Straight Down Fall Classic

Like Craig mentioned in his weekend release, we had the pleasure to play in the Straight Down Fall Classic this past weekend at San Luis Obispo Country Club. What a blast! Just a little background info: The Straight Down Fall Classic is a two man better ball pro-am event where the amatuers handicap are thrown out the window. That is right, even up, no strokes, play the back tees and every shot counts. The best part about the event is that the touring pros that represent straight down are also playing in the event. Including our local talent:

Jason Gore with his partner Kevin Marsh went on to tie for first place in a four hole playoff that was decided by darkness. Craig and I only finished a 2 shots behind them... Oh wait I missed a zero. I meant 20 shots. Yep those guys are good.

All the results and photos can be found at http://straightdown2.com/fall-classic/

As a result of last weekend I have now putted on some of the most difficult greens on the planet. San Luis Obispo CC is built on the side of a hill with greens that have some very severe slopes on them. In addition to the slope, the record breaking heat in the mid 90's caused the greens to become firm and VERY FAST. While I did not carry my trusty stimpmeter with me, I can assure you that if you were to find a spot on a green flat enough to take an accurate stimpmeter reading they would have been rolling in excess of 13'. Craig and I both had several times that we had putts inside of 20' and were very concerned about not three or four putting.

Be sure to check out the website for some pics of Craig, Freddy, Jason and the rest of the gang.