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Havelock country club

Not sure how this track ever got out of beta.....it has a unfinished look about it in so many areas....not fit for tourneys imho...

NIBNOB wrote: Fri Jul 30, 2021 11:37 am Havelock country club

Not sure how this track ever got out of beta.....it has a unfinished look about it in so many areas....not fit for tourneys imho...

giant greens flat as can be. I would like to agree with Mark here not a good tourney course.

It looks like the designer totally gave up working on the greens on the back nine.

I agree and did not notice B-9 when setting pins. Still, flat greens with all straight putts can be very intimidating. I try not to repeat courses for any tour. There are about 220 we have used, with Pairup9, so still quite a few we have not. If it has no notes I assume it is ok to use. Unfortunately there are still courses, out there, that should have notes and I always seem to find them. I know this topic was not aimed at me but just wanted to tell my thought process when picking courses.

IMO there should be no BETA courses in the data base - just finished courses.

As far as I can tell it isn't a Beta ...

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It is not a Beta course. It has been used many times in tours before. Its not one I like but there are many available much worse than this one.

Just played it in PairUp and quite enjoyed the challenge of the course - lots of rolling fairways, ups and downs - yes, back 9 greens were less challenging if shots were close to pin but not otherwise - pins were fair for 14 stimp on Hard greens - we blew up to a minus 9 last round! lol (no wonder I like it!!) :-)

Lost 3 stroke that tournament do to elevation imperfections. 1 up against a raised fringe, 2 stuck under a floating sand trap. This should not even be in the database.

Checking the scorecard, believe the floating trap(or at least one of them) is the green side bunker on 16. I seen one during a previous round and don't remember if it was the same one.

Did a quick flyby around some adjacent holes and seen two other floating bunkers and one with a rolled edge (crossed vertices I believe there called). Back nine needs lot of work yet to be fit for play.

This is just one of the many floating bunkers which can spit you out behind a raised green lip.....Theres just so many better(finished) courses to choose from.....
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