The Club at Pine Forest: 8 '22

 Today, Bruce and I golfed 9 holes each at The Club at Pine Forest.

The course's four-star ranking places Pine Forest in the top 5% of all non-private courses in the United States and making Pine Forest the highest-rated non-resort course in the Charleston area. The golf course is a Par 72 layout designed by Bob Spence, who is the lead designer for Davis Love III.

The course's website describes the course as having extremely challenging championship tees (6,905 yards with a course rating of 73.9 and a slope of 138) to more manageable gold tees (5,782 yards with a course rating of 68.7 and a slope of 121). Meanwhile, the ladies' tees measure 4,990 yards with a course rating of 70.8 and a slope of 115.+ So of course, we didn't expect it to be an easy course to play.

What we hadn't expected when we booked our Tee -off time was that on the day we played, temperatures would hover near 95 F in the shade with the high humidity, bringing the heat index up to 105 F.. On top of that it hadn't rained for several days so the course was so dry we had a tough time driving a Tee into the ground and made controlling our speed on the greens a really hard thing to do.

It was a bit naive to think either one of us would play well under those conditions, so of course, neither of our scores was anything to write home about. I struggled to maintain the height and distance to get over all of the moguls on this links-style course. And Bruce had difficulty walking the steep slopes.

All in all, we did reasonably well but were still disappointed by

our own performances. Oh well, maybe we'll try the course again, but if we do, we're definitely holding off on that game until the late Fall when the temperatures are cooler and Bruce has had his vascular surgery