May 9, 2008

PERU, IN — The Captains Club announced today that yardage book sheets will be distributed for Rock Hollow Golf Club in Peru, IN. The two-sided sheets will be available on the practice range on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning.

"Yardage sheets are pages from the yardage book copied and spread across nine equal spaces on one two-sided sheet of 8" x 11" paper. "The sheets will be printed with black and white ink," says Brian Long, Vice President and Online Scoring. "There will be 72 sheets printed; one for each golfer."

The entire yardage book and photographs of each hole are available online. Photographs were taken to be represent the entire course to the field of players and fans around the world.

"I will not lie," said Brian Long. "The black and white ink does help, but color would be much better. Rock Hollow does not sell yardage books. If you have a color printer, you might want to print a copy."

http://www.poststats.com/public/rockhollow.doc

Scorecards contain green sizes, shapes, and contours.

"The book does a good job representing distance to bunkers and water hazards," said Long. "What club to you use on several par 4's will be important at 'The Rock'."

Many of the holes at Rock Hollow offer tantalizing risk/reward situations, and the 286-yard 1st hole is the prototypical example. "This is where the yardage card comes in handy," says Jason Watson. "It’s a classic dogleg hole, curling from right to left around a gaping rock pit." Golfers can bail out right, and face the jeers and catcalls of your playing partners. Or, they can live like Tin Cup, gird your loins, and smack the living snot out of the ball and end up with an eagle putt. Watson added, "Of course, if the golfer cannot putt, it would be a club-throwing bogey."

The yardage sheets provide the layout of each hole.

"We will be playing the fourth shortest tournament in our history behind Grande (6,443 yards in June 2007), Thunder Hill (6,436 yards in June 2003), and Colonial (6,380 yards in April 2002)," said Brian Long. "The Rock tee is our choice tee at 6,463 yards and expected to result in the perfect challenge. Seniors will play from 5,911 yards."

The 6th hole will be the longest hole in tournament history at 571 yards.

"My favories are Hole 7 with the water and Hole 17 with the waste bunker," said Long. "I would imagine the 18th hole will be the most difficult finishing hole in Championship history."

The 2008 Carl Spackler Open begins in three weeks. Daily Pairing Sheets for the opening tournament round will be distributed at the Mandatory Player Meeting on Thursday morning.