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Morgan Wade: Hardwood Floor

I would highly recommend Valentin Imperial Riviera Maya as well. Food and drinks were very good. We did a swim up room as well. 6 days/nights was around $5200 flights included.

Large spread-out property, shows every night after dinner, and live music in the courtyard by the restaurants and lobby area each night after the show. We did an excursion to Xplor park at Xcaret one day while there

We chose Valentin based on friends recommendation, they had been multiple times

Played the first 2 rounds and missed the cut. Some seriously good golf going on out there. Greens rolling great.

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Also lowest 36 hole led by three shots

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I played with Alan Morgan (LSU golfer) the first 2 rounds in the 2001 LA Amateur at Bayou Desiard. I believe he was -12 after the 2nd round. Went on to finish at -21 and won by 13

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Jimmy Ott should be paying us

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This! I feel bad because I like Hanagriff but as soon as Ott starts talking I have to change the station

Burnt Pine
Raven
Links
Baytown

Burnt Pine and Raven are great

Links was in good shape last October when we played

Baytown greens have been atrocious the last 2 falls.

We go to Sandestin every October

Our regular 4some has a standing rule that if any of us make a hole in one the other 3 pay him $1 for every yard of the shot. The person who made the hole in one then has to pay for a steak dinner. Has to be with the 4 of us playing together

My nephew is one of the 4 and he was playing with some other friends last weekend and made his first one from 175 yds

Agree on Burnt Pine but we are not staying on property.

Raven and Regatta are around $160, Kelly wants like $220

May be able to get a deal closer to $100 at Emerald. Probably 2/3 of the group are less that 4 times a year golfers, so will probably try to stay around $125 wherever we can get a group rate

Thanks

1. Burnt Pine (if you can get on, it’s private)
2. Regatta Bay
3. Raven at Sandestin
4. Kelly plantation
5. Indian Bayou

Would be my personal top 5

Agree with this although I would put Windswept ahead of Indian Bayou. Grented its a little bit of a drive from Destin. Burnt Pine and Raven are fantastic and I love Regatta and Kelly (even though you may pay $160 to play there. Location, location, locations

+1 hdcp here. My 5 iron goes 195. replaced 4I with a 4H that carries 210 mainly for trajectory.

3H - 225
3W - 245

For reference.

5W and 7W are good options, really just a matter of what works for you. Try a few and get fitted

Course was great as always. Made the cut so $250 for 4 rounds and a $100 golf shirt is the best golf deal in Louisiana all year.

Course was very playable, but you had to hit fairways (I'd say hitting the rough off the tee was about a .75 shot penalty). Very tough to control the ball from rough, lot of knuckle balls.

Playing the native areas as lateral was a good call. Guy with me first 2 days hit it in there 5-6 times.

Greens are perfect but so difficult to get a putt you can be aggressive with. Lot of nerve wracking 3-5 footers for par.

Guessing the course played around 6700-6800 yards. No 16 was no more than a wedge any day and still played tough.

As for some of the high scores there were certainly some people who shouldn't have been there, but if you are a 5-8 hdcp and not playing your best you could easily shoot 85-90. And a lot of guys never play on greens like these