Wisconsin Life

club smacking ball

Right down the middle. Hang on Jack, hang on.

clubs smacking balls

Oh, nice. Oh, right down the pike. Very nice. You're on. Little bit short. The Yellow Lake Golf Course will never host the U.S. Open

clinkl

or any other prestigious tournament. Right down the middle. Well, we'll try a little 8-iron pitch and run.

thud

Oh, you might have it. Whoa, whoa. Get on, get on. All right. But this humble course does offer a unique challenge for even the best golfers. Ohhhh, soft sand there. The greens are green in name only. Looka there. Ohhh. Well anybody's used to playing on a regular golf course, it changes your whole game 'cause your putting, everything changes. There's a hard pan underneath the sand, so sometimes it blows off it a little bit and you'll have kind of a hard pan. and then there'll be some thicker sand, which can slow your ball down and just stop it right there. Most golfers are used to raking the sand trap, not dragging the sand green. That way it's smooth for the next people that are coming behind you. For a real par? - For a real par. Chuck Anderson says when the course was built in 1928, sand greens were standard. Back in 1928, you didn't have a whole lot of irrigation. Over time, most courses installed sprinklers and converted to grass. That was Chuck's plan when he bought the course in 1988. We're going to change those into grass greens as fast as we can.

plink

There it is. Look at that. And then we got up here and found that everybody was having such a good time... Ooooh, hit that rock and jumped up....and the maintenance was so low, Looka there....we said, "Let's promote the sand greens and see what happens." C'mon Jack. John O'Fallon lived next to the course for more than three decades. I don't think I-- I don't remember ever scoring good.

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But I have a lot of fun afterwards.

guffaws

This is why it's a friendly place. If you get thirsty out here, they bring you out one when they see ya. John and Chuck have golfed a lot of rounds and learned not to take it too seriously. There it is! It's the best shot I've had since I was born. This course is for fun. It's a recreational course. If you're a good golfer, you're going to be very frustrated out here. Oh, don't get no better. That's it. Look here. Right over the hole.

Group

Ooohhhh! None of us really worry too much about score, just out to have a good time, you know.

grunts, smacks ball

Group

There. Give it a little extra boost. It's the way golf was meant to play for us duffers. Because we're never going to be on the pro circuit anyway.

clink

Group

So we might as well have fun. Over the hill to grandma's house. There's always tomorrow neighbor. Yup. Always tomorrow.