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NAF

Does this look like good golf to you?
« on: January 20, 2005, 11:12:53 AM »

« Last Edit: January 20, 2005, 11:13:20 AM by Noel Freeman »
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THuckaby2

Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2005, 11:15:24 AM »
sure, why not?  I bet the views are pretty spectacular.  Of course I'd love to put a tee inside that fort and a green out on that little peninsula (or vice versa), but we can only dare to dream.

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Andy Hughes

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Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2005, 11:20:29 AM »
Yeah Tom, doesn't look like the peninsula (or fort)  is even used!  :-\ Pity.
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ForkaB

Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2005, 11:20:47 AM »
Looks like a replica of the 9th at Turnberry.
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TEPaul

Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2005, 11:35:42 AM »
Definitely not! That dramatic spit of land is where the clubhouse needs to be! It also appears to be a most clever way of promoting constant membership turnover so the morale of the club can stay fresh.




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« Last Edit: January 20, 2005, 11:37:55 AM by TEPaul »
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Andy Hughes

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Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2005, 11:48:40 AM »
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That dramatic spit of land is where the clubhouse needs to be!
Tom, are ye daft man? :) The clubhouse is already sitting there, waiting to be used, and it appears to have very solidly fortified walls, though the roof perhaps could use some work
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TEPaul

Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2005, 11:54:30 AM »
I see the clubhouse way over there Andy. It needs to be moved over to that spit of land immediately and if the clubhouse is bigger than that spit of land it needs to be canti-levered out over the sides and over the vertigo production drop!
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TEPaul

Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2005, 11:59:56 AM »
I also believe that the parking lot should be out of sight completely, perhaps a few miles from the clubhouse and everyone should be forced to walk along the cliffs from well beyond where the clubhouse now is to the clubhouse on that spit of land! There will be none of this valet BS and service pampering crap that goes on in this country----if you want to play golf on this site you have to earn it first!!!!
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TEPaul

Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2005, 12:01:51 PM »
What the hell is this place? I think I want to buy it!
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A_Clay_Man

Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2005, 12:03:05 PM »
But then you'd miss the opportunity to install quaint little roads.
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Andy Hughes

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Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2005, 12:03:14 PM »
Well Tom, that would be a cool place for a clubhouse.  I don't envy the poor guy who has to move that fort stone by stone though...
While a little cantilevering is always nice, you sure I can't convince you to put the 19th hole out on that spit of land, with the green extending out with that bulge to the left?
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NAF

Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2005, 12:43:21 PM »
This is North Foreland Golf Club, north of Sandwich in Broadstairs in a corner of Kent.  It is a Fowler and Simpson design but I reckon it changed mightily over the war years and was not put back together.  Still, I've never been there but told there are a few gem holes I've been told.  The course is downland on top of big chalk cliffs so it most likely drains well.

I recently visited Walmer and Kingsdown (which is south of Deal) which is a similar type course.  The scenery and views across the Channel and to the below beaches are stunning.  Unfortunately that course has the look of Tom Dunn and not James Braid who is the credited architect.  Many of the holes at W&K are built into the side of a hill.

If anyone goes to the Ryder Cup in May, I think North Foreland is probably worth a peak if one has some free time.

NAF
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TEPaul

Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2005, 01:06:24 PM »
"you sure I can't convince you to put the 19th hole out on that spit of land, with the green extending out with that bulge to the left?"

Andy:

Ok, you convinced me. But if you change your mind about that clubhouse out there I expect you to carry it out there brick by brick or stone by stone! And while you're at it I'd appreciate it if you'd be damn quick about it, as I might be over there as early as May!
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Mark_Rowlinson

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Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2005, 06:39:53 PM »
It's very exposed to the wind and well drained, so it can get hard and decidedly fast.  Henry Longhurst won his first competition here (on the 9-hole course).  I can't remember whether it was used as a final qualifying venue for the most recent Sandwich Open, but it certainly has been in the past.  I don't think anybody would complain about too many trees here.  Despite the situation, it's a rather featureless course, which makes distance judgement particularly tricky and the slopes can add or subtract a club or two to the calculations.  Golf in the raw, but good of its kind.
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ian

Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2005, 10:12:57 PM »
I had the good fortune of flying over today to see Tom Paul's changes since he has bought the course.

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RJ_Daley

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Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2005, 10:37:42 PM »
It looks a little bit better than this for golf!

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Doug Siebert

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Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2005, 12:09:54 AM »
TEPaul,

I really don't like the collars of rough you left around those new bunkers on the hole after the new peninsula hole, they are too American and will stop balls from rolling in them on a course I'm sure you'll have maintained in a world class version of fast-n-firm!

Plus, I think that translucent crystal bridge you constructed to get to that peninsula looks much too Trumpy for my tastes ;)
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Andy Hughes

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Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2005, 08:40:56 AM »
Ha! Good stuff Ian (though you left out the back left portion of the green  ::))
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Zack Kelly

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Re:Does this look like good golf to you?
« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2005, 08:52:49 AM »
Quote from: Tom Huckaby on January 20, 2005, 11:15:24 AM
sure, why not?  I bet the views are pretty spectacular.  Of course I'd love to put a tee inside that fort and a green out on that little peninsula (or vice versa), but we can only dare to dream.

 ;D
I'd have to agree what great views the peninsula should definelty be used
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