Quick post before I hit the road this morning from Black Mesa. I’m heading up to Taos, New Mexico to play Taos Country Club and tour around the town of Taos.
Stay tuned for pictures of the course, comments and the like from the town of Taos later today.
Greetings from the small town of Española, New Mexico. I’m staying in the Santa Claran Hotel, just a few minutes from Black Mesa Golf Club.
Today was mostly a travel day, but I managed to squeeze 18 holes in on one of my favorite courses in the world. I made a new friend, John Ehle, a writer from Wisconsin. We blazed through the course and had a fantastic time. It is very fun to take someone around the course who has not seen it before. I sort of rediscover each hole myself.
I was happy with how I played the course today. After getting up at 4 a.m. and flying to Albuquerque, then driving nearly 100 miles to the course I can’t complain. The start was shaky, bogey-double. I sucked it up and made 11 straight pars from hole #5 to hole #16. Played my best ever on the par-3’s, even par. Hole #8 is a BUGGER, playing at 239 yards. Solid 3-wood to 10 feet.
Children have Disney. I have Black Mesa Golf Club in La Mesilla, New Mexico.
Black Mesa Golf Club - Click for more images
This is an auto post I’m happily writing to publish while I’m on my flight from HOG World Headquarters to my remote office for the week, Black Mesa. I’ll be playing the course, seeing my good friends on the Black Mesa staff, eating the best breakfast burritos in the world and experiencing Taos New Mexico and Taos Country Club.
Stay tuned for live posts as well as many live Facebook and Twitter updates this week.
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Me and my 112 hole Hex Black after 100 holes...
Back on May 4, 2012 I posted my review of the Callaway Hex Black golf ball. At that time I’d played ONE Hex Black 76.5 holes. I posted a photo of the condition of the ball after 51 holes then, and below you’ll find a photo below of the Hex Black after 100 holes.
Today I brought in that trusty Hex Black to a “hit and giggle” tournament. It was a scramble and I was the anchor. The course was South Mountain, a very big and tough course with about a billion places to lose a golf ball. The pressure was on as I came into the day having played the special Hex Black some 96.5 holes. I kept it in play nicely from hole 15 (our starting hole in the shotgun) to hole 18. I shot the photo above right after hole 18, which was the 100th hole I’d played with the ball.
The winds kicked up quite a bit and finally after the 16th hole of the day, I knocked the ball into a set of trees and bushes. I gave it a good hard search, but sadly called off the search. I’d played my last hole with that seemingly “unloseable” Hex Black, half way through the 113th hole.
Callaway Hex Black after 100 holes! Click to zoom
I completed 112 holes with the same golf ball, a feat I’ll probably never duplicate again. At the point I lost it, the ball was trashed but still playable. I would have retired it to the shag bag many dozens of holes earlier had I not had this crazy string going.
It was fun to see how far I could go with one golf ball and how the Hex would last. Kudos to Callaway on the durability of the ball.
What’s the most holes you’ve gotten out of one ball? My record is now 112!
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