Mid-Atlantic Outing (April 9, 10 2016)

[RandallT]

I'll go ahead and commit to both days, as my parents are pretty sure they can slide back a family gathering until later on Sunday. I'll likely have to zip home right after Sunday's round to consume any post-round beverages, but you can add me as confirmed.

Let me know if you need any funds now, and I can call the clubhouse(s) or whatever.

I guess it's time to review my Evolvr lessons and get to work!  The last MidAtlantic outing was April 2014, I started pretty well on the front 9 for me (as I recall), but the wheels came off with lost balls accumulating on nearly every hole on the back. Good times. 

 

Mentioning @atb5079, since I see he chimed in at the end of the last "MidAtlantic outing" thread, asking that we let him know if there's another.

[RFKFREAK]

17 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

We ARE looking at April 9 and 10, but that may be your catch-up time with the gf after a busy March

Yah, sorry, meant that weekend is when I said I'd spend time with her after not seeing her at all in March because of work.

[k-troop]

14 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

I'll go ahead and do that.  If I have a single guest pass not used, I'll find someone to invite some other time.  It seems odd these days, outside of TST all of my golf buddies play at the same club as I do.

We live close enough to each other, and I'm always looking for new golf buddies.  Besides, you'll be looking to win back your cash from me after the April outing!

In all seriousness though, I really do want to make 2016 a year for me to get back to playing.  Aside from 3 months in the first half of 2014 I've taken basically 3 years off from golf with only sporadic rounds on vacations.  And having just moved to Maryland, I need to get to know some new courses and golf buddies!  Looking forward to April.

[SavvySwede]

I can commit to both days. @DaveP043

[DaveP043]

Well that was a productive nudge!  Now we're looking at the following line-up:

Saturday:

@DaveP043, @jsgolfer, @GolfLug, @RandallT, @davechen, @Jeremie Boop, @SavvySwede

with room for either @k-troop or davechen's son or even a player to be named later

Sunday

@DaveP043, @jsgolfer, @GolfLug, @RandallT,@Jeremie Boop, @SavvySwede

with room for k-troop and/or players to be named later.

For those of you coming from well out of town, I can certainly explore some hotels.  I live in Reston, and the area around Reston and Herndon is around halfway between the two courses.  I'm excited to be   Here's to getting back to golf for all of us!

[GolfLug]

Yay! This is starting to look like a very promising weekend!! Excited to see and meet everybody. Goodie...goodie!!!

Thanks a bunch to Dave and Jerry for heading this!

[jsgolfer]

4 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

Well that was a productive nudge!  Now we're looking at the following line-up:

Saturday:

@DaveP043, @jsgolfer, @GolfLug, @RandallT, @davechen, @Jeremie Boop, @SavvySwede

with room for either @k-troop or davechen's son or even a player to be named later

Sunday

@DaveP043, @jsgolfer, @GolfLug, @RandallT,@Jeremie Boop, @SavvySwede

with room for k-troop and/or players to be named later.

For those of you coming from well out of town, I can certainly explore some hotels.  I live in Reston, and the area around Reston and Herndon is around halfway between the two courses.  I'm excited to be   Here's to getting back to golf for all of us!

Excellent, Thanks @DaveP043 for doing all the leg work.  Looking forward to meeting everyone.  Reston Town Center is a really nice place, lots of options for hotels and restaurants and bars.

[GolfLug]

Just FYI, I will have my wife tagging along for the weekend. She will be doing her own thing while we golf but will be out and about with me/us for evening activities on Sat night. So hoping some or all of your significantly better halves will be around too..

Just throwing it out there if anyone wants to score (or salvage) some brownie points..    

[DaveP043]

7 minutes ago, jsgolfer said:

Reston Town Center is a really nice place, lots of options for hotels and restaurants and bars.

Yeah, and a really nice place to stay, the Hyatt.  I didn't actually price that one, but like I said in a previous post, the Residence Inn looks like a bargain at under $80, and its not a 3-mile drive to Town Center.  

[davechen]

27 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

Well that was a productive nudge!  Now we're looking at the following line-up:

Saturday:

@DaveP043, @jsgolfer, @GolfLug, @RandallT, @davechen, @Jeremie Boop, @SavvySwede

with room for either @k-troop or davechen's son or even a player to be named later

Sunday

@DaveP043, @jsgolfer, @GolfLug, @RandallT,@Jeremie Boop, @SavvySwede

with room for k-troop and/or players to be named later.

For those of you coming from well out of town, I can certainly explore some hotels.  I live in Reston, and the area around Reston and Herndon is around halfway between the two courses.  I'm excited to be   Here's to getting back to golf for all of us!

 

Sounds good.  I can PayPal you money to get the cheap rate if need be for me  or both me and my son.

[DaveP043]

Don't worry about it, I'll collect checks or cash when you guys show up to play.

[jsgolfer]

59 minutes ago, GolfLug said:

Just FYI, I will have my wife tagging along for the weekend. She will be doing her own thing while we golf but will be out and about with me/us for evening activities on Sat night. So hoping some or all of your significantly better halves will be around too..

Just throwing it out there if anyone wants to score (or salvage) some brownie points..    

I'll try to get my better half to come, if she isn't already playing golf herself.  

[GolfLug]

1 minute ago, jsgolfer said:

I'll try to get my better half to come, if she isn't already playing golf herself.  

Cool. I am assuming she puts down the clubs at sundown for dinner, no??

[jsgolfer]

Depends where she is playing golf on Saturday, Sunday she will definitely be at the club.

[RandallT]

Kinda geeky, but I am learning Google Earth right now, and created this for fun. Kinda gives you a sense of the topology, even though things in Google Earth look flatter than they feel in real life. I've also found that trees don't look as tall, so GE makes things look like open fields far more than real life:

Dave- that hole #9 tee shot looks interesting, if I've got the tee shot in anywhere near the right vicinity. I probably goofed that up. That's at the 3:16 mark.

And #8 looks like a tough hole!

 

[DaveP043]

@RandallT, that's pretty cool.  You're right, Google Earth makes things look a lot flatter, and minimizes the trees.  You're also right on both 8 and 9.  #8 plays downhill, though, and usually downwind, so its probably not as tough as it looks.  On #9, the tee shot will need to be around 200 to 220 yards before turning hard left.  The tough ones that you missed are #2, 80 feet or more uphill from tee to green with a severely contoured green, and #12, again uphill all the way.  We'll have a good time!

[GolfLug]

10 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

@RandallT, that's pretty cool.  You're right, Google Earth makes things look a lot flatter, and minimizes the trees.  You're also right on both 8 and 9.  #8 plays downhill, though, and usually downwind, so its probably not as tough as it looks.  On #9, the tee shot will need to be around 200 to 220 yards before turning hard left.  The tough ones that you missed are #2, 80 feet or more uphill from tee to green with a severely contoured green, and #12, again uphill all the way.  We'll have a good time!

Seems like the course is outside the city with not too many houses (I see couple of small clumps) adjacent.  

[RandallT]

39 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

@RandallT, that's pretty cool.  You're right, Google Earth makes things look a lot flatter, and minimizes the trees.  You're also right on both 8 and 9.  #8 plays downhill, though, and usually downwind, so its probably not as tough as it looks.  On #9, the tee shot will need to be around 200 to 220 yards before turning hard left.  The tough ones that you missed are #2, 80 feet or more uphill from tee to green with a severely contoured green, and #12, again uphill all the way.  We'll have a good time!

Ah, I see that re: elevation change now. The site I used to create the flyover is provisualizer.com. That link takes you to a profile of Stoneleigh based on the points I plotted (tee, green, and any targets). You might get an error if Google Earth isn't installed, but it does have a cool elevation map I just noticed:

The rise from the 1st green to the 2nd green is definitely impressive! Looks like 5, 6, 7, 8 all go downhill after you go up on #2. Then slowly rise back up to #13, then right back down again. Looks like a fun course. I'll see if I can finish up a flyover of Springfield sometime. I started one, but got sidetracked.

Also at the link (for anyone interested) is the generator for the flyover. Once you map out the points (I use the 2D Planner for that, where you can see range rings (and don't need Google Earth), this link spits out the flyover in a *.kml file that the Google Earth uses. The site does all the "flying" for you, so there's no work on my part other than plotting tees and greens.

27 minutes ago, GolfLug said:

Seems like the course is outside the city with not too many houses (I see couple of small clumps) adjacent.  

Definitely outside the city. I'm west of DC by 15 miles, and I think the course is at least another 15 or 20 miles further west (as crow flies). It'll be nice to get outside the "rat race" circle of DC.