[Ed. Note: The first round of this coming weekend’s Goodboys Invitational will be played at Sagamore Spring Golf Club In Lynnfield, Mass. Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee previews the course and offers his own thoughts as to what the Goodboys can expect as they kick off the 21st annual Goodboys Invitational.]

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Hi, I’m Brandel Chamblee with this special Goodboys Nation weblog preview of this coming weekend’s 21st annual Goodboys Invitational. The first leg of this year’s three-day event will be played at historic Sagamore Spring Golf Club in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Located just 17 miles northwest of downtown Boston, Sagamore Spring, which opened back in 1929, is your typical, suburban public course, and while it won’t present the same kind challenges and difficulty offered by certain Maine and Cape Cod courses of recent memory, its wide-open track and modest length will force any Goodboy who wants to get off to a good start to go low.

Sagamore Spring features 5,936 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 70. With a course rating is 68.6 and a slope rating of 119, you can bet the better Goodboys golfers like Mike “Vegas” Clark and Steve “Killer” Kowalski will be shooting at the pins all day long, forcing medium to lesser golfers in the field (I won’t mention their names) to keep their heads and just play their own games. Sagamore Spring may not appear to be all that difficult – at least on the surface – but high numbers are still out there if attention lags for any reason.

Sagamore Spring is a par 70 course with six par 3s, but 4 of them are quite long (with Exec-Comm dictating the boys will be playing from the blues, anywhere from 171 to 210 yards) – sufficient to challenge any Goodboy brave enough to make a pigeon sheet bet on the day’s par 3 play. The course can be quite challenging in places, with several greens hidden behind traps and hills. Driving accuracy is highly rewarded. Greens are moderate in speed, although not particularly challenging. Taken together, Sagamore Spring is a perfect locale for the first day of play at this year’s Goodboys Invitational.

The prediction here is that many of the Goodboys will challenge their allotted numbers, making for some interesting betting for Saturday’s and Sunday’s play.