[Dan40]

I played a course in Bagio in the Philippines. Bagio is a mountain course. One hole, par 4, you address your ball and look to your target. There is an actual target at the top of the hill. When you are looking at the target, you are looking UP at about a 45 degree angle. MAYBE MORE! The hillside has 3 ledges built into it and a rope pull, ski lift kind of thing along the side of the "fairway" to help you up the slope. As you look down at your ball something distracts you at the edge of you vision, OH! its just an airplane flying through the valley, WAY BELOW YOU! Behind the tee the land falls off fairly steeply too, not as steep as the "fairway," but far from flat. You need the distance of a 4 iron to get over the top and the loft of a 6 or 7 to get up fast enough to keep from hitting into the hill. But they won't make the top. If you don't get over the top, the ball rolls down the hill, goes out of sight on the ledge, reappears flying over the edge of that ledge, disappears on the next ledge, flies off there, same scene, next ledge. Then rolls down the rest of the hill, PAST the tee and on down the mountain. Your second shot might be from 100 hundred yards behind and below the TEE. That course requires much beer to play.

Dan