Grove City Golf Club

[PithyDoctorG]

Grove City Golf Club, part of theclv24 's OG design series, is inspired by Garden City Golf Club, located on Long Island. Though not a regular host to professional golf's elite, Garden City has long been a mainstay of Golf Digest's Top 100 Courses in America. The key elements of the real course that were incorporated were the open, relatively flat plot and the deep bunkers (and a few bunkers that are quite the opposite!).

The course is not long at 6844 yards from the tips (par 70), and the greens contain few yellow slopes and essentially no red slopes, and both par 5s are under 550 yards). However, the greens are very firm (0.9 on the firmness scale) and quite fast (181) and most of the pins are on regions of the green with a fair amount of slope--placing your ball below the hole is paramount to scoring well. Your putting will be tested if you play under the default conditions! For a more "casual" experience I would recommend setting the green speed to FAST and the green firmness to FIRM or MODERATE.

[mayday_golf83]

Well, I guess I know what I'll be doing later this evening. Looks great, Dan!

[jacobkessler]

I know it’s based on a different area of the country, but man that really reminds me of the scenery in Grove City of Ohio... looks great, on my list to play!

[Energ1ser]

Another quality course Dan. At 6800yds I thought it would be an easy round, but it really wasn't.
I've come to expect that I need to play angles on your courses and this one was no exception. If you're not paying attention to it you'll find yourself hitting to a bunch of tucked pins with a very deep bunker guarding them, and I like that.
Great job!

PS: how are you supposed to play the par 3 13th to pin 1, land it between the two inverted bunkers and use the fairway contours to feed it in, or is their some other trick to it?

[PithyDoctorG]

Nov 2, 2018 23:16:52 GMT -5 Energ1ser said:

Another quality course Dan. At 6800yds I thought it would be an easy round, but it really wasn't.
I've come to expect that I need to play angles on your courses and this one was no exception. If you're not paying attention to it you'll find yourself hitting to a bunch of tucked pins with a very deep bunker guarding them, and I like that.
Great job!

PS: how are you supposed to play the par 3 13th to pin 1, land it between the two inverted bunkers and use the fairway contours to feed it in, or is their some other trick to it?

Thanks for the comments, Jason. As for 13, pin 1; it's extremely tough to get at (perhaps a little too tough), but you have the right idea. The ideal play is a 5 hybrid (carries 211) played just inside the left inverted bunker. If you pull it you catch the slope and go long, which is a tough up and down, and if you push it you just funnel to the middle of the green. But whenever I aim there and get perfect/perfect, I usually end up within 10 feet. 3 iron seems to come in too hot. It might work if you fully loft it, but that's a huge risk. A fast/fast 4 iron seems to get you the right distance but, again, tough to pull off.

[hmammoth]

Very enjoyable course, despite it short length, it brings its own set of challenges. I just wanted to share when playing a skins match there a couple of nights ago.

I Still went on to take all their money though so it’s all good.

[theclv24]

I said I would finish this showcase before Christmas, and dog gone it I did! theoriginalgolfer.com/2018/12/05/og-showcase-grove-city/

A great addition to the TGC library!

[PithyDoctorG]

Thanks for the write-up, Craig! Some of your pictures capture the course from angles I never would have thought of.

[rjwils30]

Next on my list to play! Garden City is a very cool course