I Can’t Believe I Turned Down Golf At Olympic Club
I was invited to play the Cliffs at Olympic Club today. It was probably the one day I couldn’t play this week. Terrible timing and luck on my part.
The Cliffs is a par 3 9 hole course in San Francisco. It is on the west side of Highway 35 on land that was once part of the Olympic Club Ocean course. A major storm a few years ago did some damage to the Ocean course. They made 8 par 3 holes out of the remaining land. (The 9th is on the east side of 35 adjacent to the 1st of Lake Course.)
The Cliffs is perhaps the best 9 hole par 3 course ever. It’s location can yield postcard perfect days and at other times with the fog rolling another monster comes out to play.
The 3rd hole is a ~135 down hill which for me has played anywhere from a sand wedge to a 6 iron. The wind the day I hit the 6 iron should have kept us off the course. Sometimes you can’t tell a golfer no!
Unfortunately yesterday was not one of them.
Self Adjusting Match Play with Junk
I have been playing a gambling match with my friends when I am just playing with one other person. It is a variant of Match Play with Junk. It is self adjusting match play with junk.
Before the self adjusting part let me lay out the rule of the basic game the way I play it. Match play is fairly straight forward. Each hole is worth one point no carry over. Junk is an extra point for greenies (on in regulation with a 2 putt or better validation), sandies (in a bunker end hole with a par or better), birdies (double the holes value), and eagles (quadruple the holes value.)
The self adjusting part of the game is to setup and autopress when 3 down. The press adds a point to the hole’s value, but not the junk. When a player presses he receives an additional 2 stokes.
When I play this game I will give or take any amount of strokes my opponent fells is correct.
Thoughts?
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