kirvin2
Par Member
I preregistered to play in a two day tourneyment in a city that's over an hour's dirve away. It will be held at two different courses that I had never been too before today. the tourney is next week but I had today to get there and learn the courses. I get to the first park this morning and start playing. Everything is going good until the 6th hole. That's where the signs started making no sense if they were at a teepad. The numbers on the signs were sometimes missing, or the signs were just missing. The layout was really wierd and had players walking around the corner into the line of fire from the next fairway. I got turned around somehow and skipped a bunch of holes and the signs on the tops of the baskets either didn't have numbers on them or even have a sign or even have the sign facing the teepad. It was way confusing. At one point a sign on the basket pointed the way to the next tee, right into a little hobbit size tunnel through the thick underbrush. It didn't look like it could possibly be the right way, but damned if it wasn't right down the muddy trail that's about 100' long into the darkness of the woods. I was going thourgh this wondering if I was going the right way and also wondering why there aren't a whole lot more women playing this sport :wall:
I went to the other course and walked up to the first teepad. All the sign said was hole 1 par 4. I walked the hole and the thing was only about 145' long. I walked back to the pad and asked someone if the rest of the signs were this good and he said they were pretty bad. I left and came home. I could have played the course but my mood was ruined. I feel like asking for my money back and forgetting this tournament, but I agreed to share driving and gas with a friend.
Anyways, I was unable to follow the first course on a number of places. I feel it is cheating to hold a tournament on a course that is this hard for out of towners to follow. If we can't follow it how can we practice for the tournament??? I don't think it's really done on purpose, but it's unfair to someone like myself, who doesn't get a chance to really learn the layout until tournament day. I spent $25 in gas getting there, just to get ticked off at the situation.
I went to the other course and walked up to the first teepad. All the sign said was hole 1 par 4. I walked the hole and the thing was only about 145' long. I walked back to the pad and asked someone if the rest of the signs were this good and he said they were pretty bad. I left and came home. I could have played the course but my mood was ruined. I feel like asking for my money back and forgetting this tournament, but I agreed to share driving and gas with a friend.
Anyways, I was unable to follow the first course on a number of places. I feel it is cheating to hold a tournament on a course that is this hard for out of towners to follow. If we can't follow it how can we practice for the tournament??? I don't think it's really done on purpose, but it's unfair to someone like myself, who doesn't get a chance to really learn the layout until tournament day. I spent $25 in gas getting there, just to get ticked off at the situation.