Jake and I played this course in Longmont Co. yesterday, as all the courses here in Aurora are still under a blanket of snow. The course was in good shape, if you don't mind the fairways having just been aerrated. Didn't always get the best roll, but not bad. Who ever designed the course must have liked elephants, I think they buried a few of them in the middle of the fairways. I managed to roll my ball up onto the upslope of three of them, leaving a second shot from a severe up hill lie. Not much fun, but an interesting learning experience. And even,(bad choice of words here), more dead things buried around every green. Never seen so many hills in Colorado, this side of the Continental Divide. I must have had ten chip shots around the green from a severe down hill lie. Chipping from 6-8 feet off the green, being 4 feet above the height of the green, to a green that slopes away from you, isn't a lot of fun either. Real hard to make solid contact with the ball, and next to impossible to stop the ball quickly. And the greens had (or were in the process of) been sanded over. I'm sure the greens will be nice in a few weeks when the grass grows, but putting on sand covered greens is not easy. You have no idea if the ball will roll according to the slope or not. Some times you play the brake, and it works, other times the ball rolls dead straight. Or hits a pebble and bounces off to the side. Needless to say, we didn't sink our share of putts that day. Almost forgot, if you miss the green, be it short, wide, or long, figure on having to hit over a tall hill to a green that's down in a bowl. Summory: It's a nice course at a fair price, but you will need to get used to the sloping greens surrounded by tall mounds. Easy to walk with great view of the mountains. And you had better practice your chip shot from severe down hill lies. Fairways are plenty wide, just avoid the grave sites of those dead elephants they buried. And buy a lob wedge to pitch over the hills guarding the greens.

Hmmm...speaking of tall mounds, we have a strip club just up the street from my new job called Twin Peeks.

JW

Remember that you're married, and practice the bulk of your strokes at the driving range.

Twin Peaks.... best TV show ever made! Period.