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Date: 30 Nov 2006 18:21:24
From: Jeff Beeton
Subject: Farm Links GC, Childersburg, AL
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I played this research-sponsored course in Southern Talladega County Friday
after Thanksgiving. Granted the weather was perfect and my companions were
better golfers, but I had a great time.
For $100 greens fee, I enjoyed a nearly perfectly maintained course with
merely a few groups playing. Warm up balls on a nice targeted range, a
chipping green, and practice green followed by a 4 hour round in the
delightful Central Alabama rolling hills. The non-alcohol drinks and snacks
from the cart lady were included as was a delicious post round lunch of
chicken cordon bleu. Replays were also included but I had to leave after 18.
It is not part of the RT Jones golf circuit, and was designed by a no name
outfit from Nebraska, is operated by a fertilizer company with a partnership
with Toro and Club Car; but I will be back.
Each fairway had a different variety of grass, the greens were poa annua and
fast and consistent.
I can't wait to return and challenge it again.
Boston Golfer Jeff
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Date: 30 Nov 2006 18:28:27
From: Ben.
Subject: Re: Farm Links GC, Childersburg, AL
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On Nov 30, 5:21 pm, "Jeff Beeton" <bigfl...@comcast.net > wrote:
> Each fairway had a different variety of grass, the greens were poa annua and
> fast and consistent.
The greens were and are bent grass. Nicest bent grass I have ever
played - ran at 12 on a wet day. Poa annua is a vile weed of a
surface, and I have never seen it down south. Out west it is dominant
to the point of exclusion, but I've yet to see it down here...thank
god.
I posted about that course a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/farm_links
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Date: 03 Dec 2006 09:20:35
From: Miss Anne Thrope
Subject: Re: Farm Links GC, Childersburg, AL
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I'm betting your companians were not only better golfers, but better
people also.
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