| Title: | Welcome to the Golf Notes Conference! |
| Notice: | FOR SALE notes in Note 69 please! Intros in note 863 or 61. |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Tue Feb 15 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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A great new course on Cape Cod is Willowbend in Cotuit. It is private
in the summer, but open to the public right now. It has been described
in the Boston Globe as one of the most exciting new golf layouts in
Massachusetts in a long time.
Cost in the summer is $60, but you can play it now for $20 if you walk
it and carry a bag. Its great fun hitting over working cranberry bogs,
lots of grass bunkers (some really deep ones), and plenty of ponds and
traps. It really is a challenging par 71, great shape, and a lot of
fun.
If interested, you will need a tee time for weekends and can get one by
calling (508) 477-8888 .
Directions: Go over the Sagamore Bridge onto Route 6, take Exit 2 onto
Route 130 South to Route 28 (about 9 miles). Take a right
on 28, go about a mile. Take a left on Orchard to the end,
and left onto Quinnaquessant. Willowbend is 1/4 mile on the
left.
If anyone plays it, it would be nice to hear what you thought of it
since it is quite a bit different than a lot of the courses in the
Boston area.
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| 1154.1 | Anyone care to try it out this weekend? | MR4DEC::TDAVIS | Fri Mar 01 1991 16:26 | 5 | |
Anyone interested in braving a few showers to play there tomorrow? I'm looking for a game and I figure the cape will be less soggy than the courses around Boston--if they're open at all. So, if you're hankerin' to break the ice, so to speak, log in here. | |||||
| 1154.2 | I'm going there Friday! | SOFBAS::SULLIVAN | Wed Mar 20 1991 18:46 | 8 | |
Anyone got a course description or yardages?
There were some nice descriptions of Crumpin' Fox and Chicopee in
these notes, can anyone do one for willow/
- Dave
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| 1154.3 | I'm going there next Friday!! | USMFG::CBRADSHAW | Thu Mar 21 1991 17:28 | 4 | |
I'd be interested in some more info on Willowbend also. Myself
and 11 other fine gentlemen are playing there next Friday, the 29th.
Chuck
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| 1154.4 | Did you manage to get tee times already? | ESCROW::ROSCOE | Fri Mar 22 1991 14:53 | 0 | |
| 1154.5 | Have to call a week in advance | USMFG::CBRADSHAW | Fri Mar 22 1991 15:42 | 3 | |
Yea, I did for next Friday the 29th.
Chuck
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| 1154.6 | Had a great day at willowbend | ESCROW::ROSCOE | Wed Mar 27 1991 22:13 | 49 | |
I just finished playing Willowbend today with Bob Mook. The weather
was not all that great, temp in the 40's, 20 knot wind, slight drizzle
on the back nine but we had a GREAT time!
We played from the blues, they are six hundred yards longer than the
whites and boy what a diff that makes. The course has a great layout
and we both think that the back nine from the blues is one of the
hardest nines we have ever played.
Only one green was in rough shape, overall they putted fairly true.
In fact I managed to drain two forty footers on the back. That took
the sting out of a few double bogeys.
If you don't like to walk get a cart because you need to be part billy
goat on the back nine if you walk, we did. Between the water, traps,
bogs and other obstacles the course presents a very good test of golf.
In fact for $20 playing on a course of this quality is a bargin.
On April 1st the price will be $30, still a bargin.
Below is a listing of the holes: Yardage is from the blue tees.
1. par 5, 526 yards, #10 hdcp
2. par 3, 197 yards, #14 hdcp
3. par 4, 360 yards, #12 hdcp
4. par 4, 380 yards, #8 hdcp
5. par 3, 149 yards, #18 hdcp
6. par 4, 430 yards, #4 hdcp
7. par 3, 154 yards, #16 hdcp
8. par 5, 546 yards, #6 hdcp
9. par 4, 437 yards, #2 hdcp
front, par 35, 3179 yards
10. par 3, 200 yards, #9 hdcp
11. par 4, 417 yards, #5 hdcp
12. par 4, 435 yards, #3 hdcp
13. par 5, 529 yards, #7 hdcp
14. par 3, 198 yards, #17 hdcp
15. par 5, 526 yards, #13 hdcp
16. par 3, 188 yards, #15 hdcp
17. par 4, 479 yards, #1 hdcp
18. par 5, 486 yards, #11 hdcp
back, par 36, 3458 yards
total, par 71, 6637 yards
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| 1154.7 | Rating ?? | CTHQ2::OBRIEN | ok rabbit where's Rocky | Mon Apr 01 1991 17:27 | 3 |
Anybody know the rating / slope at Willowbend ??
Tim
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| 1154.8 | Not on the card | ESCROW::ROSCOE | Tue Apr 02 1991 22:33 | 2 | |
None of that info was on the scorecard, it contained the bare minimum.
I guess that is what happens when you go bankrupt!
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| 1154.9 | Price.? | SOFBAS::SULLIVAN | Wed May 01 1991 12:56 | 4 | |
anybody know what the rate is now?
is it still $20?
_ Dave
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| 1154.10 | it was $30 on 4-8 | BUSY::PEASLEE | Tue May 07 1991 16:10 | 5 | |
I played there on 4-8 and the fee was $30 plus a cart. I believe the
$10 increase had occurred on 4-1. I don't remember if the cart was
required but I used one and was glad of it.
gp
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| 1154.11 | HPSRAD::RHUFF | Fri Feb 21 1992 16:25 | 6 | ||
Is this course now private or is it still public?
Thanks,
Rodney
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| 1154.12 | HPSRAD::RHUFF | Tue Feb 25 1992 12:23 | 4 | ||
Willowbend is now strictly private all year.
Rodney
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