Well, another weekend has passed and another course goes under our belts.  As you know by now, we were in the city that never sleeps this week.  We played 3 rounds of 24 holes at the beautiful Sunset Park which consisted of 2 or 3 long holes that required 2 shots to get to the basket (unless you got off a really good drive).  The baskets we played on seemed to vary a lot from hole to hole, which made the tournament seem pretty unique.  

As for the other holes, there were only 2 holes which required a righty anhyzer shot.  The course did bring a pretty good bit of O.B. into play that did wreak havoc on a lot of players.  Going back now to the other 20 holes, they ranged anywhere from 280 to 370 feet and were fairly wide open, which played well for a lot of righty hyzers and straight shots.  I personally enjoyed playing Sunset Park because

• It was very fair
• All concrete tees
• O.B. made for a more challenging course than others like it
• Beautiful park
• T.D.'s did a great job
• Mountain scenery surrounding the whole area with a very picturesque skyline that had blending/fading color patterns ranging from all shades of blue to violet and pink, just like a painting.  Can you picture that?

Not affecting the play of the course a whole lot, but needing to be mentioned, were the gopher mounds everywhere which, if hit with plastic, were like little sand traps.

Oh yeah, one of the holes, #21, had 5 palm trees guarding the basket and had huge leaves that were shaped and acted like hands.

[The rest of this article, the non-course parts, can be read in the Flying Eye Pro Tour 2001 section]

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