Dan Soberg has been playing at Metchosin Golf Course for many years and knows the nine-hole layout pretty well.
Even he was a bit taken back during seniorB次元官网网址檚 day play Monday, when the club installed jumbo eight-inch holes on each green to accompany the regular four-inch diameter cups.
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Soberg, who plays three times a week on average, liked how the change made his regular weekly game more challenging.
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Metchosin head professional Jeff Dinn said the club gave the larger cups a one-day trial to see what the response might be. TheyB次元官网网址檙e looking at swapping out the regular cups as often as once or twice a week starting in July, he said.
The idea came to club owner Grant West when he was watching the news one day and saw a club in Langley using the bigger cups.
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The Metchosin club wasnB次元官网网址檛 the only one on the West Shore to give the bigger holes a shot this week.
Highland Pacific installed the eight-inch cups early this week and left them in, allowing golfers to play either sized cup on every hole.
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The club tried the large holes a couple of years ago, Reeves said, and decided to give them another go.
For details about the program, call Metchosin at 250-478-3266 () or Highland Pacific at 250-478-4653 ().
B次元官网网址� with files from Arnold Lim
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