Cliffhangers at Big Cedar Golf is a must for all golf fans everywhere

Golf means different things for different people.

It offers an opportunity for exercise, it is obvious since it is a physical activity.

You can challenge yourself mentally in the golf course. It is the only sport or game in which you are completely and totally in competition with the person in the mirror who looks through you.

With golf courses all over the world, you can play in all kinds of conditions. There are different things you can see, hear and feel for a given turn.

There is also a common aspect to golf. The time spent with those we care for, or in random strangers, we are in a group, helps us forge memories that we hold. Great strokes (or bad!) Do they remember and the stories of their greatest are greater as time passes.

I had the great blessing in my life to visit a number of golf destinations and participate in incredible golf adventures. I am here to tell you that nothing will check all these boxes like Cliffhangers, the new Par-3 course at the Big Cedar Golf.

It opens on July 4 and must climb at the top of your list.

This is the second hole, waterfalls, at Cliffhangers. There is a literal waterfall between you and green. You can see the trail of the cart to the left … You lead to a break in the waterfall to get there. Total normal stuff … at Cliffhangers and nowhere else.

It is a unique place. Not just golf. On earth in general.

Each fan of golf, outdoor, spectacular views or life in general will love cliffhangers

While the course officially opens on July 4, I was lucky to have the chance to visit and play cliffhangers at the end of June. I am here to tell you that you must also do it.

Golf lovers obviously know Big Cedar Golf in general. Payne’s Valley is on the list of buckets of everyone. Buffalo Ridge is a delight (they have just reopened with new greens in June and it is in perfect condition). Ozarks National will test you and turn you. It is a sacred place for golf as a whole.

With all the respect I owe you to his other courses illustrious, Big Cedar Golf no longer offers anything like cliffhangers. It looks like Disney World has designed a turn so that you can be beyond the interior. You are the vehicle riding on the slopes. At this point, there are no real tracks. The course opens so that you design them yourself with all kinds of pleasure surrounding each hole, whether it is a body of water, a cascade as indicated or a series of bunkers. One of the holes is even called bunkers and at some point on the route, you also drive through a bunker on the path of the cart.

View of the grid

To be clear, I am hardly a stick with regard to this beautiful game. I am comfortable with my skills and I generally cannot embarrass myself, but I do not fix any course file. We can all sympathize with this arrangement, I am sure.

That being said, I found cliffhangers that are both accessible and incredibly difficult. Her design offered me opportunities to mark and use slopes to my advantage, but she also punished my missed successes as he should. Beyond any level of competence or talent, it also made me feel both as a star of the PGA Tour in the middle of such a spectacular place as well as as Mark Watney crossing Mars with the way I felt completely and completely isolated. Big Cedar Golf and The Lodge do an incredible job to enter their visitors away from the rest of the world and cliffhangers are no exception.

Like any good golf course, cliffhangers also have elements and signature holes. There is those Moments and photos that you remember above the others when everything is said and done.

There is no doubt that “Lion’s Den” stands out in this regard. You enter by a cave and tells you that during the construction of the Payne valley, a “mature mountain lion” was observed. It is advisable to continue at your own risk. Seriously. What a thrill.

When you sail in the cave, you are led to an opening and realize that you are under a cascade. This is where you have to hit your tee shot. I tell you, this place is special.

As you drive the cave and at the bottom of the hill (crossing another waterfall), all the concerns and the Whatrs’ which take place feel nonexistent. Green overlooks a drop in elevation and you feel both small compared to the whole world and large compared to your place at the same time.

Golf cycles in Big Cedar are unique if it is not easy and that means you get a bison dog halfway. This also applies to cliffhangers. This special place offers a transformative experience from the moment you set foot on the property and hospitality of each staff sector guarantees that you feel it.

While I played cliffhangers in the afternoon, I was able to attend a special property event in the evening. The reintegration of the driving that Disney World has designed was one thing, but being encountered by “Walt” in the process made the experience even more special. Johnny Morris and JP Morris offered some reflections and contribution to what led to the creation and design of Cliffhangers while showing us their favorite parts. The father and son duo is well known for the way they designed and supervised both in the Ozarks and now Cliffhangers serves as a last point of pride.

It is difficult to summarize what this part of the space in which we live all resembles when the sun sets. Nothing else matters when you are here. All that is happening is you, golf, nature and life.

View of the grid

There is not a single part of the cliffhangers that does not offer one of the most breathtaking views you have ever seen in your life. Those who know that the Ozarks are humiliating to stay in the presence and that’s exactly what I felt at each stage that I have taken.

If it is not easy, my steps were through several elevation points. You descend a little throughout this trip and when you finish 18, you must obviously go up, relatively speaking. It was quite special to live.

Look how much the cliff if you want, the 18 -year -old box. You have to travel on the way back and as you do, you neglect the quest you have just crossed. On the way, you have encountered more terrains and signature elements of Big Cedar Golf as a whole, it is as after the big drop in when you are taken where you are on the car for the first time.

View of the grid

As long as I live, I will remember my day at Cliffhangers. It was the golf on the edge to all the capacities that it could be.

The property has the highest approval seal that I can give. You will move away from this experience with a point of pride for having survived, but also with a full heart thanks to the joy contained in each grass blade, the cascade drop and the grain of sand in its many traps.

Go. Appreciate. Prosper.

Big Cedar Golf provided trips and accommodation for this story, but did not obtain a creative contribution and did not interfere with our editorial independence or the integrity of this review.