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Willie Park, Jr.
Michael Moore:
This here is a picture of the seventh green at the Castine Golf Club in Castine, Maine, a largely untouched Park Jr. nine holer. I hope that one can make out the severe ridge which vertically bifurcates this green.
I love this kind of design, in which a small amount of dirt has been moved and piled up a very short distance away.
Steve_ Shaffer:
Philmont South in Huntingdon Valley, PA is a Park design from 1907. Small undulating greens characterize this course, the original course at Philmont. The North is a Flynn/Toomey design built in the 1920s.
Steve
Pete Lavallee:
New Bedford CC, in Mass. has the orignal 9 holes by Park with Ross adding 9 more. My recollection was that the Park holes were far superior to the ones Ross added, granted the fact that the Park holes occcupy the more interesting terrain. The course just recently had restoration/renovation; I'de be interested to here opinions on how it came out.
Jason Mandel:
Philmont South,
although others probably know more about this than I, i believe some of the orignial holes here have been changed, and maybe even the greens. it's a tight little course but does have some very neat holes, in particular a couple of the par 3's.
This was the orignial course for Philmont, until they brought Flynn in to do the new course. there is a lot of architecture in that south course, and every summer when they have their north/south better ball, they get the greens at ridiculous speeds, especially on the south course, and it becomes one of the tougher test of golf.
Robert Mercer Deruntz:
If you think Rulwich messed up Yale, you still might find it hard to believe what he did to Woodway!Woodway was a great layout with some really cool holes--that is; as long as you could visiualize it with literally 5,000 less trees! Woodway and its trees--the club takes great pride in how they took a huge open meadow and created a golf course that weaves through an overgrown forrest. The clubhouse was moved recently at extemely great expense and resulted in the compromising of 3 holes. A new par 3 18th now exists. This green is probably 3X the size of the other 17 greens and features several tiers, some Rulwich style bunkers, and a pond. Those who have played Rulwich courses have played this hole several times before--this hole is the very definition of generic!
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