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How Golf Courses Are Playing Through Social Distancing
“Almost normal” will have to do for now.
Golfers social distancing at Stoney Creek Golf Course in Nellysford, Va.
Photographer: Dave Merrill/Bloomberg
It was in the first week of May when I, deep in the grip of self-isolation, finally stole away late in the day for an emergency nine at the golf club near my home in Granville, Ohio.
The course fits right in with the Victorian quaintness of our little village: Its front nine, a Donald Ross design commissioned to accompany the construction of the Granville Inn in 1924, is a compact, enjoyable walk over mild hills with Ross’s signature back-to-front sloped greens. I ventured out that evening because I needed the air, and I needed the satisfaction of a good drive off the tee or a well-struck iron to feel some semblance of normal.