King's North at The National is a place to play. In good shape, beautiful layout and flowers everywhere. Plenty of water and bunkers. I was advised that they had moved the tee boxes forward. The ladies backward tees are 5662 long. Checking the tee boxes yardage though, I teed of from where they put the men's regular tees (as said, they had been moved forward). A 45 and 48 added up to my 93 today with 37 putts (and no GPS). Scored 2 snowmen today also.
One on the much talked about par 5 hole 6 "The Gambler": go around on the safe right side or play to the island fairway on the left and try to reach the green in two. To carry to the island from my tees, I needed 137 yards. The island looked quite big, so I chose driver. But that was too much, my ball rolled of somewhere at the end on the right side. My next shot I hit with a 5 iron, but caught it fat and landed in the water short of the green. Ok, back to safety on the right side then and a pitch and chip to the green and one putt... Very cool hole. Certainly one of the most interesting ones I have ever played.
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