{"id":780,"date":"2011-04-06T00:39:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T00:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buffalogolfer.com\/wordpress\/?p=780"},"modified":"2011-04-06T00:40:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T00:40:06","slug":"elkdale-cc-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buffalogolfer.com\/wordpress\/elkdale-cc-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Elkdale CC Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">The Elkdale                   Country Club is a living catch-22; it deserves a wider                   reputation than it has, yet it might suffer for it.\u00a0 A                   tremendous course on Route 353 in Salamanca, less than twenty                   minutes from Ellicottville, Elkdale is a public club with the                   fastest, most difficult greens in western New York.<!--more--> We                   have played East Aurora, we have played Niagara Falls, and we                   have played Byrncliff.\u00a0 Only the putting surfaces at                   Cherry Hill are a match for Elkdale, and for an entirely                   different (grain) reason.\u00a0 Elkdale has the unique                   characteristic of being a mountain course in a foothill                   setting.\u00a0\u00a0 Elkdale does not brag of the enormous tee                   boxes of a Glen Oak-style course; in fact, it is necessary to                   invent a &#8220;<em>Tips<\/em>&#8221; teeing area, as only a white                   and red set of tees are marked.\u00a0 From the back, 10 of 12                   par four holes measure fewer than 400 yards, and three of four                   par three holes can be paced in fewer than 170 steps.\u00a0                   Only the back-to-back fifteenth and sixteenth holes (555 and                   220) can be described as back-breaking.\u00a0 Elkdale&#8217;s sense                   of the <em>Tips<\/em>, therefore, is not measured by an                   odometer.\u00a0 It is the constant vertical ebb and flow of                   the fairways, and the intellectual demand it places on club                   selection, that translates Elkdale&#8217;s <em>Tips<\/em> experience                   into comprehensible terms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">The lesson                   begins on the very first hole, where an uphill approach calls                   for one to two more clubs than yardage figures suggest.\u00a0                   The lay of the green, too, is a harbinger of subsequent                   targets.\u00a0 Laying flat to the golfer&#8217;s eye, there is no                   visual surface at which to aim, only the zenith of the                   flagstick.\u00a0 Rarely does the golfer find himself shooting                   flatly at the target; in most cases, he is either far above or                   far below the mark. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">The Elkdale                   experience is the antithesis of Glen Oak in two of three                   categories.\u00a0 Moving backward, it is the greens that                   present the greatest challenge at this southern tier                   course.\u00a0 Imagine the typical Glen Oak-style putting                   surface, then compress it 25 percent, so that its flat                   surfaces suddenly become humpy, curvy, and slopey.\u00a0                   Finally, just for kicks, stretch them out 5 percent, so that                   the apparent breaks are not so evident, to the point where                   they sometimes go down instead of up, left instead of right,                   out instead of in, driving the putter to the brink of                   madness.\u00a0 Did I mention that they are quick?\u00a0 How                   quick?\u00a0 When we played in a rain on Masters Saturday, we                   consistently hit putts past the hole, even when we lagged                   them.\u00a0 Imagine putting them on a hot summer&#8217;s day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">Elkdale would                   not be described as tree-lined, even though arboreal splendor                   is a characteristic of the course.\u00a0 The rough is higher                   than that found at Glen Oak, so full recovery shots to the                   green must be played with greater strength in order to be                   successful.\u00a0 The cant of the fairways, though, often                   spanks mis-hit shots into the nether regions of the course,                   lengthening and challenging the subsequent play. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">Elkdale is an                   experience to be enjoyed in a series of courses.\u00a0 Take                   the following plan:\u00a0 get up early, drive to                   Ellicottville, eat breakfast in the diner on the corner (the                   only place in Ellicottville that I can afford!); continue on                   to the course, play eighteen holes; repair to the clubhouse (a                   cross between a hunting lodge and a fraternity house, where                   everybody knows your name or welcomes you as if they did) for                   a libation and a big bite to eat; consider moving to an area                   with less commotion.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elkdale Country Club is a living catch-22; it deserves a wider reputation than it has, yet it might suffer for it.\u00a0 A tremendous course on Route 353 in Salamanca, less than twenty minutes from Ellicottville, Elkdale is a public club with the fastest, most difficult greens in western New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mo-golf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elkdale CC Review &#062; 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