"Do they want a pint of my blood, too?" visiting golfer Shane Reynolds asked. Pete Dye was given a "collaboration" credit on Eagle Eye, but this is Lutzke's baby, and it screams out as an instance when the disciple wanted to one-up the master in hacker torture. That's how maddening things can get on this track with a 145 slope rating. Then, you get out on the golf course and realize an Eagle Eye first timer might need every one of those minutes. The 4 hours and 30 minutes urged pace of play seems a tad excessive when you first look at the suggested intervals on your scorecard. Eagle Eye is anything but a course you breeze through. You can be a good five or six holes in before you realize what a slog it's become, how much time you've spent on certain holes and how rapidly your supply of golf balls is evaporating. It's a brute that can sneak up on you, too. There are professional loan sharks who don't do as good a job of pummeling someone as Eagle Eye. If you're looking for a challenge, though, Eagle Eye will bring it and then some. This writer found the nearby Timber Ridge Golf Course to be a better play and a more enjoyable day. In fact, it's constantly repeated tagline - rated the fifth best new course in America in 2005 by Golf Digest - makes you wonder, more than anything, what a lame year 2005 must have been for new courses. Particularly on the par 3s, the best and most creative part of a golf course that sometimes gets too focused on bludgeoning golfers with distance.Įagle Eye is not a great golf course. Lutzke shows you just how much room he had to work with. Which makes what Pete Dye-disciple Chris Lutzke does next seem even more cruel.įor there, you are in this area only five minutes away from the hustle and bustle of Michigan State University's 40,000-plus student campus, where it suddenly feels like you have all this room, on a golf course that often appears to be more wide open than Seth Rogen's views on pot, and your golf balls are flying into tall, thick grass and splashing into ever-prevalent ponds. Back 9/Front 9 at Hawk Hollow Championship Golf Course.Middle 9/Back 9 at Hawk Hollow Golf Course.Front 9/Middle 9 at Hawk Hollow Golf Course.
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