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Greetings!
This past weekend 54 NFJG TOUR Players headed north to the Island of Amelia to take on the challenges of the Oak Marsh Course at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation. The ride up was as pleasant as I remembered with beautiful morning skies and a nice ocean view as we navigated the A1A roadway. Travel time was only 38 minutes pulling the trailer from Kernan and Hodges Blvd area.
Oak Marsh was in top shape and the views were as spectacular as previously described. Anyone that has ever played Oak Marsh knows that this is one of the tightest, toughest and most challenging courses we play all year. After scouting the golf course, revealing tough Sunday pin placements, it was predicted that the scores would be high even with all the talented players in the field. This course is not the "BOMB IT" and hope for a good lie type of course, but rather a course that is a shot-makers course and a course that demands strategy more than most courses around. Spray it one way or the other and you would find yourself out of position, in trouble and certainly taking more strokes on the scorecard then what you wanted. Throw a little wind and rain in the mix and mid 80's would be the average score of the day for our better players . Many thanks for those who made the trip, the event was another success story and learning experience for all. Although the scores may have been high, the competition was still as fierce within each division as always.
Conner Going of the Rising Tour 13-15 and Jason Duff of the Elite Tour 13-15 would have the low rounds of the day with 79 when Marissa Cardenas of the Girls 13-18 Division was coming down the 18th fairway threatening to take the best round of the day away from both boys, but........
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