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Pastimes : Golf! A thread for the hopelessly addicted! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KFE who wrote (1854)	7/25/2000 7:36:03 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 44013

KFE, re: I have heard good things about the courses at World Woods but if I only have time to play one of them which one would you recommend. Without a doubt, Pine Barrons. It's a great layout that often puts you in positions that call for creative shots. Combination bent grass greens (rare in Florida) that should be hard and fast in March. On one hole you look out from the tee and there is a 250 yard (prox) waste bunker all along the right side of the fairway, if you get in it (and I know from experience) you may have a 150 yard shot over a 30 foot cliff to a blind landing area, from the sand. On another par 4 you have a 230 (from the tips) carry over a waste bunker, or you can bail to a nice wide fairway on the left. If you carry the bunker, it's downhill all the way to the green, and you will probably be on in one. If you don't carry it, it's ugly, probably at least a double. I could go on, lots of nifty holes. Rolling Oaks (the other course) is nice, but not as dramatic, and has Bermuda (slower) greens. Pine Barrons is rated about 10 in the US in courses you can play, I think Rolling Oaks is about 40-50. If you can get there early, World Woods has the number 1 rated practice facility in the country, even with a 4 hole warm up course (used to be free, now they charge). They also have a reduced rate if you play both courses, in March not that bad, in Florida summer heat 36 is way too much for me. You will enjoy, John