Volusianator
BoM Nov '07 & Jan '09
Erin Hills is located in Erin, WI. Two hours from my house, check out the yardages on 1, 5, 9, 10, 12,14 & 18! Holy Hank, I gotta get to this place soon!
Holy Freakin' Golf Course!
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holy crap! That doens't look like much fun from the back tees. 501 yd par 4?!?! 503 yard par 4?!?!
I was kinda thinking this is a hard pan links style course, but in looking at the photos, it looks none too easy. Some of those fairway bunkers looked kinda treacherous on a short 400 yard par 4, add another 100 yards to that and you've got real trouble.
My best, and i mean very best, driver and 3 wood will get me bout 560 yards...i'd still be 100 out on some of those par 5s.
CRAZY!
I was kinda thinking this is a hard pan links style course, but in looking at the photos, it looks none too easy. Some of those fairway bunkers looked kinda treacherous on a short 400 yard par 4, add another 100 yards to that and you've got real trouble.
My best, and i mean very best, driver and 3 wood will get me bout 560 yards...i'd still be 100 out on some of those par 5s.
CRAZY!
A very large percentage of the golfing public should never play from the blacks on this course or any course for that matter. If I could still hit a driver/3 wood 560, my old ass would need GPS to keep track of the ball, I sure as hell can't see that far any more.
Looks like a heck of a course Wade. I wouldn't mind taking that baby on.
Looks like a heck of a course Wade. I wouldn't mind taking that baby on.
I've been telling myself for a few months now that the next course i play where they hold a pga tourney i'm going to play from the tips so i can see how i'd do. In the spirit of the Golf Digest What Would You Shoot? deal. It may be Firestone up in Akron.
But i definitely wouldn't do it at Erin Hills...7800+ is crazy long.
But i definitely wouldn't do it at Erin Hills...7800+ is crazy long.
I played Firestone a couple of years ago, very demanding course. The TPC course here in Scottsdale keeps the course in Pro condition for about a week after the PHX Open and that can be a very humbling experience. I try to do it every year, 102 the first time I played those conditions, I lost a ball that couldn't have been 5 feet off the fairway.
Volusianator
BoM Nov '07 & Jan '09
We also have Whistling Straights near the Milwaukee/Sheboygan area, there's four courses in that complex, the Black Wolf Run River course held a Womens US Open a good number of years back and the Straights course held the Mens PGA Championship a couple years back. I've played both, both several times and once from the tips, the Straights course was a bitch. I'd love to play Erin from the tips, I don't have the game for it, but I'd love to abuse myself that way just to see.
Jay Hemingway
i know because of KRS1
you can fit a small city on that land!!
forget a golf cart, maybe a private jet? lol
forget a golf cart, maybe a private jet? lol
Altercall
I beat you all May '08 :)
I couldn't even get on in 2 on 4 of those holes and I've hit a good half dozen over 350 in my last 2 rounds. One round was wind aided. That course is ridiculous. I wonder what the slope is like on those holes?