Opening Was Great!
The last and lucky #7 Basket went in around 8:30 AM this morning and our first real day at the Panther's Lair was great! :clap: It was super nice of the DGCR Marylanders: Swatso, DWill and Fascinated Flyer for taking time from their visit to Giles to come play on opening day.
Point of clarification, park in the parking lot between the two schools, towards the back of the lot. Do Not go around and park in the back of the school. Most of the spaces in the back are reserved though it was not a problem today.
Before meeting up with the DGCR guys, I cleared and flagged all the toe boards, finished numbering the baskets, picked up a bunch of trash and ran the weedeater around the 8th green. I also did a little design work while I had the chance. Come the last day of school, PWCS is expanding our building across the 1st fairway, so we need to start looking at alternatives. With that mind, As you come off the 9th hole, you would have to walk back up towards the school to go to the 1st hole. I have flag a possible alternative hole in preparation for the coming construction. You can go ahead and walk up to #1 or you can play your way up there giving a 10th hole option. Here's how it plays:
As you come off #9, if you look up the hill toward the first basket, you will see some pink flagging tied to the top of the fence. The basket is about 60 feet back, directly in line with the flagging.
the tees are flagged by color and marked with red paint. (In case someone pulls my flags.)
The green tee is flagged at the base of the hill it is approx. 150+ up the hill to the basket.
The red tee is just behind and to the right of the storage building by the edge of the drop off towards 9. Maybe 250+ to the basket.
The white tee is inside the track near the long jump box. Maybe 375 to the basket.
There is a
blue tee but is it not marked, It would be on the lower level on the other side of the road from #7. An easy 450 from the lowest level. :gross:
Did I mention the OB, I have the hill up to the fence corner flagged with green flags making anything on the right side of the line or the connecting fence OB from the road up to the fence corner and beyond. It's mainly to protect the green on #3 and did come into play today. A little added design bonus in a way we didn't use the property, going up hill. I dig it and think it will improve the flow. Please let me know if there is any feed back on this possible future hole.
Otherwise we're in and open for business. Please come out and play, enjoy the course and let me know what you think. Thanks for your patience. I'm bursting that we finally have this joint up and going.