Had an awesome time. I was going to ask how you played it so frequently but I guess they have public nights occasionally, or do you know someone? I don't really regret not playing the south course. With our foursome it would have been terrible. We took five hours on the north course...I shot 100, another guy shot an 80, we are frequent golfers who understand pace of play and etiquette and whatnot (even though I'm not the best golfer)...the other two guys picked their balls up every other hole and shot in the 120's with the mercy rule.
Woke up at 4:45 for the 7:35 start. Got there, grabbed a banana and granola bar, waited for practice facility to open. Hit some on the range and chipping green.
I could talk about it for hours...should have shot in the low 90's since I flubbed many pitches (like, taking three shots to get on the green from 50 yards out flubbing). 16, 17, and 18 were definitely great closing holes. Parred 16 with a crummy drive (short of bunkers on right), excellent four iron, and stuck a 9 iron to about 12 feet (probably my best back-to-back shots of the day - the 9 iron was all OVER the hole the whole way). In the water on 17, I SO wanted to hit a good shot there but ended up about five feet short. 18 was oddly comforting because of my slice. Crushed my driver through the fairway (was hoping for more slice), 5 iron from about 205 from the rough barely caught water on the right. (the good golfer in our group stuck a 5 wood from ~230 and left his eagle putt from 60 feet about two foot short - hell of a putt). That other par three that's surrounded by water front and rightish, pin was on the left and I landed on the green with a ~60 foot putt I had to give about 10 feet of break to...I was proud to two putt it!
It was one of those days where I would follow up a fantastic drive with a crummy approach, or vice versa. And the type of day where I absolutely nailed really tough drives (like on 14, I carried the fairway bunkers) but did shitty on the wider-open ones (like the par five (i think it was a five) with the transmission lines on the right; definitely went OB off the tee). Never really chained good shots together (like on 14 where I ended with a triple bogey after that perfect drive). I put pretty solid, only a couple three puts, sank a couple tricky ten footers. Greens at Turkeyfoot prepared me well for that.
Just the kind of experience where I can remember each and every hole vividly despite playing it only once. Probably because we were waiting so much on the other two in our group.