Blue Monster

[cepausm]

So I got a chance to play the Blue monster yesterday. My Bosses bosses boss(site lead) got four free tickets to play there from his investment banker.

I must say it is really nice to play on a course of this caliber. I was actually so nervous waiting on the first tee my hands were shaking. After I saw my friends go into the rough it calmed me down a little and I actually surprised myself out there hitting it pretty well. I am not a very long hitter so my strategy was to play every hole like I had an extra shot, for example if it was a par 4 then I would play it as a par 5. I never played a driver off the tee as I am not that accurate with it and the rough on the course is very deep. It is so deep that unless you are standing right over your ball in some places you will not find it. I used my hybrid 3/4 irons to tee off and our foursome played off the white tees.

All in all I must say I was very pleased with my performance, I wish I could do the first three holes over where I scored the 8's on them and the 10th where I imploded on myself with a 9 and the last two where I had 8's also(stupid sand traps). I recorded my first actual par ever on hole 4 with a 80 foot chip in and again on hole 7 where I had a 6 foot putt after my approach shot.

A few things I noticed, I have a hard time hitting off the tees, I will top the ball, worm burn it, or slice it to the rough and the ball would go about 75 yards but the next shot I would use the same club and hit a perfect shot 200 yards down the middle of the fairway. It got to the point that my site lead said to me "Now why the f*** can't you do this off the tee?" I think it may be everyone standing around watching me, I don't know. The rough there is just as nasty as everyone says it is. And I am actually proud of the way I played out there, my score would probably be horrible to most of you but seeing as I am a high handicapper and playing on a championship level course I am happy with my 114(57 front, 57 back). I thought it would be MUCH worse.

If you ever get the chance to play the course I would recommend it, it is beautiful and in perfect shape. I will try to post my scorecard sometime this morning.

Here is a link to the scorecard.
http://www.doralresort.com/_files/_p...RSCORECARD.pdf
I shot:
8 8 8 3 7 6 4 8 5 57 on front
9 6 6 5 5 5 6 8 8 57 on back

[DJYoshi]

Doral's a BEAST on it's own. all of the courses are pretty tough...then you take the blue monster & I've lost a good amt of balls on that course. I'll be down there in December if you wanna play again. probably gonna play there and miami beach cc

[meeks7]

I like that you thought about the round instead of hitting driver and shooting alot higher that shows composer....that course gets the best of even the pros not to bad