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Sutton
Bay shines
among dramatic
landforms in spacious
South Dakota
The day I played the Sutton Bay Golf Club weightless, fleecy-white clouds dappled a steel blue sky. For as far as I could see, Lake Oahe glistened, glowed, and fanned itself around the far-away mustard coloured hills on the other side.Save for the flagsticks, the checkerboard fairways that swerved through the boulder-scattered hills, there was no sign of man. I was the only one out there. I had the links to myself. It was surreal, one of the dreamiest golf experiences I've ever had. And from every tee, every fairway, I saw this glorious lake, played one stirring hole after another, puzzles pinched between the fescue-capped hills, and I wondered: how onearth can a place like this exist?
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