I finally played the Flat Creek Estates course in Marble Falls. This course has been on my wish list for years. This course is only about seven miles from my house but is about an hour drive away on the other side of the lake. This is a John Houck Design course located at a vineyard. It plays across a scenic estate with mature trees, water hazards, and elevation change. There is a combination of wide open holes and tight tunnel shots. Good signage and well maintained. Houck likes to make hole #18 the most challenging and this course is no exception. You have to throw over water twice!
It was a good day to play, temperatures were in the upper 80's to low 90's, sunny skies and an intermittent 10mph breeze. Course conditions were excellent and I had the entire course to myself. I started off pretty good with some nice drives, close enough approach shots and solid putting. I had some difficulty on the back nine, although the holes I bogeyed were some of the least difficult ones on the course. I did lose a disc on #16 when my flick turned left instead of right and landed in the middle of a swamp of blooming cattails. I searched for about ten minutes in the muck, when I finally gave up I looked like I had been tarred and feathered. When I got to #18 and saw that I had to throw 175 feet over water into 10mph head wind, I decided that discretion was the better of valor and played the short tee.
No birdies for me today (again). One disc lost, my Tern. I did find a disc in the muck but decided it was not worth keeping.
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