I'm just getting into golf. One of the things that's cool about golf is the number of courses within a half hour drive of my house. I played one of those places for the first time on Sunday.
One of the keys to playing a new course is golfing with someone that is familiar with the layout that can guide you through your first round. Luckily I had two such partners.
My companions also happened to be quite a bit better than me which is good and bad. Good because you get to see them up close and try to copy what they do and also it forces you to raise your game a little. The bad news is you can only raise your game a little so you end up feeling like an anchor a lot of time.
Campbells Scottish Highlands is an 18 hole track that is fairly wide open. Most fairways lie side by side with no trees to obstruct you in between. Most of the course was wetter than you might expect for May. Unfortunately this forced us to keep our carts on the cart path. This resulted in what I would imagine was nearly as much walking as if we had just walked the whole round but maybe I'm just exaggerating.
After spending five hours there, I've decided CSH is definitely a course that I'll have to put in my rotation.
