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The Walking Scorer

Adventures of a volunteer on the PGA Tour, Champions Tour, LPGA, LPGA Legends, USGA, Symetra Tour, and anywhere else they'll have me. The Walking Scorer walks the course, inside the ropes, with a group of players and their caddies, records and keeps track of all their shots, and relays that information to the Internet, live scoreboards, and on-air TV personalities.

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April 10, 2017

El Niño es EL HOMBRE !!

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#17 Chambers Bay

May 30, 2017

This is the controversial site of the 2015 US Open, won by Jordan Spieth. Forget whatever you've heard, it's a fun and challenging course to play. It's a links course, walking only (unless you have a note from your doctor). You can take a pull cart or a caddy. Tyler the caddy was great. He works winters at Country Club Scottsdale, and knew all the courses I play in the Valley of the Sun. It's a beautiful location, great views of the bay, islands, and when the sun finally came out, the snow-topped Olympics on the peninsula. The greens were a disappointment, slow and bumpy. They're letting the Poa Annua grow in before they mow them more closely. But the price was right. Due to a computer error, the greens fees posted on the web site for the last three days of May were $89 for everyone, the member rate, rather than $189 for non-residents (and various other prices in between). That doesn't include the caddy, though. Many of the...

Bucket List

April 10, 2017

To guide my travels, I am using the "my maps" function in Google Maps. I made a map of the Golf Magazine Top 100 Courses You Can Play in the US . The purple ones are the ones I have played.

Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Club

September 13, 2017

This one didn't make the top 100, but is the best you can play in Wyoming. It was built in 1961 by Bob Baldock, and redesigned repeatedly; twice, and most recently, by Robert Trent Jones Jr. The white tees at 6793 yards seemed too intimidating, even considering the altitude, so I played the RTJ1 combo (pink) tees at 6142. I thought that, given the address, there would be some elevation features, but the course is quite flat and many of the members were walking. Jones likes bunkers, though, so threading your way through the fairway bunkers is somewhat reminiscent of the target golf common in desert courses. The scenery is surely not desert, with tree-lined fairways and the snow-capped (even in August) Tetons in the background, and water in play on 9 holes. The conditions were great, the weather perfect, the greens fast and true, with considerable contour and a variety of shapes, and ample opportunities for "sucker" pin placements. Ther...