Taranwould in Newark N.Y.
Played 18 at Taranwould Golf Course with the EWGA travel league today. It’s a short course — 4350 yard, par 66 — but it doesn’t play particularly short, at least not to this admitted neophyte golfer.
One of the interesting things about the course is that several of the holes are replicas of holes at famous courses. I took my camera along so I could get pics.
Here’s number two, which is supposed to be a replica of the 12th hole at Augusta.
The men’s tee is actually further back than this.
We won’t talk about how many strokes this hole cost me. Remember, I just took a lesson 
Although in retrospect it was a nicer par three than one coming up later.
Here’s #4. This is a replica of the 13th hole at Pine Valley. It’s a 234-yard par four dogleg to the left that slopes down sharply to the right, so if you slice you make a lot more work for yourself. That’s the 150 yard marker there a little to the right of the center of the pic. You’d do okay to aim for that, or if you’re up to it, shoot over the waste bunker and give yourself a chip onto the green.
I bogeyed that hole. I was hitting my five iron off the tees and my short game was going really really well — in fact, I birdied number 7 (a par 3) and parred number 8 (a par four). I was on my way to cracking 50. Then came this hole, number 9.
This hole is, they say, a replica of the 7th hole at Pebble Beach, and it’s where my game took a sharp turn for the worse. I can’t blame my lesson, either — it’s only 89 yard downhill from the woman’s tee to the green. But unfortunately I hit the sand, and stupidly I tried to play it as if it were dry sand. It wasn’t — it was wet and packed down. So it took me several strokes to get out, and when I did . . . I skittered across the green and into ANOTHER trap behind it.
Oh well.
This picture I took just because it was so pretty. I’m pretty sure this is the 12th or 13th green, can’t remember exactly but the view was gorgeous. Notice too that the weather has changed — from dense clouds and occasional sprinkles we’ve gone to partly sunny. The greens got faster and I did a bad job of adjusting, found myself three-putting, which is one reason I began racking up some eights . . .
Number 14 here — which the course description calls “replica of Donald Ross 17th hold at Pinehurst #2.” It’s a par 3, 167 yards from the woman’s tees, 187 from the men’s.
Like a lot of the fairways on this course, it was narrow and unforgiving if you don’t manage to keep to the middle. Considering how badly I was playing by then, I was plenty happy to get out with a double bogey
Altogether a fun course, challenging to play, would definitely like to do it again sometime.