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What makes a golf course great?
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:32 pm
Other than condition obviously. What aspects make a golf course great in your opinion? Scenery, style (links, parkland, desert), playability, green complexes?
Long and narrow off the tee or more open with options available?
For those of you that follow golf course architects, which ones do you consider the best and what qualities make you think they're the best?
Long and narrow off the tee or more open with options available?
For those of you that follow golf course architects, which ones do you consider the best and what qualities make you think they're the best?
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Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:34 pm to icegator337
Long, narrow, long rough, penal, and unplayable, specifically designed by Rees Jones. Anything that doesn't manufacture high scores and is miserable to play sucks
This post was edited on 3/12/19 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:36 pm to Rusty Scroggins
don't troll baw, you've hated enough in the other thread. I want to know what are the qualities you're looking for that makes a course truly great
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:38 pm to icegator337
Width & angles for life
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:40 pm to icegator337
A few characteristics are options off the tee, true "risk/reward." one side of the fairway provides a good look at the flag whereas the other side brings in a bad angle to the green. This let's more people hit the fairway, but allows for a great recovery shot or a bad score depending on aggression of the player.
Things like centerline bunkers that can influence the player mentally to take a certain line
Good green complexes.
Mackenzie, Maxwell, Raynor, Tillinghast, Maxwell, Macdonald, Ross, Coore Crenshaw, Doak, among others.
Everything described above and not moving a shite ton of land to build neighborhoods around the courses
Things like centerline bunkers that can influence the player mentally to take a certain line
Good green complexes.
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For those of you that follow golf course architects, which ones do you consider the best
Mackenzie, Maxwell, Raynor, Tillinghast, Maxwell, Macdonald, Ross, Coore Crenshaw, Doak, among others.
quote:
what qualities make you think they're the best?
Everything described above and not moving a shite ton of land to build neighborhoods around the courses
This post was edited on 3/12/19 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:41 pm to icegator337
having never played any courses outside of southern LA and only seeing pictures online, I would say scenery.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:46 pm to Woolfman_8
Scenery is great, but you also need great golf course design to go along with that.
Torrey Pines could be an absolutely fantastic course, but they butchered the design. I don’t think it could be as good as Pebble, but it could at least be close.
Torrey Pines could be an absolutely fantastic course, but they butchered the design. I don’t think it could be as good as Pebble, but it could at least be close.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:48 pm to Rusty Scroggins
quote:You must really like Maxwell.
Mackenzie, Maxwell, Raynor, Tillinghast, Maxwell, Macdonald, Ross, Coore Crenshaw, Doak
Where's Dye?
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:49 pm to Dawgsontop34
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I don’t think it could be as good as Pebble
Only 7000 yards therefore it sucks and -25 will win the US Open this year
This post was edited on 3/12/19 at 1:50 pm
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:50 pm to ell_13
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Where's Dye?
Some of his stuff is OK, but none of it is great.
And he should be disqualified from the conversation on TPC of Louisiana alone
This post was edited on 3/12/19 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:51 pm to Rusty Scroggins
quote:How do you think the US Open makes their courses difficult? God damn, you are dumb.
-25 will win the US Open this year
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:52 pm to Rusty Scroggins
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Only 7000 yards therefore it sucks and -25 will win the US Open this year
Congrats on being a retard and derailing 2 threads
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:54 pm to ell_13
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How do you think the US Open makes their courses difficult?
Wind, uneven lies, and hard small greens that where you are in the fairway from matters?
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:58 pm to icegator337
A Seth Raynor design.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 1:59 pm to Rusty Scroggins
You think Pebble normally plays hard don't you?
Posted on 3/12/19 at 2:01 pm to ell_13
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You think Pebble normally plays hard don't you?
Not particularly hard, especially when it's soft.
Hard /= good either way though.
Torrey is hard, Torrey also sucks.
Long hard golf courses can be very good. Example A Bethpage.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 2:05 pm to Rusty Scroggins
I agree with a lot of what you've said about design and layout but...
you do know who did the redesign?
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Long hard golf courses can be very good. Example A Bethpage.
you do know who did the redesign?
Posted on 3/12/19 at 2:06 pm to icegator337
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you do know who did the redesign?
Yes and it's worse than it was, but it's still good. A broken clock is right twice a day.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 2:07 pm to Rusty Scroggins
I took a trip to Streamsong somewhat recently and it's got much of what you've described. I really enjoyed the red and blue courses, didn't get to play the black.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 2:11 pm to TheMailman
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TheMailman
go frick yourself on the ladies tees
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