I've looked everywhere on this site, but i can't find any information on Outaouais in rockland. Can any body give me reviews about this golf course? Thanks
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I've looked everywhere on this site, but i can't find any information on Outaouais in rockland. Can any body give me reviews about this golf course? Thanks
I can only say that it's much like the Nation.. but longer. #18 is probably one of the best finishing holes in the area. Everyone on the deck can watch you mess up that second shot... I've been there, and shot a 10 in the City & District..... :bigcheek
Was a member there for 17 years and if I lived closer, I would still be there. The 4' pine trees that were planted there when I was a kid are now enormous and frame every hole.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shark_Golfer
Outaouais is a mature, challenging golf course that will require you to hit every club in the bag. Every hole is unique and most holes have been improved over the years. They have added a new third nine(bulldozed the other hard hat nine) that opened last year which from a quick trip around it in late August, is as good or better than the existing 18.
What I like about Outaouais is that, except for #9 and #18, it is a driver's golf course, that is, where length off the tee is advantageous, but there is also ample width to the fairways.
It is one of the better courses around, and frankly, because it is where I learned to play golf and made a number of friends there, I get very excited when I go back to play my former golfing home.
Play it if you can. You will enjoy it.
No one else has played here, i thought it was a popular course. Please, if you have played or heard anythign about it, could u write some feedback? thanks
allears was"t it a priate course before and the only way you could play was with a member or a tournament???
is it a green fee course now??
played it in a couple of tourneys and it was a nice course with some interesting holes
#18 comes to mind and a par 3 where you were way up on an elevated tee..
Great track to play if you have the chance. :bigcheek
I have played it many times and it definately a must play course in this area. Old course with lots of mature trees for sure. I know they were semi private at one time.
Bang on BC MISTQuote:
What I like about Outaouais is that, except for #9 and #18, it is a driver's golf course, that is, where length off the tee is advantageous, but there is also ample width to the fairways.
Finishing hole is picture perfect for those who love a treat to end the day. Everyone who plays that hole will be bet on if they will or wont make the green. You can actually see the money changing hands if you look closely. :lol2
Story that goes with this hole? Definately................
Years ago while playing the 18th hole my buddy (hadcp of 4) topped his tee shot from the back tees and landed on the ladies tees, then pulled a 4wood out and sailed over the tight corner of trees and landed on the green, no one saw it comming until it rolled to 15 feet of the flag. :-)
On the other side of that coin, my mother was with us and after trying to get over the water for her second shot, put 3 balls inthe water and was ready to just walk up and drop one on the green when I pointed out all the people on the deck waiting for her to put it on. She pulled out her 3 wood and it landed on the dance floor to a thunder of applauds. What a great day. :-)
Outaouais never was, nor is now, a private club, however, with a very large playing membership, non-members have difficulty getting times. It remains a semi-private club.Quote:
Originally Posted by gumby
At the outset, under the direction of the designer, builder, dreamer, Gerard Chamberlain, only French Canadians were allowed to buy the $100 shares, even though the majority of the members at that time were English Canadian. I am not sure if this discriminatory practice is in effect to this day, but not likely.
Quick story: Outaouais-#18-first Saturday in December, one year, long ago, I dribbled a 2 iron along the frozen ground towards the pond. After walking around the corner I noticed that my ball was on the ice being blown by the wind towards the left side of the bank as you face the green. I walked up the path, across the green, down the embankment and onto the ice, with a wedge in my hand. Steadying myself by placing the club on the ice, as the ball was blown close to me I hit it. It ran up the bank and hit the stick, literally a stick, which had been left in the hole, and fell in.
For you rules aficianadoes, what was my score?
Now I would guess a 6. One off the tee, 2 stokes for putting your wedge on the ice (testing ground conditions), 2 strokes for hiting a ball in motion and one for hitting in the hole? :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by BC MIST
I think 4. As Steve says but no penalty for hitting the ball in motion. I don't think there is a penalty for hitting a moving ball in (on??) a water hazard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Karam
I once thought the score would have been a 6, but at that time I thought that there was a penalty for hitting a moving ball in/on a hazard. So 4 should be the score with a 2 shot penalty for grounding a club in/on a hazard.Quote:
Originally Posted by powerlefty
Perhaps I should have been penalized/committed for being on the golf course when it was -10*C :)
So this means you can hit a moving ball in a hazard but you cant hit a moving ball out of a hazard? :confused
I think so. I recall a PGA event a few years ago where someone (Crenshaw I think) hit their ball into a concrete-lined water hazard in Texas and the ball kept moving downstream toward the hole. The announcers were speculating that he could hit the ball while it was moving but if he dropped it, he would have to move back about 50-60 yards to where it entered the hazard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Karam
If your ball is partly submerged in a lake/hazard and the waves cause the ball to jiggle a little, then there is no penalty if you hit it nand no penalty if the ball moves location.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Karam
I believe that the ball rolling down the concrete waterway was at The Colonial in Fort Worth.
I've seen that hole and understand that .............. but your ball is on top of the water (ice) and being moved by the wind. What happens if this was on a bridge to an island green. Your ball is still in the hazrad but is has not come to rest and you hit it anyway. No penalty?Quote:
Originally Posted by BC MIST
Was just checking in the rule book and under Rule 14-6 it says
"When a ball moving in water in a water hazard, the play may, without penalty, make a stroke, but he must not delay making his stroke in order to allow the wind or current to improve the position of the ball. A ball moving in water in a water hazard may be lifted if the player elects to invoke Rule 26."
On top of the water, ice, I'm not sure if this will apply or not. Maybe a good one for Gary. (although he'll surely say read the rule book, which I've already done) ;)
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Originally Posted by Steve Karam
I can't say i know what the score actually is, but as far as i'm concerned, that definitely deserves a 2.
Hi;
They have a web site
http://www.golf-outaouais.ca/english/
It gives some basic info.
When I started to play golf about 4 or 5 years ago, I used to play the 9 hole course all the time. It was narrow and fairways ran besides each other, so you had to stay alert.(sometimes from me! :-)
It was fun and I got to play the full 18 once in a while. Lots of room to hit your drives and the greens are in really good shape, maybe a little fast for a guy at my level. I got to play the new 9, 3 or 4 times last year and I loved it! They have done a great job with the new 9, so much so that I tried to get the wife to buy me a membership this year, but its just too much for me right now.
Now it just may be me, but the members tend to be wankers. Is it a French/Anglais thing, I don't know. I watched members berate people on the old 9 hole course, and if you see an old french guy with grey hair on the members side, you know he will point out what you are doing wrong. (you are always doing something wrong)
Not to say that there arent some nice folks there but a high ratio of wankers to nice guys.
Anyway a great course, some of the holes are just spectacular. They have spring and fall rates that are a pretty good deal. If they came on board with Dan I would be there a lot.
Hope this helps, and I hope I didnt offend some old grey haired members. :nono
Rusty
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Originally Posted by Shark_Golfer
It's funny, but just by coincidence I happened to be speaking with someone who is anglophone and who joined last year and he said he had heard that the english/frenchQuote:
Originally Posted by Rusty
"thing" was a problem but his experience was just the opposite. He found there were just as many english as french memebers and he had no problems with either.
Thats good to hear, I still hope to join someday.
It must be just the age thing, I swear that they based the movie Grumpy Old men after visiting the course! Although I joined up on the course with a 14 year old kid last year and after he shot a 80 and complained that his putting was off - Then I was a grumpy old man. :-)
Rusty
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Originally Posted by eye2's