New Tee Box At Washtenaw Golf Club

One of the most interesting things about having a home course is watching it evolve over the years. In some cases, it is as simple as noticing that a particularly vexing tree branch has been removed. On the more complex side, it might be a new bunker or tee box.

Golf courses are a bit like people in their constant evolution and maturation (hopefully people mature). Washtenaw Golf Club is more than one hundred years old, but it is still a work in progress.

At some level, I think it is the case that if you are not changing, you are stagnating.

Recently, Washtenaw Golf Club has started the process of building a new tee box on the par three twelfth (pictured above).

The twelfth at Washtenaw already is a good hole. A downhill par 3, it measures 150 from the tips. The green is a bit of a volcano, rising above the fairway, and falling off on three sides; the back is just a couple of yards away from Paint Creek and a wilderness of cattails.

Thetee shot is straight, and although it is the number 18 handicap hole, I would argue it is no cakewalk.

As an aside, I think — and I am not alone in this — that Washtenaw Golf Club has as good a set of par threes as you will find in Michigan.

The new tee box adds ten yards and is to the left of the current tees.

Adding ten yards is perhaps not such a big deal, but the change in angle will complicate the equation. I will very interested to see how the course raters change the scores the next time the Golf Association of Michigan rates the course.

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