...under Architecture Timeline and Courses by Country.
We are still in the retrieval process of another hundred pages of past topic threads. However, in reviewing some of the old ones I started, I cringe at the proclamations that seem to have initiated from my keyboard. If I had to rank
my stupidity, at the top of the list would be sweeping generalizations. For instance, there is no good golf in Florida apart from Seminole (Boca Rio, Indian Creek, World Woods, Mountain Lake, etc. prove that wrong), every golfer needs to get to Scotland (true but every golfer REALLY needs to get to England), etc.
One such generalization that I always believed true was "Casa de Campo is the only place a golfer need bother with in the Caribbean." Well, this too proved humongously wrong as well based on a week at Tryall in Jamaica. I had seen this course on TV for the Johnnie Walker and it looked good and it always produced a top champion but still....who is Ralph Plummer and if the course was good, why doesn't anyone EVER talk about it? I still have no clue as to an answer to the second question (perhaps we should have a GCA.com meeting down there next winter?) but Ralph Plummer is a lay of the land architect who went against the grain of the name architects of the 1960-80's by moving as little land as possible while still giving holes good golf quality.
See what you think but this course (and the resort as a whole) is infinitely worth getting to know. Tryall ranks up there with some of the biggest pleasant surprises (Eastward Ho!, Kirtland CC, Brora, Black Mesa, Charles River, Milwaukee CC, Beverly CC, Chung Shan, etc.) that I've ever had.
Cheers,