Article: Fox Ridge course challenges field

AUBURN - Fair, but tough.

That's how Fox Ridge Golf Club Superintendent Eddie Michaud wanted the course to play, and that's how golfers are finding it.

"The pins are in playable spots, but when you get around the holes, watch out," said former Sugarloaf pro Mike Baker. "You get a three-footer that's really fast, where you have to play break, if you hit it too hard and you catch the lip it'll spin out. If you hit too soft, it's going to take the break. That's what I found, anyway, and you start doing that a few times, you start thinking too much, going, 'How do hit this one, now?' It's a little nervy when you get those 3- and 4-footers."

Baker followed a first-round 69 with a 74 on Wednesday ...

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