Colorado Day 3 Recap – Fossil Trace and Red Hawk Ridge
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Categories: Golf Courses • Life • Miscellaneous
Categories: Golf Courses • Life • Miscellaneous
Fossil Trace
Day three of the big Colorado trip with my golf blog buddy Jay Flemma found he and I and Eddie Peck (owner of Black Mesa GC in New Mexico) at Fossil Trace.
Fossil Trace GC is another Jim Engh designed course, located in Golden Colorado. Golden is a suburb of Denver. No, I didn’t run into Mr Coors.
Since Jay had been out with our buddies from Bowling For Soup singing Karaoke until the wee hours of the morning, he missed the tee time. So Eddie and I teed off without him.
Fossil Trace is a very neat course with 3 distinct and unique characteristics. The first relates to the course’s name. There are many fossils that were found on the course. Most of the fossils are either plant fossils or dinosaur footprints. Most of the footprints were from Triceratops which roamed the area millions of years prior.
The 2nd neat characteristic of the course is the terrain. There are lots of hills and elevation changes and the “routing” of the course winds up, down, in out of some very cool terrain features.
The 3rd neat feature is the remnants of the old mining operation. There are old tractors and even an old incinerator chimney that Jim Engh left right in the middle of #1 fairway.
Fossil Trace #1 Green with incinerator chimney in fairway
We had a great time at Fossil and Jay caught up with us on about the 5th or 6th hole. I didn’t post my best round ever, carding a 9 on the par 4 #10. #10 is a risk/reward and I failed miserably by taking the risk option and failing over and over.
2nd lowest round ever…
Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Categories: Hackers • Life • Miscellaneous
Categories: Hackers • Life • Miscellaneous
Today I shot a 70. Never shot 70 before ever. I’ve shot a 69 once, and 71 dozens of times. But for some reason the 70 hasn’t happened until today.
…And there was much rejoicing.
Fantasy golf: Bedford is on his way to winning a TaylorMade r7 425!
Bedford_golf has a fairly large lead in the Hooked On Golf Blog Fantasy Golf League. He’s won two weeks in a row now and should have enough Golf Dust and Swing Juice to last him a whole season. He’s well on his way to the grand prize, a TaylorMade r7 425 driver!
Everyone click through here to the sponsors below so they’ll see some traffic and want to sponsor our league next year!
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Prize breakdown:
Weekly prizes provided by Golf Dust and Swing Juice.
First place for each half of the season is a Nintendo Dual Screen with the True Swing Golf Game.
2nd place for each half of the season: The Hole of the 3rd Eye & Back Swings (books)
GRAND PRIZE: TaylorMade r7 425!!!
If you are a crappy putter here is something for you
Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, September 1st, 2006
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Equipment • Miscellaneous
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Equipment • Miscellaneous
Here’s this week’s candidate for the GolfBlogger ridiculous item of the week.
The Potty Putter
If you are a crappy putter this is for you.
Colorado Day 2 Recap – Pradera & Bowling For Soup
I’m so overwhelmed with material I’d like to enter about this trip that I don’t even know what to write right now. On to day two…
Day two of the big golf trip (aka Flemmapalooza) found us at Pradera. Pradera is a private golf club located in Parker Colorado. Parker is about 40 minutes south of Denver.
Pradera
At Pradera I met, and played golf with some new pals:
Jim Engh (and his 10 year old son): Jim Engh is a big time course designer. He designed Pradera, Red Hawk Ridge (where we’d gotten rained out the day before), Fossil Trace (slated for the next day’s play) and many other awesome courses. His courses have won numerous awards. I could type them all here but just go to his site and check them out.
Adam Clayman: A tall chap who loves golfing, golf course design and course architecture. He’s very educated and never short on conversation about golf, golf courses or many subjects non golf related.
Jim Hajek: Jim is the head PGA pro at Fossil Trace and a heck of a nice guy. On the first hole Jim hit a 3-wood to 5 feet from miles away, uphill. The shot was a towering high shot which had to clear Jim Engh’s “muscle bunkers” guarding the green. No problem. He made the putt for an eagle 3. “Hello Mr. Hajek. Nice to meet you. I just found out why you are a pro.”
Jay Flemma had matches set up between “The Rockers” and the “Course Architects.”
The rockers were to be myself, Jay, a cute girl named Shannon and the guys from Bowling For Soup. Unfortunately BFS’s tour bus didn’t make it in time and they had to go straight to their gig to set up.
The architects were to be Jim Engh, his son, Tim Hartnett(Jim’s assistant) and a pal named Josh.
You can read the details of this sand job on Jay’s blog, but to make a long story longer we got screwed by handicaps and lost the match big.
Though the rockers lost the match, we all had a great time playing Pradera.
Bowling for Soup
Adam, Eddie and I joined Jim Engh and family for dinner at the best Thai restaurant in Denver before heading to the Bowling for Soup concert.
Eddie and I were looking for a parking spot at the concert when we almost ran over a J-walker wearing a psychedelic shirt. I said “I’ll try not to run over the bum” and then it turned out to be Jay crossing the street talking to us on the cell phone! Oops.
The BFS show was awesome. These guys know how to put on a show and they really entertain the audience. They played many great songs like their big hit 1985 and finished off the night with an all star rendition of “I Wanna Be Sedated” where all the members of the opening acts jumped on stage with guitars in hand. Fun to see 15 guitar players on stage!
Guru (middle) hanging out with Bowling for Soup
After the gig we got to meet all the BFS guys and some of the die hards went out for Karaoke after. Eddy and I took off to get our rest so we could play well at Fossil Trace the next day.
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