Post round interviews yesterday were interesting. The bermuda rough didn’t look that bad but it was thick enough to prevent a good shot to the green. And the green complexes were very difficult if you missed the green in the wrong spot. Doak and Koepka did a good job with the course. As of a few minutes ago there were only 31 players under par.
Still early, but they are not tearing up Memorial Park. Many of the early starters are finished. -3 is leading. Jordan went bogey, bogey, double and is now +1 and four back.
Not much. Jim Crane completely renovated it to get the tournament venue inside the loop. I haven’t played it but I know many who have. It’s supposed to be a very good course.
I agree on powders. My tastes can’t tell a meaningful difference. I like the consistency of powders. It’s no wonder that the world champion cook off recipes pretty much exclusively call for powders. And they usually use Mexene.
So just as in the the spring they will be playing on rye grass. I guess the underlying Bermuda would already be too dormant in early November in north Georgia? In Houston our Bermuda grass has been near perfect and it should still be great through mid November. But even at its best, Bermuda grass is never as green as overseeded rye. I thought Tiger’s comments were interesting about how the course plays in November. He’s played it several times in November and sometimes it’s driver and three wood into 1 and 18 depending on the wind. We’ll be seeing shots we don’t normally see at Augusta.
It’s now late for Oktoberfest, but what are the better festbiers vs the Marzen Oktoberfest which are heavier? I recently had the Paulaner festbier and I like it better than their Marzen.
Oh, and I recently replaced one of my garage fluorescent fixtures with an LED unit like yours and it was about $39 for the entire unit. My guess is that you just replace the entire fixture.
It may depend on the fixture but i recently had an LED fixture fail. It was a decorative fixture and it wasn’t cheap to replace. There were no replacement strips available that i could find. The strip is built into the unit. But a new LED fixture can last around 50,000 hours. At 5 hours a day that’s around 27 years. My new fixture came with a 5 yr warranty and it’s rated for 50,000 hours. The old one was 6 years old and it’s probably a fluke that it broke.
For the Houston folks, coming to make a recommendation to play Gus Wortham. I played in a charity event there a couple of weeks ago and it’s a fine course and in good shape. It was the Houston Country Club course until the late 50’s. Not long but lots of character and a surprising amount of elevation changes because it runs along Braes Bayou. If you were taken there blind folded you wouldn’t know you were in Houston.
They are slow. But they are made to order with one old lady making the tacos. I call ahead and I usually don’t wait long at all. Still, unless it’s more than 3-5 minutes it’s worth the wait. I like the hot green sauce.
I bet it would. Many lower priced bourbons would do very well in a blind tasting. A bunch of us don’t go there because it puts a damper on the hobby of chasing those special rare finds.
Have you played it since Jim Crane's Astros Foundation renovated it? Tom Doak was the architect and it now plays to 7,300 yards. Here is an excerpt from The Golf Channel's website: “This course is going to make the Tour players really think about how they approach every hole,” said Butch Harmon, who played the old Memorial Park during his 16-year stint as a teaching pro in Houston and saw the redesign for the first time Tuesday. “You just can’t bomb it on every hole there.”
The pros may still destroy it, but it's now much more than a decent recreational public course.