CCSC Pro-Am 2
I walked with Tom Lehman today. Mark Mulder was also in the group, and his wife was caddying for him. It was her first time doing that, and she enjoyed being inside the ropes.
Lehman and John Fought did the redesign of this course in 2002. I got him to talk about the changes they made. The plot of land is almost totally flat, varying by only 1 foot from the highest to the lowest point. It had been irrigated by flooding, which is how they watered our lawn once a week when I lived in Phoenix in 1958. So the greens were low, and surrounded by mounds, into which they cut the bunkers, so that the bunkers would not flood when the fairways and greens were watered. So all the bunkers were higher than the greens. Lehman and Fought elevated the greens, and kept some of the mounds around them, to preserve the original look, but now the bunkers are mostly lower than the greens, like a normal golf course. That was mostly what he talked about. I mentioned that he must have lengthened the course - "where we could", he said (it's only 6700 yards from the tips), and made the greens faster, and he agreed to that. It's par 71, with a 457-yard par 4, so maybe they changed that from a 5 to a 4 also.
Mulder was a different golfer. After he sprayed the ball all over the place for 2 holes, he hit a good shot on the third. He came over to me and said "I decided to start trying now". I said I was about to ask what he had done with the real Mark Mulder, which brought a smile. He ended up making 3 birdies, but probably scored 8 shots higher than Monday. Lehman shot 68, with a double bogey on the last hole. He had 4 birdies in 5 holes at one stretch. The group was -13, which was no good at all. They wasted a bunch of birdies, though, making 3 on a hole twice, and two on another hole.
Third Pro-Am tomorrow. I'm with John Daly.
Lehman and John Fought did the redesign of this course in 2002. I got him to talk about the changes they made. The plot of land is almost totally flat, varying by only 1 foot from the highest to the lowest point. It had been irrigated by flooding, which is how they watered our lawn once a week when I lived in Phoenix in 1958. So the greens were low, and surrounded by mounds, into which they cut the bunkers, so that the bunkers would not flood when the fairways and greens were watered. So all the bunkers were higher than the greens. Lehman and Fought elevated the greens, and kept some of the mounds around them, to preserve the original look, but now the bunkers are mostly lower than the greens, like a normal golf course. That was mostly what he talked about. I mentioned that he must have lengthened the course - "where we could", he said (it's only 6700 yards from the tips), and made the greens faster, and he agreed to that. It's par 71, with a 457-yard par 4, so maybe they changed that from a 5 to a 4 also.
Mulder was a different golfer. After he sprayed the ball all over the place for 2 holes, he hit a good shot on the third. He came over to me and said "I decided to start trying now". I said I was about to ask what he had done with the real Mark Mulder, which brought a smile. He ended up making 3 birdies, but probably scored 8 shots higher than Monday. Lehman shot 68, with a double bogey on the last hole. He had 4 birdies in 5 holes at one stretch. The group was -13, which was no good at all. They wasted a bunch of birdies, though, making 3 on a hole twice, and two on another hole.
Third Pro-Am tomorrow. I'm with John Daly.
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