TEPaul,
Yes, the super posted on this site with respect to the work done and Rees's pro-active and positive involvement at The Country Club.
Are you aware that the 8th tee at NGLA was lengthened a few years ago ? I know you are, because I told you so a year or so ago, and...... noone has complained.
Would you not agree that the centerline bunker complex is far more of THE strategic hazard than the principle's nose bunker, some fifty yards farther down the fairway ?
Tom MacWood,
Before the upper was built or after the upper was built.
Are you familiar with the foot pad of the old par 3 that sits crossing the fairway and rough on the current 18th hole of the upper ?
Corey Miller,
"changes have been made, but you don't know if they're Rees's." Don't you think that you should find out before rendering an opinion on his work there ?
Match Play,
At a hole like # 8, the centerline bunker complex is an integral, if not vital component to the strategy and play of the hole.
If those bunkers can be routinely flown by Walker Cup players it defeats the architect's intent, relative to the play of the hole. That's not good. Those bunkers need to remain in play.
To often match play is perceived as golfer against golfer as if the hole being played doesn't exist, and is to be ignored.
One must PLAY the hole, disregarding the field, but keeping an eye on their opponent. And since one must play the hole, shouldn't it be played as the architect intended ?
With the bunkers in play, options exist, decisions must be made, and the shot executed. If the bunkers are no longer in play, one of the primary challenges of the hole is removed, and with it, the options, decisions and challenge of the hole.
Many tees have been altered/lenghtened over the years and nobody has complained. Why the sudden objections ?