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Tame the Wolf

You’d better bring your A-game!

STORY BY BILL BOWMAN | PHOTOGRAPHY PROIDED BY WOLF CREEK GOLF CLUB

f you’re looking for a challenge that $300 per team (with a 30-team limit) with greens rolling at 11 or 12 and with the back
epitomizes the ‘wow’ factor when it most of the fee going back into the prize fund. tees, some of the forced carries can be 230 to
comes to golf, this is just what the The event will have a 10 a.m. shotgun start. 240 yards so it’s a challenge.”
Idoctor ordered: A tournament on a Now if you think Wolf Creek is a tough For your average Joe, well, you might want
world-class golf course that is maxed out in test from any of the sets of tees, wait until to bring along an extra sleeve of balls…or
length as well as difficulty. you take on this beast from way, way back. At two…or three. But remember, this is a two-
Welcome to the Tame The Wolf challenge 6,939 yards, it’s not the longest course players man scramble, so players will be able to get a
at Wolf Creek Golf Club. will tackle. But add in a slope of 154 and this little (or a lot) of help from a buddy.
Players will tee it up from as far back as the one will challenge even the best players. This is the fourth year the staff has held this
staff at Mesquite’s Wolf Creek Golf Club can “We make the course as tough as we can,” promotion and most of the golfers who tee
place the tee markers. The two-man scramble says Darren Stanek, general manager. “We it up can really play the game. The best score
will be held December 9, 2017. The cost is place some of the pins on tiers, we get the anyone’s been able to post is a 12-under-par

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