Cypress Creek Country Club in Virginia Beach, VA.
(Not to be confused with Cypress Creek Golf Club in Smithfield, VA)
So, I played Cypress Creek in Va Beach for the first time last Friday. The greens were in really good shape considering the time of the year. The course was quite nice, with a variety of different types of holes/challenges. The front 9 has 3 par 3s, 3 par 4s and 3 par 5s, which is kind of different. I enjoyed that. Lamented a bit that all three par 3s were almost exactly the same length. It would be nice if one had been short, one mid-length, and one long, but they were all mid-length.
The back nine was considerably more scenic and had some really nice holes. 16 is a par 3 over water with a large bunker in front. With the leaves around the lake all colorful, it was spectacular. The 17th hole was a short, tight hole that doglegged at least 90 degrees about 210 yards out. If you can place a tee shot perfectly at about 210 yards, you were faced with a beautiful downhill shot of somewhere between 80 and 110 yards. The finishing hole is a par 5 that has a fairway that twists and turns, and you can end up with a tree in the way of your approach shot even if you placed your lay-up shot perfectly. This was the one hole on the course that I thought was essentially unfair. (Having said that, I birdied it!)
Anyway, a pretty nice layout with good greens and some challenging holes. I'll have to check it out again in the spring when the fairway grass is green.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust