This course is right near Lake Estes, as you’re coming into town from the Big Thompson Canyon. There are two courses here, the Mountain and the Meadows courses.
You can play both courses for $12.00, or one course for $7.00. But, look at this, non-playing golf guests are $1.00, and toddlers with plastic putters are $2.00.
WHAT?!?!? Who ARE these non-playing golf guests???? If they’re not toddlers, who are they????
And, like a lot of courses in tourist areas, you can pay for two courses, but play them on two different days.
They had a practice green - astro-turf. OK quality. They also had water falls.
And they’re not BLUE!!! That looks lovely!!
We played the Meadows course. The fairways all had brick sides, but they weren’t particularly bouncy. The fairways were really lumpy - they were long and hilly. Dad liked how they put this fake rock here to house the light fixture.
I always like when they have fake rocks that have speakers. That just makes me laugh. Yep, this looks like a lot of long and lumpy holes.
Mom liked the score-card holders. She also thought it was really interesting how, even the sidewalks were lumpy at this course! They had speed bumps on all the sidewalks! It was like they couldn’t figure out how to make the greens lumpy without making the sidewalk lumpy too.
Weird.
This course had a lot of signs telling you what not to do. This is why we took whatever liberties we could think of.
In this course, the variation between holes is just the variation in lumps!
Look at the lovely scenery!!!
This hole had a gap, like some we’d seen. But you could also just putt around the gap, which I found odd.
I think it looks like a sleeping face!!!
Look!! Aaron is getting really good at capturing images of balls in mid-air!!!
Man, that is a really skinny fairway!!! (Barb just told me that this is a hole where you could actually go out into the river and get washed back onto the green. Aaron and Paul got holes-in-ones on this hole by putting into the water.)
This isn’t really sand. It’s just a textured rubber mat.
This is the first hole that I think was meant to look like something. It’s easier to see on the drawing of the hole - it looks like a sea-monster!!
WAY cool!!!
I think this was supposed to look like a guy who had just had brain surgery.
WHOA!!! Maybe it’s a guy wearing a yarmulke!!!
Here’s a close-up of the lumpy sidewalk.
Those black things are, like, non-slip strips for the bath-tubs of the elderly!
Dad has a weird putting style - I told him he was choking up too much, but he liked his style.
This was the only multi-tiered hole on the course.
OOoooooh!!! Look at the cool cave!!!!! With train tracks!!!
Dad was amazed that there was no “keep off the tracks” sign, so he stepped on them!
This was the ball-return hole. The elevated hole gives you a hole-in-one on your score card and a free game, but if you went in one of the other holes you got a 2. You started by putting through the logs.
Par: 40
Aaron: 42
Barb: 47
Paul: 50
Difficulty (1-6 putts, 6 putts being the most difficult): 2.5 putts
Rating (1-10 balls, 10 being the most wondrous): 8 balls. It was a really interesting course - I think it would be hard for little kids on account of all the really long and lumpy holes.
Coming soon: Lilliputt Golf in Grand Lake, Colorado
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