The 11th green, the Quechee Club, Lakeland Course

The 11th green, the Quechee Club, Lakeland Course

Sometimes you just get lucky.

A friend of ours invited us to play golf with him at the Quechee Club in Quechee Vermont just east of Woodstock. What a beautiful setting. The Quechee Club features 2 golf courses, the Lakelands and the Highlands courses, spread out in a 5000 acre complex. We had 9:12 AM tee times at the Lakelands on a beautiful, sunny, mid-80 degree day.

The Lakelands course, as the name implies, is built around a large lake in the center of the Quechee complex. My guess is that the area that the course occupies was once part of the riverbed structure of the Ottaquechee river. We were told that the large lake in the center of the complex was manmade when the complex was constructed, probably to collect ground water and direct it away from structures in the complex, but I am only guessing here. What ever the reason for it's existence, the lake now provides a home to countless water fowl and other wildlife in a very natural setting.

Today's picture shows the green on the 11th hole, with part of the lake system in front of it. For the record, my drive landed on the peninsular in the picture. I then hit a 6 iron about 180 yards, landing in the small sand trap to the left of the pin behind the green (the pin was just about 1 pin length from the back of the green to the right of the trap). From there the hole turned rather ugly from a score standpoint, but the setting was so nice and the day was so beautiful, you won't find me complaining at all.

A very nice day to be in Vermont.