Green Mountain National last October Nick Piastowski We hate leaves. Dotting our green fairways and our green greens, they conceal our game, and, frustratingly, they disrupt it. You’ve heard the cries.
Has anyone seen my ball? Did you get eyes on my shot that, I swear, went right down Center Ave. ? Foliage, too, acts as golf’s last call as summer turns to fall, before giving way to cold, golf-less winter, the thought being: You don’t have to leave (pun partially intended) but you can’t golf here . It’s all melancholy — unless the surrounding leaves are so beautiful, so breathtaking, so scenic, that it feels as if someone dropped you into a painting colored by the entire crayon box, and you no longer care about the negatives, because the positives electrify.
All of which is how you feel at Green Mountain National. Or at least I do. But wait, there’s more , he says in his commercial-announcer voice.
It’s a bit of a steal, too. By now, you’ve maybe seen our list wonderfully headlined “America’s best golf courses for $100 or less: Where memorability meets affordability,” along with some of my colleagues’ odes to the selections, and pulling back the curtain on how we operate here, I jumped when I saw Green Mountain , located in Killington, Vt., among our list.
And why? Because it’s purdy. It’s a challenge, too. Hole 2 is a favorite.
It’s a dogleg-right par-4. Blind tee shot. Water to the right of the green.
Hole 6 is another good one. It’s a split.