Northwest GC, Silver Spring MD 170709
7350 yds, slope 130 from the black tees
Rating: B
This course uses the same-color flag at every green.
This is a nice, long hitter's course with a good layout & a nice clubhouse, but overall the course is still kind of mundane. A good B-level course that's probably the longest public course in the state, with very-few houses visible from the course,, but otherwise is entirely average. Its main challenge is its length. The rest of the course is simply average. Waste, carries, verticality, tightness, hazarding, all average. Nothing much around the greens but the standard drop-off away from the green, back & sides, traps guarding the green. Little in the way of bumps, ridges, swales or rough, ball-trapping foliage even sand along the fairway. Definitely gently sloped side to side where sloped at all. Even the rough is not very tough. It's long & dense enough to be legitimate rough, but not so much that it's hopeless to even try to find balls in it or hit out of it. The greenside rough not long at all. They even chose possibly the toughest pin placements they could find for this Sunday round, even so, just not that tough. We weren't able to hit 9-irons into 5 feet so no problem for us, we were left with the usual 15-30 ft putts on big, slow, smooth greens with gentle swales as the main challenge on the greens. Easily average putting speeds, yielding a lot of 2-putts once you get used to the speed. The big problem with putting was the aeration, as usual.
It is average in so many ways that being average is its main outstanding feature. Except for the length, which is most certainly above-average. In fact I think this is the longest course that I've ever played.
Good food, a decent clubhouse, but with regards to the course the list of averageness just goes on & on.
I did dock it for some road noise on a few holes, no real views, not much in the way of water on the course, no real carries except on 2 holes on the backside. It's just a little too flat, a little too plain...I mean it's 7350 from the back tees but still only slope 130 & that really says a lot. it takes a bunch of good area holes & does them right in the sense that they are done well but without any real bite.
Mayonnaise.
A few holes clearly had recently been aerated using the slot-cutting technique. The effect was that the grass grew well in the slots & poorly outside of them with the end result that the green had a sort of corduroy look & feel to it, 4 ridges of high grass where the slots were cut. It was all weird. So no real solution in slot-cutting to the problem of aeration fucking-up the way the greens play when putting. Just replace the whole green. Please. Greens at best a C.
But there just weren't any tough holes.
Not saying that they were all easy.
But they were all kinda easy with #8 as the standout hole in terms of difficulty, the only green resembling a tabletop green. The 8th is somewhat intimidating from the fairway due to the height of the long approach. On some holes there is a dry waste basin or moderate waste just about 25 yards off the side of the green. In general you don't want to be wildly off the green or fairway. But otherwise, no real threat.
A long, toothless tiger that basically just gums you to death over the course of 5 hours. Really they had to rely on making the pin placements as difficult as possible to give the course any real bite.
It's really unusual. It's clear to see that this course was kept tame for the general playing public. But it's still significantly longer than most public courses. But still again, not hugely longer. There are a fair number of 7200 yard courses in the area, most of which are much tougher than this. I would expect a 145 slope out of a course this long, not what is essentially a 6800 yard 120 slope course that needs an extra 500 yards just to make it to 130 slope. It's the golf equivalent of a casual Sunday drive. The big challenge is to not take it for granted, lose focus & start wasting strokes due to inattention.
One thing this has going for it is that it is a legitimate 7300yd course from the black tees, not a big flat wide-open wasteland like Great Hope, but still at least GH had some truly challenging holes. While few of the holes were so straight & wide-open that you could see the green from the tee-box, there was still enough verticality so that you definitely could see the fairway 300+ yards out, where GH is so flat that often you just have to hit the ball in the general direction of the green, chase it down & hope for the best. So a definite step up from that, but without a doubt the biggest hazard on this course are the players themselves. Don't get me wrong, this is a good course, but still the easiest 7300 yd course that you will probably ever see in your life.
Rachel Carson Greenway Trail Silver Spring Md.
This park is along the northwest branch of what becomes the Anacostia river. This side of the creek is the Rachel Carson Trail. Please enjoy this.
Lodestone Golf Course Hole #1
Lodestone Golf Course Hole #1 Flyover. 429 Yard, Par 4
Maiden Maryland Drone Flight with Mavic Pro
My friend Karla's first time flying a drone outdoors and only the second time ever. We're at Northwest Branch Recreational Park in Silver Spring, MD, overlooking the Northwest Golf Course, within a couple miles north of the DC no-fly zone.
Rattlewood Golf Course
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Shea - Par 3, 8th Hole at Hampshire Greens
Recorded on August 28, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder.
NHS Class of 1976 40 Year Reunion
Northfield High School Class of 1976 40 Year Reunion
Northern Montana Scenery and the Charley Russell Museum
Drove to Great Falls Montana today.
Matthew Henson Trail Silver Spring Layhill Rd to Georgia Ave 1.5 miles in pictures
This was created so you could see what the trail really looks like. It is not totally secluded you do see some houses through the trees, a stable with some horses from Barrie Day School and some apartments. When you get to Georgia Ave the 1.5 miles end you can stop and get water before going back - there is a Citco Market to the right of the trail on Georgia Ave. If you are hungry before going back you can go a little further to the strip shopping Center and there is an Outback, a Subway, an Italian small place and various other avenues of eating there. This trail extends as you can see in the picture of signs another 2+ miles to get to Rock Creek Trail on beach Drive, so it is a good bicycling Trail and it is wide, but there is a lot of bridges of boards to prevent swampiness. A nice 3 mile walk from your car and back-you can see there are parking lots that usually have space on either end of this section. Enter from Layhill Road or Hewett Ave behind the Church off Georgia Ave. Onward!
Jim Estes GRAA Growth of the Game Video
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Rattlewood GC, Mt. Airy Md. 180420
6300yd slope 125 from the back tees
Grade: B-
Mostly a wide-open hitters' course, relatively little in the way of obstructions or hazards. Good verticality, nice greens, really good condition especially for April & good sand in the bunkers. A good deal at the $45/18 price before noon during the week, with a cart, free lunch & a medium bucket of range-balls. Not too far out of town, not too much traffic, a pleasant drive & easy to get to. Only a few layout quirks & the Usual Suspects (houses & road-noise) keep this from being a great sleeper course. As it is it can't make me forget about Hampshire Greens or even Northwest even just among the MGC courses & certainly it wouldn't make me forget about the many area curses that are just bigger, better, more interesting & more challenging, but still this is a good course & a nice find. I would confidently call this the lower threshold of what I would consider to be a good, well-run public golf course. But if it were up to me, at the very least I would lower the greens for #3 & #11 by 6 feet & leave a berm behind them. As they are the greens are effectively invisible unless you're inside of 50 yards which is just bullshit, & I'd grow big between the #7 & #9 fairways to make the line of play obvious, at least move the forward tees left so they have a straight shot up the hill to the green. Right now there's just a giant waste area there that serves no purpose whatsoever other than to mislead players to hit left towards the #9 fairway. And I'd grow some waste on #6 on the far side of the pond near the cart-path. Otherwise the layout is pretty-much the best that can be done with the course, it's a good layout, challenging enough, & all that remains is to manage it well & have a fun round. Hard to ask for more given the land on which the course sits, really. It just would be nice if there weren't any houses on #13-#15 & on the #18th tee-box & fairway, but you can't have everything, really.
The thing is that #18 here is a lot like #1 at Hampshire Greens but #1 at HG is just better & that starts a mental train rolling that this course can't stop.It just cannot compete with a course that is almost the same price but is just better, hole after hole, & on top of that is maybe 20 miles to the south, & in that 20 mile radius there are a LOT of good public courses at or near the same price. Some that are clearly not this good, but even most of those are not a lot worse.
But in & of itself, considered in isolation, it's quite a decent course. The problem is that you're never going to consider this course in isolation. I just kept thinking this hole is a lot like #XX at course YY but that hole does the same thing better. In the end it's just squarely in the middle of the pack. A course with many solid good points, but no real knockout punch. But if you live in the area & want to play a decent course at a decent price, you definitely don't need to go driving away from this course to get that. There's none of the Falls Road Syndrome here (or worse the Patuxent Greens syndrome).
Still it is in Mt. Airy & that's at least 30 minutes away from Columbia or Rockville even with good traffic. The thing is that from any place other than Mt. Airy, Damascus or somewhere close, you either have to pass a better course to get here or there is at least one better course that's the same distance & degree of difficulty to get to. And this course, while decent, is just not in the same league as many better area courses, courses that are almost 1000 yards longer & 20 points higher from the back tees at or just slightly above this price-level. It’s clearly at the top of the bottom third: above Redgate, Falls Road, Patuxent Greens, Glendale, Penderbrook, Enterprise & the like, but not really up in the big leagues. I couldn't rate it above Pohick Bay or Walden, certainly not above Forest Greens. I'd put up with the houses to play Hampshire Greens or Cross Creek instead. There are so many good area golf courses that have the same level of housing & road-noise, even worse, that are still a better challenge of golf. It depends on what trade-offs you want to make to have the ability to swing for the fences on so many holes. Not saying that it's impossible to hit into trouble here, but it's pretty damm hard. You definitely don't have to play Precision Golf like at a lot of area courses.
Undoubtedly its real strength is the combination of decent price, facilities, verticality & layout, good greens & traps, modestly-long carries (nothing over 150 yards even from the back tees), easy to get to location & wide landing-areas largely unfettered with trees & waste. Important factors but it's not strong enough to take home a trophy among all the area courses. But with lowered expectations it's still a fun round.
Needwood Golf Course
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