another new guy from north alabama

[-BAMA-]

hey my name's ryan.. been playing golf for most of my life and just now getting back into it after taking a break during my college years...

hows everybody doing?

[samuraimac]

you sound like a quear to me.... thats what i heard about those bama folk anyway.

[-BAMA-]

you sound like a quear to me.... thats what i heard about those bama folk anyway.

yeah.. coming from the guy who stole my favorite driver and ran off to VA beach...

[samuraimac]

hey man i told you that you could have it back. i can hit anything i want now. i dont need a "favoriate driver" anymore. give me your addie and ill mail it to ya.

[-BAMA-]

hey man i told you that you could have it back. i can hit anything i want now. i dont need a "favoriate driver" anymore. give me your addie and ill mail it to ya.

yay i get it back after 5 years of missing it. nah just give it to me when you come down over the xmas holiday

[JessN16]

hey my name's ryan.. been playing golf for most of my life and just now getting back into it after taking a break during my college years...

Welcome! Quite a few of us Alabama folk on here. I used to live in Florence, and later in Russellville, but I'm in central Alabama now.

Jess

[-BAMA-]

Welcome! Quite a few of us Alabama folk on here. I used to live in Florence, and later in Russellville, but I'm in central Alabama now.

hey how you doing man?? yeah i noticed there was a few guys from the florence/north alabama region on here....

[samuraimac]

hey how you doing man?? yeah i noticed there was a few guys from the florence/north alabama region on here....

yeah man if we can get another 2 people we can have a 4-some at joe wheeler or somewhere near by.

[Henry]

hi there, I'm from england

[JessN16]

Sounds good to me. I've got some vacation time coming up in second week of December; all I know at this point is that I'm going to play a lot of golf somewhere in Alabama.

Have any of you played the public course in Florence that took the place of McFarland Park, up near St. Florian? Just wondering how good/not good it is.

Jess

[-BAMA-]

Sounds good to me. I've got some vacation time coming up in second week of December; all I know at this point is that I'm going to play a lot of golf somewhere in Alabama.

yeah its called blackberry trails...

its a decent course but not even half as good as mcfarland park was.... NOT EVEN CLOSE it is flat as a board... and houses pretty much line the fairways and if you hit your ball in their yard you aint playing your second shot there.....but their pro shop is cool.. and they have pretty beverage cart girls. thats all i will give them. whereas mcfarland park had rolling hills and trees and bunkers instead of houses and swimming pools.... i wish they'd open mcfarland back up... but i guess it wasnt pretty enough for the upperclass wannabe golfers....

[JessN16]

yeah its called blackberry trails...

I hated McFarland--lol. 18 elevated greens were a bit much. There was also a layout issue or two on that course, namely 18 and one other hole where once you were in the fairway, you could see three greens and didn't know which one to hit at. I never played Skypark or whatever they call that one; I did play Spring Creek in Tuscumbia -- what a craphole.

You want hot bevcart girls, go to Frank House Memorial down around Birmingham. I haven't played there in probably 10 years but I still remember the talent. PM me if you guys want to get together next week. If I don't hear from someone by Tuesday, I'm going to go with my plan of playing locally Wednesday-Sunday. Jess

[-BAMA-]

I hated McFarland--lol. 18 elevated greens were a bit much. There was also a layout issue or two on that course, namely 18 and one other hole where once you were in the fairway, you could see three greens and didn't know which one to hit at. I never played Skypark or whatever they call that one; I did play Spring Creek in Tuscumbia -- what a craphole.

call me crazy but i loved the elevated greens on every hole. and i concur with you about the 18th hole... i did have some trouble trying to figure out which greento hit onto when i first played there and forgot to pick up a scorecard....

skypark is closed and has been turned into a subdivision... but i played there almost everyday when i was in high school... mainly because it was just 7 bucks per 9 holes.. it did suck.. it was just a hack-course but it was still golf... pm has been sent. not sure if we will have time to play together but i'll try to work something out. my birthday is on friday so i may either celebrate it at joe wheeler on sunday or monday... (have to work all week including saturday...) i forgot to include my phone number in my pm.. so when you reply to it include yours and i'll get in touch. i have never played the spring park course, mainly cause its just a 9 hole course and i dont like playing the same holes twice... they are usually log-jammed that way... but its cheap enough for a quick 9 if i have time during the week i guess...