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• MioKontic 4,643 Posts

  Thu, Dec 30 2021 8:59 AM

  Seems someone has been letting off flares behind the 4th(?) green on Congressional...

  

  Click on the picture for a larger view.

  First time in 10 years I've noticed that, mainly because I'm focusing on the job in hand, but when you have someone taking 40+ seconds on each shot you tend to get a bit bored and start looking around.

  Still got my 3 to his 4, so what a waste of 2 and a half minutes that was for him!  AND ME!!!

• HamdenPro 2,468 Posts

  Thu, Dec 30 2021 11:50 AM

  I cannot see anything. Where are the flares?

  Is it possible, because your opponent was taking more that 10 seconds and you go so mad, that you were seeing spots?

  

• MioKontic 4,643 Posts

  Thu, Dec 30 2021 2:29 PM

  You don't see the red flare at the back of the green, on the right of the picture?  Click on it to enlarge it, you can't miss it then.

• HamdenPro 2,468 Posts

  Thu, Dec 30 2021 3:47 PM

  Yep, I see it now. When I first saw it, it looked more like a tent, or "bubble".  Enlarged, I can see the smoke. Hmmmm...

  Given that this was on Congressional, on the 4th green, it can only be 1 of two things:

  1) A reference to the 4th of July; or

  2) A riot.

  I hope was 1 but I fear it was 2.

  Here it is enlarged:

  

   

  You may be onto something Mio, I will have to go check it out. 

• garylewisgr 415 Posts

  Thu, Dec 30 2021 5:34 PM

  Or it could be just flowers that golf courses love to decorate their courses with when having tourneys !

  Gary       

  HAPPY NEW YEAR !

• Cicero733 2,307 Posts

  Thu, Dec 30 2021 5:37 PM

  You don’t think that’s part of the landscaping? Like maybe azaleas or small leaf rhododendron?

• HamdenPro 2,468 Posts

  Thu, Dec 30 2021 5:43 PM

  Cicero733:

  You don’t think that’s part of the landscaping?

  No, I think Mio is correct. When I did enlarge the picture, I could clearly see the whiteish gray smoke transitioning into the red and at the end of the "cloud" it thins out.  Definitely smoke, like a flare, but considering it is the 4th hole of a course originally created for members of Congress, and guest, I would say it is no coincidence. IMO

   

  EDIT: And then again, it could be landscaping like maybe azaleas or small leaf rhododendron.

   

• PureGro1 1,656 Posts

  Fri, Dec 31 2021 1:58 PM

  HamdenPro:

  EDIT: And then again, it could be landscaping like maybe azaleas or small leaf rhododendron.

  hole 5 or 6 you can get a good view from tee...

• HamdenPro 2,468 Posts

  Fri, Dec 31 2021 4:37 PM

  I had just an incredible moment, one of those moments where you know, somehow, we are all connected.

  I was just about to send a PM to Mr. Mostly Right and ask about you (PureGro1). I had not seen you in the forums for a little while and thought the worst. Either you were banned or caught in a vortex while reading the Last Word.

  Happy New Year!

• pmm711 5,641 Posts

  Fri, Dec 31 2021 6:16 PM

  Who really cares?  Bushes exist on golf courses.  This isn't the Northern Lights or anything FCS.