To Golf... or not to Golf...

So I went golfing the other day... Well I tried to that is. I was taken to the craziest course I've ever seen (please note I haven't seen too many, maybe 4 or 5). But as I'm looking up information on it for this post, I feel better, because it seems I'm not the only one to have their a** handed to them by it. I'm not a pro by any means. And maybe it was my lack of hitting the ball, then it was the actual course besting me, but it was still crazy.

The course is up by me and called Crystal Springs. It was a beautiful course, and the best part (although it added like an additional 45 mins to the day!) was driving the golf cart to each hole. Each hole was basically separated by wooded areas, and land, and condos. So it was very scenic. here are some pictures i found on the website.

Here's my favorite hole. Why? Well, do you see that little space between the row of condos at the top of the picture? Well... that's where the tee box was. Par3 150yds, and about a 50yd drop =) My shot conveniently sliced way to the left of the picture. Lost ball #8


This one looks all innocent and stuff, but too bad they didn't back up the camera and actually show you the actual fairway. On my 6th shot of this par 4, i landed a ball right on that little piece of land sticking out into the water, about 8inches from the edge of the water... I was excited! =)


You see all those rolling hills? Well imagine 75% of the holes having them and 60% of those with ones 2-3times larger.


Please notice the text at the bottom of this "Rated the most challenging course in New Jersey". NOW YOU TELL ME!


All in all it was a fun time. I shot a 125 (not actually as we didn't have anything over a double par... so if par was 5, the max you can get for the hole is 10). If we were doing a straight out game w/ no concedes, mulligans, or "i didn't see that"'s i probably would have gotten like a 150. I still have to work on getting my drives down, my middle game, as well as my putting... so basically everything. To you new players, when you first started skiing did you hit the black diamond the first time? NO! so don't go here unless you have a LOT of extra balls, and at least a bottle of vodka to numb the pain.