Palmetto Hall

[A.G._Crockett]

Today a friend told me about Palmetto Hall, a Bob Cupp course that he said was laid out on computer, then never changed, so that there are square greens, trapezoid bunkers, pyramid mounds, and so forth.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I have just never, never heard this story.  I did a search here on GCA, and there is a reference to the course in the Ron Whitten interview (he refers to it as the "computer glitch" course).  

Has there ever been a thread about this?  Has anyone here ever played it?  

[John_Conley]

Cad/Cam, all straight lines so you have geometric shapes.

I have not played it, but have seen it photographed a bunch.  I'm told you kind of lose perspective at ground level and it doesn't seem so odd - or at least not as funny as it looks in pictures.

[Daryl "Turboe" Boe]

Today a friend told me about Palmetto Hall, a Bob Cupp course that he said was laid out on computer, then never changed, so that there are square greens, trapezoid bunkers, pyramid mounds, and so forth.

Your comments make it sound like an accidental oversite.  From what I understand it was done intentionally with the computer generation phenomenon and Computer generated graphics being all the rage at the time.  They tried to make a course using sharp geometrical shapes.  I am ashamed to say that living here I have never played it either.  

I have however heard the same comments that John mentions that when playing it at ground level you might not even notice unless you play close attention.  From the air it looks pretty wild though.  I have talked to a few people (granted ones that could care less about architecture, etc) and some of them have not even noticed that anything was out of the ordinary.  When I asked them what they thought of the sharp goemetric lines, they said they didnt notice.  They said something like "I do recall some of the mounding being kind of sharp peaks." or something.

Someone has to find some pictures and post them here if you have never seen it A.G. it is pretty wild.