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#12,352
Well, I got to play at Memphis CC Thursday, which I didn't even know existed, and I'm from there. Incredible course. Surrounded by a wall and huge trees in the middle of an iffy area of Memphis. Old course, but just awesome. Problem is that some areas run into each other so we wait to tee off on one hole as a ball is on our teebox from a pulled shot coming the other way. Dude walks up, hits his ball, I say good shot, he says thank you, and it ends up being the prince and Guy Pelly who is getting married to a Wilson girl from the Holiday Inn Kimmons Wilson family.
And I had no idea until my laughing friend and our caddie tell me who it was. And I've never had a caddie and it was awesome trying to see how my read compared to his.
I asked my buddy how much the course it and he said 65K to join and $650/month. I don't think there is another club in Tn that is more expensive, and I repeat, this is in the middle of downtown Memphis.
 
#12,353
#12,353
Spartacavolus said:
Well, I got to play at Memphis CC Thursday, which I didn't even know existed, and I'm from there. Incredible course. Surrounded by a wall and huge trees in the middle of an iffy area of Memphis. Old course, but just awesome. Problem is that some areas run into each other so we wait to tee off on one hole as a ball is on our teebox from a pulled shot coming the other way. Dude walks up, hits his ball, I say good shot, he says thank you, and it ends up being the prince and Guy Pelly who is getting married to a Wilson girl from the Holiday Inn Kimmons Wilson family.
And I had no idea until my laughing friend and our caddie tell me who it was. And I've never had a caddie and it was awesome trying to see how my read compared to his.
I asked my buddy how much the course it and he said 65K to join and $650/month. I don't think there is another club in Tn that is more expensive, and I repeat, this is in the middle of downtown Memphis.
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That's pretty cool.
 
#12,354
#12,354
Spartacavolus said:
Well, I got to play at Memphis CC Thursday, which I didn't even know existed, and I'm from there. Incredible course. Surrounded by a wall and huge trees in the middle of an iffy area of Memphis. Old course, but just awesome. Problem is that some areas run into each other so we wait to tee off on one hole as a ball is on our teebox from a pulled shot coming the other way. Dude walks up, hits his ball, I say good shot, he says thank you, and it ends up being the prince and Guy Pelly who is getting married to a Wilson girl from the Holiday Inn Kimmons Wilson family.
And I had no idea until my laughing friend and our caddie tell me who it was. And I've never had a caddie and it was awesome trying to see how my read compared to his.
I asked my buddy how much the course it and he said 65K to join and $650/month. I don't think there is another club in Tn that is more expensive, and I repeat, this is in the middle of downtown Memphis.
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was it Harry or William
Did they have security following them
Kat's gonna be pissed if you didn't get a pic with the Prince
 
#12,355
#12,355
vol_in_ar said:
was it Harry or William
Did they have security following them
Kat's gonna be pissed if you didn't get a pic with the Prince
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Harry. And there was security spread out all over the inside perimeter of the course. It's walled in and only one entrance to everything. Though we also saw them come out of rendezvous thurs night and surrounded by a crazy crowd and a couple dozen security guards with military weapons. Total overkill. Nobody wants the princes dead. Nobody would even recognize Harry. I didn't. They were dressed like euro night clubbers on the course so I thought they were in a band.
Prolly could've grabbed his sig on a towel and sold it, but Im not an autograph person and try not to look like an idiot in public. I have Keith Lee and Ben Crenshaws autographs. That's it.
 
#12,356
#12,356
still cool, that you saw them
sounds like an old school course

65K's a steep initiation fee, I dropped 5k, to join the course here yesterday
took the kids to the range last night, and will start playing after work, during the week
 
#12,357
#12,357
vol_in_ar said:
still cool, that you saw them
sounds like an old school course

65K's a steep initiation fee, I dropped 5k, to join the course here yesterday
took the kids to the range last night, and will start playing after work, during the week
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awesome. My 3 day trip to Barton Creek is Wednesday and I'm going with a meniscus tear. Doesn't really hurt when I swing and I have to just be careful walking, but I'm Celebrex/red bull vodka/Amstel light'ing it and playing. Can't cancel on my teammates and they all voted to take me injured over subbing for me so I gotta go. Plus, the courses look awesome.
 
#12,359
#12,359
the longer than usual winter coupled with the very heavy rains of the past month have the courses here STRUGGLING. I hear Pinehurst still looks immaculate though. Getting to go to the practice rounds. Can't wait.
 
#12,360
#12,360
volfanbill said:
the longer than usual winter coupled with the very heavy rains of the past month have the courses here STRUGGLING. I hear Pinehurst still looks immaculate though. Getting to go to the practice rounds. Can't wait.
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We are in embarrassing shape and members are ticked. I can't take customers out there and won't ask friends because the course has been badly mishandled with nothing but excuses. We are bermuda and the course is still dead and brown. The company running it seems to not care too much and is a land developer so maybe that's why.
 
#12,363
#12,363
Spartacavolus said:
Well, I got to play at Memphis CC Thursday, which I didn't even know existed, and I'm from there. Incredible course. Surrounded by a wall and huge trees in the middle of an iffy area of Memphis. Old course, but just awesome. Problem is that some areas run into each other so we wait to tee off on one hole as a ball is on our teebox from a pulled shot coming the other way. Dude walks up, hits his ball, I say good shot, he says thank you, and it ends up being the prince and Guy Pelly who is getting married to a Wilson girl from the Holiday Inn Kimmons Wilson family.
And I had no idea until my laughing friend and our caddie tell me who it was. And I've never had a caddie and it was awesome trying to see how my read compared to his.
I asked my buddy how much the course it and he said 65K to join and $650/month. I don't think there is another club in Tn that is more expensive, and I repeat, this is in the middle of downtown Memphis.
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Best part of MCC is the coolers with fresh lemonade. It's incredibly nice but, like you said, cramped.
 
#12,364
#12,364
TennesseeOrange said:
Best part of MCC is the coolers with fresh lemonade. It's incredibly nice but, like you said, cramped.
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I loved it though, and I usually dont like tight courses. But playing with a torn meniscus, I still shot 82 from the blue tees and really only had 4-5 bad swings the whole day. When you play a new course and play unexpectedly well, it's always nice.
I may have found a new swing secret. If you bust your knee, you can't over rotate or swing too hard. I had a chort and tight swing and the ball took off.
 
#12,365
#12,365
Spartacavolus said:
We are in embarrassing shape and members are ticked. I can't take customers out there and won't ask friends because the course has been badly mishandled with nothing but excuses. We are bermuda and the course is still dead and brown. The company running it seems to not care too much and is a land developer so maybe that's why.
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The brown is just finally going away here. I was home in JC two weeks ago and noticed it was around half and half brown to green. Here in the Fort Bragg area, there's way more green, but the big problem is patches of missing grass, especially on and around greens. To protect fairways, some of them are almost first cut high. The first cut is pure rough and the rough is soft sand/soil.
 
#12,366
#12,366
****! Anybody know about how weather in Austin usually acts? Calling for severe tstorms on the 3 days of our matches. Go figure. And it'll be cart path only and my knee will be barking.
 
#12,367
#12,367
volfanbill said:
The brown is just finally going away here. I was home in JC two weeks ago and noticed it was around half and half brown to green. Here in the Fort Bragg area, there's way more green, but the big problem is patches of missing grass, especially on and around greens. To protect fairways, some of them are almost first cut high. The first cut is pure rough and the rough is soft sand/soil.
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It's a problem everywhere right now. I'm far enough south that everything finally greened up mid to late April, but courses in north GA are still recovering from the harsh winter and all the rain.
 
#12,368
#12,368
Spartacavolus said:
awesome. My 3 day trip to Barton Creek is Wednesday and I'm going with a meniscus tear. Doesn't really hurt when I swing and I have to just be careful walking, but I'm Celebrex/red bull vodka/Amstel light'ing it and playing. Can't cancel on my teammates and they all voted to take me injured over subbing for me so I gotta go. Plus, the courses look awesome.
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comp just back, he said hit him up for info
 
#12,369
#12,369
GAVol said:
It's a problem everywhere right now. I'm far enough south that everything finally greened up mid to late April, but courses in north GA are still recovering from the harsh winter and all the rain.
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we finally got a response. Problem that makes this worse are multiple promises by the course that didn't come to fruition. Now, it's in embarrassing shape and they still are raising fees and guest fees are way too expensive. They are blaming on the winter, but there are too many courses around that planned a little better and are not as affected.
Now, they are talking about reseeding with rye or switching to zoysia and jacking up our rates again. To overseed with rye is 15k/yr, and paying that should be a non issue.
 
#12,370
#12,370
Spartacavolus said:
we finally got a response. Problem that makes this worse are multiple promises by the course that didn't come to fruition. Now, it's in embarrassing shape and they still are raising fees and guest fees are way too expensive. They are blaming on the winter, but there are too many courses around that planned a little better and are not as affected.
Now, they are talking about reseeding with rye or switching to zoysia and jacking up our rates again. To overseed with rye is 15k/yr, and paying that should be a non issue.
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Is it a newer course? A lot of times those land guys build courses with a bulldozer on the fly in the middle of a subdivision and don't plan so well for things like drainage, erosion, topsoil etc.?
 
#12,371
#12,371
I now work for a company that owns various courses around the Carolinas and I'll be picking up the game again. I'm rusty to say the least, but I'm going to enjoy being able to play again.
 
#12,374
#12,374
GAVol said:
Is it a newer course? A lot of times those land guys build courses with a bulldozer on the fly in the middle of a subdivision and don't plan so well for things like drainage, erosion, topsoil etc.?
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pretty much. Southerland is the company and drains are in the wrong damn spots.
How they managed to kill Bermuda is damn funny though. I didn't know it was possible.
I did hear about a few more courses in trouble as well, but our point is why have a plan now? This has been happening for months.
 
#12,375
#12,375
Spartacavolus said:
pretty much. Southerland is the company and drains are in the wrong damn spots.
How they managed to kill Bermuda is damn funny though. I didn't know it was possible.
I did hear about a few more courses in trouble as well, but our point is why have a plan now? This has been happening for months.
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Hopefully, they haven't permanently choked out the root system and a dry week of 80+ will kick everything into gear. Few things worse than paying dues for the privilege of playing a dirt farm. I've been there.
 
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