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Virginia Beach National GC, VaBeach/Norfolk Va, 181224
Rating: B
Length: 7200 yds from back tees, Slope 145
Cost: $45 18 + cart
My score: 92 through 14 before getting a serious case of arm-pump in my back arm that made it virtually impossible for me to drive or hit long irons with any accuracy. Ordinarily I would have easily broken 100 on this course from the blue tees. The black tees did look like a step up challenge from the blues, but overall the course wasn't really tough.
So in summary, comparing this 145 course to Bethpage Black (not even to Whisky Creek), it's far more wide open and flat with not nearly as many carries and plain and simply put where you have Bermuda grass here and fluffy rough, the Black is some seriously-thick bentgrass with vicious rough that is at least 2-3 high, very thick and will add at least a stroke to your hole. Probably 2 strokes, because the trick is to hit out of the rough back into play and if you underestimate the rough you're probably going to hit right back into it or worse lose your ball, so it is very easy to march up the side of the fairway taking twice as many strokes as par, and then lose the ball approaching the green.. Bethpage Black without a doubt can reduce a grown man to tears.
This course is in no way no shape no how as tough as Bethpage Black.
Plus no carts are allowed on the Black.
Comparing the two is like comparing a community college to a state college.
I wouldn't say that it's as tough as Twin Lakes, even.
It is however very picturesque even in the winter, in conditions like we played in, certainly. I imagine that if you catch it at the right time that it is very nice-looking.
I think this course really has to be seen as eye-candy for the golfer who prefers a fairly wide-open course....admittedly the Bermuda fairways and rough were out of season and white but actually I kind of prefer it this way as opposed to the sea of green they would be in-season. It'll be interesting to see comparison shots taken during the summer...the only real down about this course is that it had been flooded-out earlier in the week by days of torrential rain and just now was dry enough to play, it still was cart-path only after 2 days without any real rain. Plenty of patches of wet-stuff out there. But while it is somewhat lacking in the tree department, and just looks largely like a big old wide-open fairway, the lakes do add to the visuals and you have to keep in mind that most of what you can see, you can't reach from where you're lying on the course. Yes in 2 or 3 shots you might get there, but still. Most of it is a long way away. As opposed to a woods course where you're hoping that you have enough room to hit the club that you're trying to hit or that the club that you're trying to hit is short and straight enough for what's in front and visible...here you can pretty-much see the entire hole on most of the holes. It's a real change of vibe from most courses. The problem is that the course is not isolated enough to sustain the vision. There's just too much road-noise. If this were Golden Tee or some other course out in the middle of nowhere south of Salisbury, it might work. If it were the Links at Lighthouse Pointe, out on the coast of Md where there's nothing but weeds and cattails and a good view of the Chesapeake Bay and the only real traffic is a 2 lane bridge sticking out above the marsh a mile away, it would definitely work. Where it doesn't work is in downtown Norfolk. It might have worked 20 years ago, if and when Norfolk wasn't so built-up and there wasn't so much traffic and road-noise. It doesn't really work now, and it really gives off the impression that the players here are just a bunch of stuffy, crotchety old guys trying to live in the 60s. And that illusion falls apart near the #14th hole when you're playing a regular tree-lined hole that runs past a row of condos, where even the green has a stand of condos close-by. It just falls right apart. The next hole is a good recovery but the illusion has been broken and its hard to get back and so it is good that the course changes at that point to a fairly standard woods course, for the last 5 holes or so, until the #17 and #18 holes, very nice-looking holes, bring back that faded aura of a good open course.
it's not a bad course. It's just not good enough to be a great course.
And especially with the vast amount of Bermuda grass that pretends to be rough but actually does a great job of teeing the ball up making it very easy to get balls up in the air? It's just a lot of bluff and bluster without much teeth. Don't hit into the water or the relatively-sparse waste and the course really has no bite. I take it that you won't be as cold, stiff & sore as I was, and I still had a fairly easy time of the course once I stopped losing balls in the leaves through the first 3 holes.
Just do not get cocky and try to hit hero shots and it's a walk in the park. You still have to hit your normal shots, but your normal shots will do fine here.
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