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Holy cow...we don't have fog in this part of the country very often,  but we sure as hell had fog today!   It was so dense that you couldn't see past the tee boxes.    If you found your ball 100yds from the green, the green was still 100% obscured!  You couldn't see any landmarks or anything to fine tune your line.   Pick a club and fire away and the white sheet in the sky baby!...LOL   I wanted to get done early so off I went to challenge the fog.....

Stone Canyon is possibly the most penile course I have ever played, and I opted to play it while completely BLIND!  Hahahaha.....this is surely a recipe for disaster!

This is the third hole......pretty hole, right?  Miss the narrow ribbon of fairway by 10' in any direction, and you'll never see your ball again!!  Good luck with that ;-)

This hole plays out across a canyon to a sliver of fairway that sits diagonal from the tee. Matching line with distance on this hole is key!!  Better be straight!! LOL

In case you're wondering what it looks like when you CAN see....


Now try playing it BLIND!!  Hahahaha.....

The 5th hole is a nifty par 3 that played to about170yds today..................


Watch out for the trees and native area left, and deep bunker and Canyon to the right!    LOL....fire away!!

Hole 10..............554yd par 5.................

This plays through a tight native forest and rocky bluffs.    Don't stray here!!    LOL    I played the first 10 holes completely bind, and then POOF.........it was gone.   I somehow managed par on 6 of the first 10 holes, but the other 4 were "OTHERS".   I was unable to post a legit round today thanks to the others.........if I carded a HC adjusted score, I scored an 85, but I won't post it because I believe this will equate to sandbagging considering the conditions.

Fog golf stories, anyone?  LOL

What's in Paul's Bag:
- Callaway Big Bertha Alpha Driver
- Big Bertha Alpha 815 3-wood
- Callaway Razr Fit 5-wood
- Callaway Big Bertha 4-5 Rescue Clubs
-- Mizuno Mx-25 six iron-gap wedge
- Mizuno Mp-T4 56degree SW
- Mizuno Mp-T11 60degree SW
- Putter- Ping Cadence Ketsch


Crazy.   We have fog like that some days but there is no way I'd try to golf in that.   Trying to find a golf ball in the leaves in the fall is bad enough but with fog, I'd wait until it lifted.   For me it would be an expensive round, losing golf balls.

From the land of perpetual cloudiness.   I'm Denny

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I've played in the fog on a number of occasions, but usually it dissipates by the second or third hole. When there are other golfers with you, it really isn't too bad. However, I played a local course solo two weeks ago in the fog and did not see any pin on the green with my approach shot until the 12th green.  I lost a ball on the very first hole, and then decided to  to hit knock down shots at about 80% of my normal swing, so that I could follow the ball a little better. The strategy worked perfectly, and I didn't lose a ball the rest of the day.  The big problem was with reduced distance, I only hit 3 greens in regulation.  The good new is that left myself in a good enough position to get up and down. I had eight one putts after my chip/pitch shot and finished with a 40-40=80.  To sum it up, while I didn't have my A game, I only lost one ball, played in 2 hours 45 minutes, shot a very respectable score, and had a great time.

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I don't mind foggy golf. I have somewhat of a bad habit of jerking my head up to see where my ball is going, which leads to all sorts of problems. When there's fog, I completley don't do that.

Corey

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For some reason I've always been really lucky when I've played in really thick fog. To say I'm not a straight driver of the ball would be a huge understatement. I halfway get by making sure I at least miss to the more desired side.

In very thick fog where I really don't have the option of missing at all, with much hope of finding my ball, I don't miss very often and usually find the ball in the fairway.

No idea why. Maybe it's that I try harder because I know hitting the fairway is my only option...or maybe it's just pure luck.


I didn't take pictures of our round on Saturday, now wish I had, we played in the same fog, different course.  We played at Leavenworth Country Club, started at 8am, fog stayed heavy until about 10:30 or 11, we couldn't see more than 100 yards ahead.  It did stretch out our round about 30 minutes, we had to look for balls a lot more than normal, we only lost 2 balls and that was more about the leaves on the ground than the fog, we lost the same amount of balls the next day without the fog.  I've played in fog, but never that thick and that long, the first 13 holes were pretty tough, it started to burn off when we played the 14th hole and by the time we got to 18 it was pretty much gone.

Craig 

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  lumpuckeroo said:
I didn't take pictures of our round on Saturday, now wish I had, we played in the same fog, different course.  We played at Leavenworth Country Club, started at 8am, fog stayed heavy until about 10:30 or 11, we couldn't see more than 100 yards ahead.  It did stretch out our round about 30 minutes, we had to look for balls a lot more than normal, we only lost 2 balls and that was more about the leaves on the ground than the fog, we lost the same amount of balls the next day without the fog.  I've played in fog, but never that thick and that long, the first 13 holes were pretty tough, it started to burn off when we played the 14th hole and by the time we got to 18 it was pretty much gone.

I've been on that property years ago, but never played that course.....we were definitely playing in the same fog!   Stone Canyon is probably 30-35 miles away as a bird flies..........45-50miles driving.   That was nuts how the fog persisted for so long!!

Hell.......I wasn't even ready to play yet.   Everybody was waiting around for the fog to clear when a 5-some of tourists from TN decided to give it a go...  The marshal told them it was OK to go....  5-somes are not allowed on this course and the marshal showed bad judgment.  This is a topic for another thread!!!!    How the marshal decided to allow a 5-some of tourists to set the pace for the entire course boggles my mind.  This was my calling.......no way in hell will I play behind that!!......so off went as a single in front of them.  I know him pretty well and we are friendly, so I later asked him WTF were you thinking!!   LOL....I can elaborate more later on that...

What's in Paul's Bag:
- Callaway Big Bertha Alpha Driver
- Big Bertha Alpha 815 3-wood
- Callaway Razr Fit 5-wood
- Callaway Big Bertha 4-5 Rescue Clubs
-- Mizuno Mx-25 six iron-gap wedge
- Mizuno Mp-T4 56degree SW
- Mizuno Mp-T11 60degree SW
- Putter- Ping Cadence Ketsch


This day turned into one of the prettiest days imaginable with amazing crisp blue skies..........

View from the par3 14th tee.....same day.

Still DEWEY! LOL......but a beautiful day!!

What's in Paul's Bag:
- Callaway Big Bertha Alpha Driver
- Big Bertha Alpha 815 3-wood
- Callaway Razr Fit 5-wood
- Callaway Big Bertha 4-5 Rescue Clubs
-- Mizuno Mx-25 six iron-gap wedge
- Mizuno Mp-T4 56degree SW
- Mizuno Mp-T11 60degree SW
- Putter- Ping Cadence Ketsch



I remember playing in the fog on one unusually warm December day. Had to be quiet and listen to see if the foursome ahead got off the green. Sound of the flagstick going back into the cup was the "all clear" signal. Wish we had GPS rangefinders back then.


  BuckeyeNut said:

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Stone Canyon is possibly the most penile course I have ever played, and I opted to play it while completely BLIND!  Hahahaha.....this is surely a recipe for disaster!

...

Freudian slip?  But looking at your avatar, maybe not. :whistle:

I generally don't like playing during a fog.  But I played once in PA when it was foggy, it was about 10 years ago.  I hit a 5-W off the tee on a relative short part 5.  I couldn't tell where the ball went.  So I re-teed and hit another ball.  The second ball, I could see its launch direction.  So I walked towards where my second ball should be but thinking my first ball was lost as I had no clue which direction it went.

When I got to my second ball, I found my first ball about a foot away from my second ball.

Don

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Not fun. I have enough difficulty tracking my tee shots under clear skies.

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