"The Crossings" Grand Opening

Our new local course in Carlsbad (more info here) had it's grand opening today. I hauled the family over there to check it out. We went on a minor little tour of holes 1, 8, and 9 in golf carts - kids loved that. Hot air balloon exhibition was kind of a bust -- too windy.

Later in the day, I went back to walk more of the course. Walked the back 9 (minus #12) and then a few holes on the front 9.

It's looking like it's going to be a challenging course. While most of the fairways are pretty generous in width, they have some slopes towards canyons, and a few carries that will be tough.

Here are some pics of some of the holes.

Measure Hole Layout

Well I thought I would be going over to the new local course in a couple days to map it for iGolfGPS, so I looked up the official way to find the center of the green. How to measure a green.

They denied me access to the course (for now), since there are still a couple holes under construction. More here.