Gonzo Golf - Sir Shanksalot Plays Thornberry Creek

As far as golf days go, yesterday was as perfect as it could get: good crew, little wind, zero clouds, and copious amounts of Miller aiming juice.


Thornberry Creek is a decent local course. It is consistently overshadowed by the Privates (GBCC, Oneida G&R, etc...), Brown County, and by the business headlines of the failures of the previous owners. Hopefully the Tribe can make it work.


On a more pleasant note, Thornberry Creek plays tight, but if you can land your balls in the fine Fescues of the fairway, you always have good looks at the hole. How you fare from there all depends on how you play the fairway woods and long irons. Dog legs come into play on a few holes, as does a small lake. Not a whole lot by the way of elevation changes, save for maybe the first hole and last holes. The greens were slower, but for the most part seemed in pretty good shape.

The views are mostly pretty, but there were a few instances where it seemed like we were playing through some one's subdivision, which in fact we were. Sometimes it is nice to not have houses EVERYWHERE on a course.

The only slightly off key point in the day was getting hurried along by the Marshall. We weren't playing slow. The first nine took us 2 hrs and 10 minutes, but the course was crowded so it is somewhat understandable that they want to get people through. I am sure they can use the revenue.

For $56 you get to play a nice local course with some challenging holes, and good views of various fine residential architecture. On a difficulty scale to 10, this is probably a 5, using a 30 degree day with 30 mile an hour winds out at Whistling Straits as the basis for a 10.

Gonzo Guide Green Bay gives the overall Thornberry Creek experience 3.831 long balls out of 5. Chicks dig the long ball.

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Gomez Gonzo
Gonzo Editor-at-Large
gomez@gonzoguidegreenbay.com