Lawsonia Woodlands

Sunday was our group golf outing for the Memorial Day Weekend for this year. We chose to play Lawsonia this year and based on recommendations we chose to play the Woodlands course (they also have a Links course).

The course was very nice, though some of the greens were still showing signs of aeration, mostly around the edges. They were definitely fast and I really struggled getting the speed right. Nothing like blasting a putt 20 feet past the hole to make you leave everything else short. Once again my driver was psycho, not really doing what I wanted it to. Wish I had a little more time before we played to get it in synch.

As for the golf, pretty ugly. I got off to a horrible start and took forever to recover. I went double, triple, triple, triple to start. Pretty damn hard to have a good round when you're 11 over after 4! I recovered a little to finish the front at +16 for a 52. I played a little better on the back and shot 45 for 97, which was good for 3rd place out of our 2 4-somes. My putting and short game in general really let me down I thought. I had 38 putts, 22 on the front nine alone when I 3 putted 4 times. I did manage 3 1-putts on the back which helped a lot.

Comparing Lawsonia to Wild Rock which I recently played as well, I would have to give the edge to Wild Rock. It has more elevation changes, more ravines and canyons to hit over and crazy 3-tiered greens that make putting an adventure (but also exciting).

Both courses definitely attempt to make you hit something other than driver off the tee. They both had strategically placed fairway bunkers just where you might want to land a tee shot. I thought there were more opportunities to drive the ball at Wild Rock while I could have played the entire 18 without my driver at Lawsonia.

Of course, Wild Rock, at $95, is $30 more than Lawsonia. Oh, and you can have a beer at Wild Rock while Lawsonia is dry, in case that factors into your golf outings. We drove about 30 miles to Kelly's Bar in the middle of no where off Hwy 73 to tip back a few.

Anyway, it's over, I survived...