raptor. what a tough course. made tougher by the fact that:
1. i only had about 4 hours sleep the night before (the first time i played it).
2. i had just played the westin resort course the day before ... btw, not to digress but playing the westin before playing grayhawk is not advisable, it's like warming up by wrestling tiger cub then going in to wrestle a adult tiger... NOT the same thing!
3. i played with a couple scratch golfers who wanted to play the one-ups as opposed to the mortal men's tees
beautiful course. never really had a bad lie. never really had a bumpy or slow green. very narrow fairways though. i think it would have been smart of me to use my fairway wood to tee off instead of the driver. i lost a lot of balls becasue of the copious out-of-bounds areas and narrow holes. i even lost one ball when i was approaching the greens from 170 yards. i hit a really pretty excellent 6 iron that headed straight for the middle of the green but drew just a bit to miss the green by about 5 yards. yep. 15 feet off the green, about 40 feet to the pin. pretty decent approach. lost the ball. that's how narrow the course is. if you want a challenge go check the place out but don't be surprised if you score much worse than you normally do.
the second time i played it (recently) i did a bit better. scored four pars on the back nine (nearly five) after getting crushed on the front 9.