[Mark_Rowlinson]

Did Berthet's woman provide better golf than Thomson's suggestive moundwork and bunkering in Canada?  But what I found curious, good golf course or not, is why a Frenchman would want to copy a French fort.  Every time they thought they were winning along would come a Nelson or a Wellington and knock them down to size.  Why not copy the Maginot Line and build a defenceless course.... with lots of options of going round either side, real strategy.

[John Goodman]

A good point, Mark -

Berthet really took a chance with this - one look at the fortress motif and most French golfers would speedily surrender . . . or maybe just offer to collaborate on the design . . .  

[Forrest Richardson]

I applaud the work.

Desmond, I am certain, is quite jealous wherever he may be...but I suspect he would find the concept — here just a matter of duplication — a bit less entertaining that the metaphorical work of Stone Harbor, Lippo, etc.

It takes balls to do something like this. I'll bet they hurt by now.

[Doug Siebert]

Near the woman-leg 15th hole (where long and longer patches of grass delineate a stocking top and a garter), in an indelicate, unplayable little marsh, the artist has planted aromatic sprays of lavender. "The purpose of rough," Berthet says, "is to make the golfer hesitate. Then you have only a few minutes to find your ball. It is seldom enough time."

Agh!  Berthet is actually DESIGNING for slow play!  A lot of architects do it unintentionally or have no choice due to the land they were given.  But it was a conscious choice with him!

Sorry, based on that, I have to take away the artistic license I was letting him use via TEPaul's "big world" theory.  Its a big world, but it isn't big enough to allow architects to deliberately encourage slow play!

[Jeff_Brauer]

Whew! A quick read through the thread, and it isn't about me!

[Paul Carey]

I want to hate it but I like the attitude and the boldness of it...

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