GC2B506 FORE! #4 - Buzzard at Burnet (Unknown Cache) in New York, United States created by macgruff

This cache has been archived.

Sapience Trek: As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

GC2B506 ▼

A cache by macgruff Message this owner

Hidden : 7/2/2010

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

NOTE: The cache is NOT located at the posted coordinates, but is within a short walking distance!

Cache is a micro, with only enough room for the log, so BYOP.

**Cache puzzle was changed in August 2011 due to a change in the number of dimples a certain company puts on a certain golf ball. The current number of dimples is three digits, with the middle one being a 5. Don't use the old number of dimples, which had a middle digit of 9.**

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After being sidelined for several weeks with a bruised ego, everyone's favorite golfer, Scooter McPuttz, was ready to tear up the local golfing offerings. When we last saw him, Scooter was busy slicing his way through Sunnycrest (see FORE! #3 for more), so what better way to get his groove back than by visiting Syracuse's other municipal course?

His next stop: Burnet Park.

It didn't take long for Scooter to embarrass himself yet again. Onlookers recall that McPuttz seemed concerned about driving the ball too far, and potentially hitting cars driving by behind the green (Burnet Park Drive runs behind the green on the opening hole).

Perhaps he should have been more concerned with the cars parked to his immediate left, in the parking lot, because no sooner was the ball in the air than it hooked sharply into the trees.

As he walked into the woods for his next shot, the onlookers could hear him mumbling about "the dang wind" being the cause of his terrible shot. After several minutes of searching McPuttz could not locate the ball, so he played a drop (not counting it as a stroke, naturally), and finished up the hole with only a double bogey.

The lost ball landed somewhere off the fairway, outside of the golf course.

The posted coordinates correspond to where McPuttz was last standing, when he hit the ball.

NOTE: Finding the cache does NOT require setting foot on the golf course. Please replace cache exactly as found.

To find the cache, solve for the coordinates below.

N 43 02.(A+B+E)
W 76 11.(C*D)

A = career PGA wins by Slammin' Sammy
B = number of dimples on the "#1 ball in golf"
C = see below
D = most consecutive birdies in a PGA event
E = minimum age required to be eligible for the World Golf Hall of Fame