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Troy Alderson

Pasture Golf
« on: December 13, 2005, 06:05:17 PM »
All you GCA guys are just too much into high maintenance golf courses.  If you really want to go natural check out this web site on the ultimate golf experience by the Pasture Golf Association.

www.pasturegolf.com

Golf the ultimate way it was meant to be played.

Troy
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JNC Lyon

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Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2005, 06:12:06 PM »
I believe that a GCA fave, Painswick, is reviewed on the website.  The course is high on my must-see list on my maiden voyage to the British Isles.
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RJ_Daley

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Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2005, 06:19:29 PM »
Troy, you must make a point of playing the 9 hole, famous Danneborg CC.  non-members green fees are $2.00 per day.  The couple below are the Club President, greens chairperson, superintendent, clubhouse manager, and wrangler staff.  The second photo is me hitting 7 iron to the signature hole named bullpen, where the putting sand surface is contained inside the corrogated above ground watertank. The Swilcan burn bridge can also be seen.  :P ;D 8)


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Troy Alderson

Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2005, 06:19:13 PM »
RJ,

Looks like you were playing in the high winds.  Are all the greens sand?  How did they putt?

JNC, I will check out Painswick on the web.

I believe Alfie Ward would like the Pasture Golf Association.

Thank you both.

Troy
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Wayne Freeman

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Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2005, 01:17:43 AM »
Oakhurst Links near the Greenbrier may be the first golf course built in the U.S.-  a nine holer that was restored by Cupp after the original drawings were found.  Today, you can still experience playing with hickory shafts (only 4 clubs allowed), sand tees, gutta percha balls, and fairways cut by the sheep that graze there. Don't miss it if you're in the area.  It's a lot of fun.  
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Norbert P

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Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2005, 01:34:34 AM »
   Oxymoron alert !

The "Other" Gleneagles in Brora, Scotland is the finest pasture golf I've ever played. It's reputation is so shabby that Richard Goodale won't play it.

Next greatest is Kuhuku in Hawaii (Oahu)

Featherie Banks which No Longer Exists because it was never really recognized as a golf course.  (I designed it on an EPA Superfund site)

Has anybody played Ratho Links, or Dover in Tasmania?  They're on my list.  
Or Coober Pedy Opal Mine Golf Course in mainland Oz!?

 Most venerable honours go to Alfie Ward's Arbory Brae in Abington, Scotland.   Definitely gets my vote for the 'Phoenix from the Flame award.
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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2005, 11:42:53 AM »
How about Sheep Pasture GC in Lillooet, British Columbia ?

"The rather unique Sheep Pasture Golf Course is located on a working sheep ranch on Texas Creek Road, a few kilometers down the Fraser River from Lillooet. The 9-hole par 35 course (2,722 yards) is played while surrounded by grazing sheep. Tournaments are held in summer, including the Bo Peep, the Sheep Pasture Open, and the First Nations Tournament."
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RJ_Daley

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Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2005, 11:54:51 AM »
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Has anybody played Ratho Links, or Dover in Tasmania?  They're on my list.
Or Coober Pedy Opal Mine Golf Course in mainland Oz!?

Aussie alert: The one and only Slag Bandoon is travelling to your shores.  He is the best Yankee representative we have to throw at your lot.  What do you expect from a guy that names his dream course on a superfund site, "Featherie Banks"? ;D  I reckon that todays opal mine was yesterdays coprolite field.  And we all know who is king of the Coprolitians.

Norby, you will not be allowed back into this country without an anthology and album of photos that chronical your trip down under.  
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Tony_Chapman

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Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2005, 01:48:30 PM »
I'm a fan of this bunker:


It's just to the left of my favorite green site:


At my favorite pasture:
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ForkaB

Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2005, 02:17:55 PM »
Quote from: Norbert Painter on December 15, 2005, 01:34:34 AM
  Oxymoron alert !

The "Other" Gleneagles in Brora, Scotland is the finest pasture golf I've ever played. It's reputation is so shabby that Richard Goodale won't play it.


Thanks for the slag, Slag!  Hard to make it down to Jimmy Miller's home course when The Quiet Piggy is serving monkfish buttocks in sheep dip a la Dunrobin.

However, I did follow your footsteps to Mackenzie's Dalmunzie, didn't I.  That deserves at least a modicum of respect in my book.... :'(

Enjoy Oz O wise one.
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Alfie

Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2005, 07:01:57 PM »
Troy,

You're right. I love the message that Pasture Golf tries to put over. Everything golfable just doesn't HAVE to be a "Classic" !
And any hint of "snobbery" at any course should be dealt with by a four stroke penalty.................with a birch !

Slag,

You were posted missing a couple of weeks back (on here).
How many times do I have have to thank you for your compliments ? You know, I came across your GCA business card which you gave to me at Arbory, so long ago now. It's now on my "honours" board along with the other por....sorry, family stuff !
Enjoy Oz, and say hello to Greg Ramsay if you visit Ratho (you must go to Ratho !)


RJ Daley,

great pics - but the coo HAS to go !

Alfie

ps ; anyone looking for a good read might try Curtis Gillespie's - Playing Through      www.simonsays.co.uk
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Tony_Muldoon

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Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2005, 07:21:47 PM »
Evening Alfie, where do  you get the energy to build all day and then appear here after midnight!

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forums2/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=20645

I believe that's 25p in the bank!

PS playing Epping GC saturday. Nowhere near London does more to encorage family golf, shame there's nowhere flat enought for a family to stand together for a group photgraph! Automatice irrigation means one guy going out to do the greens with the towed boser at the same time every day.
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Chris Parker

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Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2005, 12:58:57 AM »
Quote from: Norbert Painter on December 15, 2005, 01:34:34 AM
Has anybody played Ratho Links, or Dover in Tasmania?

Norbert,

Nope, I haven't played Ratho, but it's on my list too.  Here's a picture my sister took of it on a trip to Australia a few years ago.  



Note the fenced-off square green...
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RJ_Daley

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Re:Pasture Golf
« Reply #13 on: December 16, 2005, 11:21:56 AM »
Criekie, ewe's a little beauty! :o

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