Scary story about landing on a Lake Tahoe golf course

On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 2:56:33 PM UTC-7, 2G wrote:
Good part was it was late in the day and there were no golfers on this hole:

https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3....l?dsId=8033935

I was in Hawaii when a glider went into the ocean in the 90's. Talking with the pilot several months after he recovered from his injuries was humbling. Due to his own mistakes of fly way too fast on downwind because he had to pee, the rudder of his Duster departed during flutter. The salty wet environment at Dillingham had degraded the plywood. With out a rudder he was experiencing huge yaw with any aileron input. He explained it was a choice of crash landing on the water or land . He choose the water thinking he stood a better chance of surviving. He recalled mentally being prepared for the plane to go inverted or submarine on impact. Having his hand on the belt release. The plane on touching the water, decelerated so quickly it tore the wings off and the cockpit disintegrated. Be went through the nose collecting huge splinters of wood in his legs. He survived only because of some local surfers came to his rescue. So water landings can be very violent on a choppy surface.

"Rafting is a popular activity in the hills of eastern Tennessee, and the Hiwassee is reckoned to be a good river for this. But a raft made by Schempp-Hirth is probably a poor choice."

One of my favorite lines by John Good.

https://soaringcafe.com/2013/04/raft...e%20gliderport.

Same in Europe for Schleicher. Our club had to spend a similar amount for putting an otherwise undamaged ASK21 in service, after a lake landing. I guess the days of let-it-dry and rig are finished.
Nobody got hurt in Italy for water landings. Minor concussions for a spin and water crash (glider destroyed).

Aldo Cernezzi
www.voloavela.it

Schempp policy for water landing is that all pushrods get changed in the gliders, they cannot risk corrosion and resulting ADs 10-20 years later. I once asked factory guy how much this is, answer was that around 20k euros (lots of holes in wings)

On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 4:56:33 PM UTC-5, 2G wrote:
Good part was it was late in the day and there were no golfers on this hole:

https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3....l?dsId=8033935

I just checked google earth, what hole did the landing occur on?