepair and many of Tillinghast's design features were lost. Fortunately, a 2008 redesign re-routed the course to Tillinghast's original layout. With a bigger budget came better course maintenance and today, the course is ranked the 19th best course in the state.
Additionally, the Texas Golf Hall of Fame is housed at the course.
If you follow me, you know I am a huge fan of the architects of old -- Donald Ross, Alister MacKenzie, C. B. Macdonald, Seth Raynor, George Thomas, William Bell, and of course, A. W. Tillinghast.
Tillinghast spent time in Scotland with Old Tom Morris and became a student of the game in addition to an excellent golfer. He is credited with over 260 designs and 24 of those designs have hosted major championships. He designed Pine Valley, Bethpage Black, Winged Foot, Philadelpia Cricket Club, Canterbury Golf Club, and San Francisco Golf Club to name a few.
He liked deep bunkers framing short par threes and double dogleg par 5's to test a player's accuracy. And he was a proponent of tee shots in which the best strategy brought danger into play but rewarded the successful shot. He loved trees and used them to define the proper line of play but never used them to encroach the front of greens. He wasn't into blind shots into greens and designed greens that sloped front to back with one of the sides higher than the other. And he did not use template holes like some of his contemporaries.
I was paired with Brad and Lisa, a couple from the Pacific Northwest vacationing in the southern US with a next stop of Scottsdale, AZ. We had the first tee time and played at a good pace.
The only annoying aspect of play was the condition of the greens. All the greens had been heavily sanded the previous day and with the dew of the early morning, were very slow as the ball was covered with a line of sand whenever it came to a stop. Early during the back nine the dew had dried, the greens were still slow, but the ball no longer picked up the sand.
One interesting note about the layout is the back nine begins with a par 3 hole and ends with a par 3 hole. There are four sets of tees and yardage ranges from 5543 to 6243 with a slope from 118 to 126. This is a very nice course that is not overly demanding.
If the other seven courses on the Alamo City Golf Trail are as fine as this, I can see a return trip to San Antonio.
Brackenridge Park is the crown jewel of the Alamo City Golf Trail, a system of eight public golf courses. It was was opened in 1916 and is the work of famous golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast. Over the years, like many old public golf courses, it fell into a state of disrepair and many of Tillinghast's design features were lost. Fortunately, a 2008 redesign re-routed the course to Tillinghast's original layout. With a bigger budget came better course maintenance and today, the course is ranked the 19th best course in the state.
Additionally, the Texas Golf Hall of Fame is housed at the course.
If you follow me, you know I am a huge fan of the architects of old -- Donald Ross, Alister MacKenzie, C. B. Macdonald, Seth Raynor, George Thomas, William Bell, and of course, A. W. Tillinghast.
Tillinghast spent time in Scotland with Old Tom Morris and became a student of the game in addition to an excellent golfer. He is credited with over 260 designs and 24 of those designs have hosted major championships. He designed Pine Valley, Bethpage Black, Winged Foot, Philadelpia Cricket Club, Canterbury Golf Club, and San Francisco Golf Club to name a few.
He liked deep bunkers framing short par threes and double dogleg par 5's to test a player's accuracy. And he was a proponent of tee shots in which the best strategy brought danger into play but rewarded the successful shot. He loved trees and used them to define the proper line of play but never used them to encroach the front of greens. He wasn't into blind shots into greens and designed greens that sloped front to back with one of the sides higher than the other. And he did not use template holes like some of his contemporaries.
I was paired with Brad and Lisa, a couple from the Pacific Northwest vacationing in the southern US with a next stop of Scottsdale, AZ. We had the first tee time and played at a good pace.
The only annoying aspect of play was the condition of the greens. All the greens had been heavily sanded the previous day and with the dew of the early morning, were very slow as the ball was covered with a line of sand whenever it came to a stop. Early during the back nine the dew had dried, the greens were still slow, but the ball no longer picked up the sand.
One interesting note about the layout is the back nine begins with a par 3 hole and ends with a par 3 hole. There are four sets of tees and yardage ranges from 5543 to 6243 with a slope from 118 to 126. This is a very nice course that is not overly demanding.
If the other seven courses on the Alamo City Golf Trail are as fine as this, I can see a return trip to San Antonio.
Like the previous day, the temperature rose throughout the day and we enjoyed a mid-80's temperature by the end of the round.
Last, check out Brackenridge Park's logo ball above. It is one of the more unique logo balls I've seen.
Last, check out Brackenridge Park's logo ball above. It is one of the more unique logo balls I've seen.
TPC San Antonio - AT&T Canyons Course
I left Brackenridge Park in the heart of San Antonio and traveled north for a 1:00 tee time at the AT&T Canyons Course inside the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa.
It took me a bit of driving to locate the bag drop but soon, I was on the property and ready to play some more golf.
The Canyons Course is a Pete Dye design. It is unlike any Dye course I have played and I never would have guessed it's his design. The course features extremely wide fairways and a great deal of elevation change. Various strains of Bermuda grasses carpet its ground. If I recall correctly, water comes into play on only one hole, the par 3 fourth hole.
Although the course is ranked the 20th best public course in the state by Golf Magazine, I was quite disappointed with the conditioning of the course. As I made my way to the first tee, I spent a little time on the Canyons' practice green which was infested with poa annua grass making it impossible to gauge the green speeds. Many of the tees were pocked marked with deep divots.
There are five sets of tees ranging from 5053 yards to 7106 yards with a slope rating of 119 to 139. The front nine does not play back to the clubhouse and there is a halfway house with food and a comfort station.
All in all, the Canyons Course is a good warm-up for the Oaks Course.
It took me a bit of driving to locate the bag drop but soon, I was on the property and ready to play some more golf.
The Canyons Course is a Pete Dye design. It is unlike any Dye course I have played and I never would have guessed it's his design. The course features extremely wide fairways and a great deal of elevation change. Various strains of Bermuda grasses carpet its ground. If I recall correctly, water comes into play on only one hole, the par 3 fourth hole.
Although the course is ranked the 20th best public course in the state by Golf Magazine, I was quite disappointed with the conditioning of the course. As I made my way to the first tee, I spent a little time on the Canyons' practice green which was infested with poa annua grass making it impossible to gauge the green speeds. Many of the tees were pocked marked with deep divots.
There are five sets of tees ranging from 5053 yards to 7106 yards with a slope rating of 119 to 139. The front nine does not play back to the clubhouse and there is a halfway house with food and a comfort station.
All in all, the Canyons Course is a good warm-up for the Oaks Course.
Upon completing my round at the Canyons Course, I checked into the resort. You can find my review of the resort elsewhere on this site.
TPC San Antonio - AT&T Oaks Course
I had the first tee time on the AT&T Oaks Course on Wednesday morning and as a result, my breakfast at the resort was a bit rushed. The restaurant opens at 6:30 AM and I needed to be out of there no later than 7:00. I checked out of my room and loaded my vehicle in plenty of time to be at the door of the restaurant when it opened.
I spent about 10 minutes on the driving range getting loose for the round and when I arrived at the first tee, was greeted by a twosome, one of whom very rudely announced they had the first tee time. Knowing they were making it up and that I had a seven hour drive facing me at the conclusion of the round, I pushed back and let them know I would be playing along, hoping I could move ahead of them pretty quickly as the round unfolded.
As we hit our tee shots, a fourth person arrived at the tee and we began the round as a foursome. Bob and James were the two characters in the twosome and the single was Tony Gill, a retired PGA Club Pro from Connecticut. Tony was at the resort with his wife, an executive with one of the New York banks attending a sales conference.
Let me just say Bob and James selected the wrong tees to play. At 6624 yards, it was way beyond their level of skill. This worked in my and Tony's favor as they sent us ahead before we finished the second hole.
So it would be smooth sailing.
The Oaks Course is ranked 84th on Golf Digest's 2017 "America's Top 100 Greatest Public Courses" list and ranked the 6th best public course in the state by Golf Magazine. The course was designed by Greg Norman with assistance from Sergio Garcia.
The course is much flatter than its sister Canyons course with only 100 feet of drop from the highest point to the lowest point of the property. The course winds through native oak trees and features bunkering with rugged edges. And the bunkers are deep! Only two holes have forced carries but just about every green is guarded by bunkering and elevated from the fairway.
One interesting design feature is that the downhill holes play into the prevailing wind and the uphill holes play downwind.
Finally, Norman placed a bunker right in the middle of the 16th green mimicking the 6th green at Riviera.
There are five sets of tees ranging from 5514 yards to 7435 yards with a slope rating of 123 to 145. The course is a bear to play. Cory Connors had just completed 72 holes three days earlier at 20 under par to win the Valero. And you're struggling to break 90! It is quite the wake-up call to understand the level of professional play compared to your own.
I spent about 10 minutes on the driving range getting loose for the round and when I arrived at the first tee, was greeted by a twosome, one of whom very rudely announced they had the first tee time. Knowing they were making it up and that I had a seven hour drive facing me at the conclusion of the round, I pushed back and let them know I would be playing along, hoping I could move ahead of them pretty quickly as the round unfolded.
As we hit our tee shots, a fourth person arrived at the tee and we began the round as a foursome. Bob and James were the two characters in the twosome and the single was Tony Gill, a retired PGA Club Pro from Connecticut. Tony was at the resort with his wife, an executive with one of the New York banks attending a sales conference.
Let me just say Bob and James selected the wrong tees to play. At 6624 yards, it was way beyond their level of skill. This worked in my and Tony's favor as they sent us ahead before we finished the second hole.
So it would be smooth sailing.
The Oaks Course is ranked 84th on Golf Digest's 2017 "America's Top 100 Greatest Public Courses" list and ranked the 6th best public course in the state by Golf Magazine. The course was designed by Greg Norman with assistance from Sergio Garcia.
The course is much flatter than its sister Canyons course with only 100 feet of drop from the highest point to the lowest point of the property. The course winds through native oak trees and features bunkering with rugged edges. And the bunkers are deep! Only two holes have forced carries but just about every green is guarded by bunkering and elevated from the fairway.
One interesting design feature is that the downhill holes play into the prevailing wind and the uphill holes play downwind.
Finally, Norman placed a bunker right in the middle of the 16th green mimicking the 6th green at Riviera.
There are five sets of tees ranging from 5514 yards to 7435 yards with a slope rating of 123 to 145. The course is a bear to play. Cory Connors had just completed 72 holes three days earlier at 20 under par to win the Valero. And you're struggling to break 90! It is quite the wake-up call to understand the level of professional play compared to your own.
There were numerous workers on the course as we exited, especially surrounding the 18th green as they labored to disassemble the infrastructure associated with the Valero.
Tony and I exchanged information, wished each other well and I headed to the parking lot, loaded up, and was on my way.
Tony and I exchanged information, wished each other well and I headed to the parking lot, loaded up, and was on my way.
Thunder Bayou Golf Links
After finishing my last of seven rounds of golf in Texas, I was on the road, facing a seven hour drive through Austin, Waco, and Dallas. Amazingly, the drive came off without a hitch and traffic was not an issue.
I spent the night at a Baymont by Wyndham and was on the road the next morning before 4:00 AM, facing a drive of five hours to Blytheville, AR where I would play Thunder Bayou Golf Links, ranked the 5th best public course in the state of Arkansas.
I arrived a bit before 9:00 AM and was on the tee by 9:15. The sky was overcast and the wind was fierce! And I was one of a very few people on the course. I played through a foursome on the eighth tee and it was smooth sailing from there.
Thunder Bayou is a links style course with over 80 bunkers and water on seven of the holes. It has five sets of tees with yardage ranging from 4851 to 7232 with a slope of 120 to 143. The Bermuda fairways were just leaving their state of dormancy as the ground had not yet reached the temperature at which Bermuda grass begins to green up. The bent greens were firm and average in speed.
I know it was early in the season but you could see the course had lacked some TLC for awhile. See the two photos. The layout is outstanding...very enjoyable to play. Perhaps summertime with a good spurt of growing will cure the course's ills.
I spent the night at a Baymont by Wyndham and was on the road the next morning before 4:00 AM, facing a drive of five hours to Blytheville, AR where I would play Thunder Bayou Golf Links, ranked the 5th best public course in the state of Arkansas.
I arrived a bit before 9:00 AM and was on the tee by 9:15. The sky was overcast and the wind was fierce! And I was one of a very few people on the course. I played through a foursome on the eighth tee and it was smooth sailing from there.
Thunder Bayou is a links style course with over 80 bunkers and water on seven of the holes. It has five sets of tees with yardage ranging from 4851 to 7232 with a slope of 120 to 143. The Bermuda fairways were just leaving their state of dormancy as the ground had not yet reached the temperature at which Bermuda grass begins to green up. The bent greens were firm and average in speed.
I know it was early in the season but you could see the course had lacked some TLC for awhile. See the two photos. The layout is outstanding...very enjoyable to play. Perhaps summertime with a good spurt of growing will cure the course's ills.
I was off the course by 11:15 and began an eight hour, 533 mile drive home. For the day, I drove 860 miles in a little less than thirteen hours with a break at Thunder Bayou of two hours and fifteen minutes.
For the trip, I covered 3179 miles over ten days through Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, back through Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and finally back into Indiana.
And on the logo golf ball front, I was a perfect ten for ten.
And so another successful trip by the Logo Ball Traveler is in the books.
Next up: Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina in June.
For the trip, I covered 3179 miles over ten days through Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, back through Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and finally back into Indiana.
And on the logo golf ball front, I was a perfect ten for ten.
And so another successful trip by the Logo Ball Traveler is in the books.
Next up: Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina in June.
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