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If you are interested in the evolution and architecture behind a golf course, this might be of interest to you. Lots of evaluations on both American and international courses

 

http://golfclubatlas.com/

 

 

 

What's in my Mizuno BR-D2 bag

OFFICIAL TESTER FOR THE PING i500 CLUBS.

Currently playing Ping i500 w/ Alta CB graphite shafts 

  :mizuno-small: MP 25 - fitted w/ Project X shafts - stiff

  :titelist-small: 60  / 56  :mizuno-small: 52

  :titelist-small: 910 D2 driver - 9.5 degree -fitted13   F 3 wood 13.5 deg   :nike-small: CPR 3 hybrid

:nike-small: Method mallet

Dexterity:

I shoot left-handed so no one can ask me "Hey, can I try that club?" 

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If you are interested in the evolution and architecture behind a golf course, this might be of interest to you. Lots of evaluations on both American and international courses

 

http://golfclubatlas.com/

They also have lots of pretty pictures, golf course porn!

:titleist-small: Irons Titleist T200, AMT Red stiff

:callaway-small:Rogue SubZero, GD YS-Six X

:mizuno-small: T22 54 and 58 wedges

:mizuno-small: 7-wood

:Sub70: 5-wood

 B60 G5i putter

Right handed

Reston, Virginia

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Now that I'm on the DL, golf wise, I've come up with a truly stupid and useless time killer.

 

Being careful to match up ground contours like a jig saw puzzle, I sketch out course layouts comprised of my favorite holes on a multitude of courses. 

 

It would take a lot of bulldozers, dynamite, and the ability to move huge, fully grown trees to build these courses in real life, but if they existed, I'd be really depressed that I can't play them with my screwed up back.

 

But notebook in hand, I do play them in my imagination. If I remember playing each hole the best that I ever played it, I come up with some pretty impressive scores.  I play those holes in my mind as I played them once, and the funny part is that career shots are congratulated by different playing partners on every hole. Some are living and some have left us.  It must be what smoking peyote is like.

 

None of my imaginary courses would be chosen as a US Open venue.  What the holes have in common is that they're very picturesque, and that at first glance, they look much more challenging than they really are. The present brigade of PGA Tour bad haircuts and funny clothes would be threatening to break sixty, even with frequent trips to the beverage carts.

 

I shouldn't be mentioning stuff like this.  Somebody could be padding a cell for me right now.

 

 

 

 

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I refer to that site occasionally. It's a good one to bookmark in your golf favorites. And like Dave said... lots of purdy pictures.

My Sun Mountain bag currently includes:   TWGTLogo2.png.06c802075f4d211691d88895b3f34b75.png 771CSI 5i - PW and TWGTLogo2.png.06c802075f4d211691d88895b3f34b75.png PFC Micro Tour-c 52°, 56°, 60 wedges

                                                                               :755178188_TourEdge: EXS 10.5*, TWGTLogo2.png.06c802075f4d211691d88895b3f34b75.png 929-HS FW4 16.5* 

                                                                                :edel-golf-1: Willimette w/GolfPride Contour

 

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  • 5 months later...

Resurrecting this thread.  I was listening to Andy Johnson (The Fried Egg guy) on The Golfers Journal podcast.  Johnson was ranking his favorite muni restorations from across the country.  Both already restored and those facilities in need of restoration.  Sweetens Cove was #2 on his list for obvious reasons.  Hermitage Country Club (now called Belmont) in Richmond, Virginia was #1 on his list.  Hermitage was designed by AW Tillinghast and hosted the 1949 PGA Championship.  The only club in Virginia to ever host a major championship.  The layout is phenomenal but the course has been neglected for a number of years.  The private club folded and was donated to Henrico County a few years ago which led to the name change.  The bones of the original design is still very much visible even following years of neglect.  Johnson's point was, this place needs to be saved!  Most people in that area have no idea what they have in this club.

It wasn't on Johnson's list but a club in Roanoke, Virginia is in a similar situation.  Ole Monterey has suffered through decades of neglect.  William S. Flynn designed it (1920) just prior to designing Cherry Hills (1922) in the Denver area.  The original layout is still very much intact but bunkers have been overtaken by grass and weeds.  Several greens have shrunk due to lack of understanding how the green complexes were intended.  It's a shame because the architecture, layout and design are phenomenal.

These places should be restored to their previous glory.  Bringing attention to them can only help.  

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