Re -visit Sweetgrass

West Virginia and Michigan are both competing this weekend in the Island Resort Intercollegiate, so I decided to travel from golf blogger Northern Headquarters about the Mackinac Bridge to spend a few days on the Upper Peninsula watching university wave.

The tournament – weird organized by South Dakota State – is held in the Sage Run course in Island Resort and Casino. I say strange because the state of South Dakota is almost 800 miles from the resort. I am curious why they chose a place as far from home as a host.

When I arrived the day before the tournament, I was happy that I had the chance for a new round in Sweetgrass, the original golf course of Island Resort.

I played Sweetgrass ten years ago for the first time (and maybe once since then), and it is just as good as I remember. It is a prairie course: open and usually flat, with a scattering of ponds and swampy areas. Some may call it a left-style course, but because it is not on the water, I hear on that characterization.

Sweetgrass is flat in terms of height, but is not even. The fairways turn left and right and have many hills and depression. Many of my photos of the fairway were on small slopes (after they had been rolled by a preceding slope). I am usually irritated by a course where I cannot find a flat place, but Sweetgrass’ are usually subtle, making photos a little more difficult, but not punishable.

Corners are important in Sweetgrass. There are really no straight shots from tee to green. Holes are both doglegs; Pock marked with bunkers who make a golfer think about corners; Or are both.

In the design, Sweetgrass is the kind of of course that you can play every day and never be bored.

The circumstances were flawless and even at the end of the day the vegetables were still very fast. Fairways were hard and fast. I got a lot of role from my low -flying discs.

The man in the professional store told me that they were not allowing to walk, but I saw a lot of drawing along courteous paths and said “walk alone” or “no carts”. It is clearly set up to walk. Maybe it’s not a walk at the weekend.

I played until it was dark.