Willbrook Plantation

By The Caravelle Golf on April 22, 2008 12:50 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Written by Chad



I have been a slacker with the Caravelle Golf blog since its inception the first of the year. I will be the first to admit that. I attribute it to two things: 1.) We are right smack in the middle of Myrtle Beach spring golf season and we have been very busy taking care of all of our Caravelle golfers. 2.) I have been playing like a pig.

I did have an opportunity to tee it up with one of my seasonal employees, KT, and a couple of my friends, Brad and Candace (If anyone out there is in need of a female scramble partner, she is your girl) at Willbrook Plantation. In three years this is only my second trip to Willbrook, the first time playing my own ball. Let me tell you, I have been missing out.

We started on the back 9, and while I am not going to post my score, but there was an 11 on the par 5 15th and a 9 on the par 5 18th so that should give you a clue how I played.

The course does not favor a lefty that hits a fade with his driver like me.  It does however give a pretty good advantage to the female golfers. Not so much with the distance, but with the tee position. The ladies tees are set up to take away most of the forced carries off the tee that you face with the white tees. The middle of the greens are pretty open, but I think they had the PGA Tour playing with Sunday pin placements on the day we played. To get to the stick you needed to be on your "A game" with the irons.


After some early struggles with the driver, I got it turned around on our back 9. Two goods shots on 1 left me with a testy birdie putt that I turned into a routine 3 putt bogey. I saved bogey at 2 after an embarrassing tee shot. Good thing there was no 'Wanker Wagering' with a present female in the group, because I was close to losing that one. After making double at 3, I decided to stop thinking and just make good swings. Good idea!! Pars at 4, 5 and 6. Brad had the shot of the day on the par 3 6th. 107 with wind in our face, over water to an island green, he hits wedge and comes up short. The drop area is just off the back right side of the green and he hits this little half lob that lands softly on the slope, about 3 feet onto the green.

Thinking it might be close, I stop and watch this thing creep down the slope and fall in oh so soft for your everyday ho-hum par. Beautiful display of touch by him. I make bogey at 7. I hit bad shot, bad shot, great shot for a 2 putt par on 8 and then miss an 8 foot par putt on 9 to finish with a 42.

Overall the course was in great shape and can't thank Kevin McGuire, Willbrook's Head Professional, enough for having us out. The May flies started to get under our skin a bit on our back nine, but if you bring a strong repellent out to the course hopefully you can keep them at bay. There was one green that looked like the seed spreader was clogged up when the over seeded a few months back. It left a tee width line of brown across the green. As we all know, no course is perfect and even with the tough pin placements, I give it a 9.5 out of 10. It is well worth the extra 15 or so minutes of drive time to check it out.

Until next time!!

Chad
Caravelle Golf Director

 

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