Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Anyone been to Augusta National golf course?
View Single Post
 
Old 04-14-2021, 08:22 AM
Dr Winston O Boogie jr's Avatar
Dr Winston O Boogie jr Dr Winston O Boogie jr is offline
Sage
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 7,940
Thanks: 1
Thanked 2,157 Times in 772 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by scottid View Post
Lucky to have been there on moving day.The setting is spectacular. Everything is manicured and the azaleas are awesome. The best for me was being in the area of the 13th green,, 14th tee. It is almost a sacramental experience. It is so beautiful. God must have made it. You can see the15th green and all of 16 from that area. It is heavenly.
I was in that spot a few years ago and just happened to look over toward 16 just in time to see Matt Kuchar make a hole in one.

It is a great spot but it's difficult to say that there is any one spot that is the best. I was sitting behind the twelfth tee a number of year ago when Freddie Couples won and saw the shot that stayed up on the bank.

I also like a couple of holes that don't seem to get mentioned vert often. Four and five are brutal. I like to stand by the left side of the fifth green and watch the approach shots and putting. That green is one of the most diabolical on the course. Then you can look over and watch the tee shots on the famous par three sixth.

By the way, a friend of mine's son played a couple of years ago and he made birdies on four and five then parred six. He stunk up the rest of the round after getting through maybe the toughest stretch of the golf course.
__________________
The Beatlemaniacs of The Villages meet every Friday 10:00am at the O'Dell Recreation Center.

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, April 22, 1800.