(03-19-2018, 10:26 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: All four of the courses I mentioned are cheap.   Hyde Park and Bent Creek are less than $30 at most times.   Julington Creek is the most expensive, at about $37 (?) I think.  They're all about the same as Royal St. Augustine.    We play them on weekdays only.   My group is all retired.   Courses almost everywhere are way too crowded on weekends.

My problem with RSA is lack of familiarity.   There's a lot of water you can't see from the tee.  I think I'd have to play it a few more times to get comfortable with it.  

I did like the people running Royal St. Augustine, in the pro shop and the bar.   They seem pretty nice.  

On #15, I was playing from the white tees.   We play forward tees mostly, because we suck and we don't want to make the game harder than it has to be.

I like to stay around 5500-5800 yards now, more than isn't fun anymore; I, too, will play only on weekdays, although you can get out on RSA late Sat or Sun. The RSA staff is very nice, Gary can be a little crusty- he's inside now but back when he was outside putting away carts he asked me one time why I had a garage clicker with me and I said, "because I have a garage on the 12th hole and I stash a few beers in there to take for the last few holes.

He began to lecture about how outside alcohol isn't allowed on the course, blah, blah, blah. Man did that fall on deaf ears.

Another time I walked onto the 12th hole from the garage with a putter (there was nobody on the course) and was putting 3-4 balls when a maintenance-type guy came up to me in a cart and asked me what I was doing and then informed me that basically I was trespassing. I sort of apologized or groveled in some manner, then asked him if he wanted a beer. His response, "You have beer?"

An hour later, we're still sitting in the golf cart talking about whatever, smoking cigars, and that six pack was just about gone.

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