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Paul_Turner

Cart Path Hall of Shame
« on: December 02, 2002, 10:31:26 AM »
or buggy paths as we like to call them.  

I mean how many do you need!?  It looks like spaghetti junction down there!

This is the 2nd at Camberley Heath, a lesser known Colt heathland course.

Let's see some more pics for the Cart Path Hall of Shame.


See the similarity to some of the Harborne bunkers, cut into an upslope?



The super green surface.

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Rick Shefchik

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Re: Cart Path Hall of Shame
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2002, 11:23:55 AM »
That path runs so close to the green, it's kind of surprising they didn't build a drive-through so you could just drop your ball in the cup without ever getting off your ass.
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Mike Benham

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Re: Cart Path Hall of Shame
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2002, 11:38:33 AM »
Rick -

That would be "arse" as they like to them ...
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Dave_Miller

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Re: Cart Path Hall of Shame
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2002, 12:00:25 PM »
Paul:

If I knew how to post pictures here I would do so and give you
More than a few to look at.

However, I believe that every cart path everywhere belongs in the cart path Hall of Shame

Cheers,
Dave
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Scott_Burroughs

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Re: Cart Path Hall of Shame
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2002, 01:30:31 PM »
The hole itself looks quite good otherwise.  I didn't know there were cartpaths in the U.K. other than at Nicklaus' Gleneagles.  If everyone walks, why are they there?  Maintenance paths?
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Paul_Turner

Re: Cart Path Hall of Shame
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2002, 03:22:57 PM »
Scott

New(ish) foreign owners who don't want to walk, or want to entertain their clients in a buggy.  The course is quite undulating but not hilly.  

They also added a stupid pond on the 16th that forces most to lay up at 200yds.  We gained a beautiful, plastic stork on a rock though ???

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Jeff Mingay

Re: Cart Path Hall of Shame
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2002, 05:38:44 PM »
I hate to broadcast it, but Highlands Links has some very poorly routed cart paths.

The 9th there is a modified Alps hole of sorts, with the green set in a dell and obscured by a ridge. I don't have any photos to post, but imagine a cart path slicing across the hillside fronting the 17th green at Prestwick or the 3rd at the National Golf Links of America and you get mental image of the approach to Highlands Links' 9th green!  

It's a travesty.

Prior to 1997, Highlands Links was strictly walking only. When they introduced carts to the course, they installed a continuous cart path. The paths scar the course horribly, but the reality is, annual rounds have tripled since riding became fashionable in Ingonish.

Course maintenance was so poorly funded during the early 1990s, Highlands Links was on the verge of extinction. So the golf carts have helped... the paths just need to be re-routed.

Someday?
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brad_miller

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Re: Cart Path Hall of Shame
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2002, 05:51:53 PM »
Jeff, maybe a small chapter in your book, please hire a GCA when installing cart paths on a course that was built without. Many times, only some better planning and viewing from many different angles would prevent good-great golf holes from finding their way onto the "cart path Hall of Shame"

Many added cart paths that I have seen would become MUCH less visable with a little "tweaking" This is certainly the case a my favorite Kansas course.
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Doug Wright

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Re: Cart Path Hall of Shame
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2002, 08:56:33 PM »
One of the many sick things about me
is I seem to be able to recall old GCA
threads that are similar if not identical
to current ones. I'm sure this will change
once I assume "Senior" er "Champions"
status next year. Here's another example,
my friend Brad Swanson's lament about
punative cart paths from a couple of months
ago...

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forums2/YaBB.cgi?board=GD1&action=display&num=1033537066

All The Best,
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ian

Re: Cart Path Hall of Shame
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2002, 09:30:33 PM »
One of my favourite finishing holes. The cart path is about 8 feet from the green, and the green is all of 3,000 square feet. There are a lot of bouncing balls, further complicated by OB behind the green.



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Joe Hancock

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Re: Cart Path Hall of Shame
« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2002, 04:00:07 PM »
Why in the world would there be OB behind this green? Is there private property that's not visible to the naked eye?

Joe
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Slag_Bandoon

Re: Cart Path Hall of Shame
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2002, 07:01:41 PM »
Pebble Beach
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