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Neil Regan

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Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« on: September 29, 2004, 01:05:15 AM »
Small version first, followed by full-screen version




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Tyler Kearns

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2004, 01:56:12 AM »
Awesome!

Words can do no justice to what is captured by that image. Please, keep them coming!!

Tyler Kearns
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Wayne_Freedman

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2004, 02:32:39 AM »
Please excuse me while I wipe myself off.
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A_Clay_Man

Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2004, 08:09:43 AM »
One interesting aspect of this hole
 was the need to dig-out that massive blow-out bunker,
 left, to create the fill, to build-up that green.


Thanx for posting these Nebraska pics.
« Last Edit: September 29, 2004, 08:10:07 AM by Adam Clayman »
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Jfaspen

Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2004, 08:44:03 AM »
I bet that hole can be a lot of fun when those winds kick up.

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JakaB

Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2004, 08:49:21 AM »
This green reminds me of the logo hole for the Donald Ross Society....
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Scott_Burroughs

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2004, 10:05:10 AM »
Looks like a tough bunker to hit out of (the left one  ::)).  
Wouldn't surprise me if there are remains of lost golfers in there.
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Neil Regan

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« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2004, 11:07:53 AM »
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Scott, this bunker is near and dear to my heart as I once accused Dr. G of photographing a figurine in the bunker to overstate its scale when in fact it was a picture of young Christian.  The photo does not begin to depict the depth of that bunker and anyone is really missing out if they don't go over there a drop a ball or two for sport.    

Mike


Scott tried it.
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Gene Greco

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2004, 11:23:57 AM »
This view is from Christian's tee. There are three other tees in back of this one including the double diamond at 485 yards. The green looks like it is on another planet from this distance.

Regarding the left bunker, I have previously posted a picture of Christian (my son) hitting out of that bunker. Mike Hendren remarked that the picture looked like it was taken by Coore-Crenshaw conspirists on this site as Christian appeared to look like no more than a 6 inch figurine. :D

Another note regarding this hole:

Tom Huckaby had a four foot putt for birdie from the 485 yd tee but had some pressure. You see, myself and two others in our group (Childs and Brad Miller?) had already birdied it! The caddie said he had seen only one other birdie on that hole in four years!

Huckaby missed it.  
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THuckaby2

Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2004, 11:27:23 AM »
Memories... like the corners of my mind...
misty water-colored memories...
of me choking golf shots....

Scattered pictures..
of the birdies I left behind
Birdies only in my mind though
replaced by choking golf shots....

Can it be that I was such a gag then?
Or has time made me feel like I don't stink?
If I had a chance to do it all again...
Tell me, would I?
Could I?

Memories... seem so beautiful and then
Gene Greco has to remind me....
Of one of the great gags of my golf life....

I'm a choking dog....

I'm a
choke
ing

dog........

 :'( :'( :'(
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Mike Hendren

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2004, 11:35:01 AM »
Gene,

I inadvertantly deleted a post recounting that I had mistaken Christian for a 6" figurine in that very bunker.  

Neil, thanks for the photo of Scott.  It more accurately depicts the depth of that bunker.  The walls that deploy on The Big Break are nothing compared to the height of that bunker's lip.  My try from Scott's lie finished a few feet over the green thanks to my trust chocolate shafted R-90.  

Mike
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RJ_Daley

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2004, 11:41:05 AM »
Oh that is just the image I need this morning!  Tom Huckaby doing Kareoke golfing renditions of Bahbwa Stweisandt in the downstairs lounge at the Sand Hills Club. ;) ::) 8)  
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Brad Swanson

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2004, 11:59:15 AM »
Quote from: Gene Greco on September 29, 2004, 11:23:57 AM
Regarding the left bunker, I have previously posted a picture of Christian (my son) hitting out of that bunker. Mike Hendren remarked that the picture looked like it was taken by Coore-Crenshaw conspirists on this site as Christian appeared to look like no more than a 6 inch figurine. :D

I fondly recall Doug Wright having to hit his third from about a yard right of the edge of this blow-out/bunker/pit.  He hit his shot with his heels hanging over the edge and Jason Hines and myself nearby ready to catch him to prevent a plunge to the depths below.  That hazard is an icon of bunkers everywhere.


Cheers,
Brad Swanson
« Last Edit: September 29, 2004, 12:37:01 PM by Brad Swanson »
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ed_getka

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2004, 12:08:58 PM »
Neil,
  I don't know what you do in your day job, but you have seriously missed your calling. You are one gifted photographer.

Even with Scott in the bunker it doesn't do justice. You can put an average size 3 bedroom 2 bath house in that sucker.
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George Pazin

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2004, 12:10:57 PM »
Would it be possible to post the larger photo without the effects?

Thanks for posting more SH photos, everyone - they never get old. Thank you especially for the photo with Scott in the bunker - the scale doesn't necessarily show in the initial photos.
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A_Clay_Man

Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2004, 01:00:48 PM »
Memories?

I always thought it was Mammaries.

Speaking of which...
Which green's front rightside, has the best
rounded breastesies look, 4 or 7?
« Last Edit: September 29, 2004, 01:09:21 PM by Adam Clayman »
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Gene Greco

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #16 on: September 29, 2004, 03:25:09 PM »
RJ:

  I'm not a Streisand fan either. However, he did wonderful renditions of "Jimmy Crack Corn" and "Dinah Blow Your Horn" at 2:30 am in Baily's Irish Pub after his day at NGLA/Shinnecock.  :D
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THuckaby2

Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #17 on: September 29, 2004, 03:27:50 PM »
Quote from: Gene Greco on September 29, 2004, 03:25:09 PM
RJ:

  I'm not a Streisand fan either. However, he did wonderful renditions of "Jimmy Crack Corn" and "Dinah Blow Your Horn" at 2:30 am in Baily's Irish Pub after his day at NGLA/Shinnecock.  :D

Oh man Gene.. I am crying laughing at that... if only because
whilst I have no actual memory of such, I have no doubt that
it's true.

 ;D ;D ;D

God these are fantastic pics, btw.  Neil has incredible talent
as a photographer.  But tell me, can he sing?

TH
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Neil Regan

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #18 on: September 29, 2004, 04:20:05 PM »
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Gene: "There are three other tees in back of this one including the double diamond at 485 yards. The green looks like it is on another planet from this distance."

Naffer plans his journey.[/i]



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Gene Greco

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #19 on: September 29, 2004, 07:32:06 PM »
The line of play on this hole from each tee with varying winds is endless, as are most holes at The Sand Hills.

That magic hour as your sippin' whisky on Ben's Porch is closer to being brought to light across cyberspace thanks to the obsessively focused eye of one, Mr. Neil Regan.
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Gene Greco

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Re:Sand Hills #4 Screen Size
« Reply #20 on: October 01, 2004, 08:38:56 PM »
Any pictures of Christian from this tee (or any other)?
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