Novelty items on golf courses

[jg7236]

I agree....

[Steve Pieracci]

How about the apple bucket on the 16th tee at Tobacco Road?  That was a nice touch.  

[SPDB]

A round at Carnegie Abbey will take you (almost literally) through a Revolutionary War-era burial ground of Hessian soldiers, with small crude (unmarked) headstones. The course is set over the site of the Battle of Bloody Run.

[Tim Gavrich]

I remember the old plantation-house foundation at Wachesaw too.  It afforded a nice historical interlude before a very nice hole.

How does everyone feel about railroad ties as barriers from water, bunkers, anything?  I really like railroad ties, and I think Strantz had the best, with Dye's close behind.  For example, at True Blue, they add a nice rugged feel to the place.  I also seem to recall some from Tobacco road, if memory serves.

[Jim Adkisson]

Sunriver/Crosswater course has a pioneer cemetary immediately adjacent to the left side of the 11th hole...it sure beats the upscale housing on the right side for ambiance.

[Jason McNamara]

Adjacent to the golf course were working oil drills that echoed thru the woods.  

There's a working pumpjack on #17 (iirc) at Wildcat-Highlands in Houston.  Probably 50 yds L of the fairway.

Jason

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Adare Manor Golf Club (definitely not the RTJ Hotel Course) has both a graveyard and an Abbey.  http://www.adaremanorgolfclub.com/course.asp
I was last there in the early 60s!  Don't remember a thing about it.

[John_Cullum]

It's nice how we refer to cemeteries as novelty items.

[Tony_Muldoon]

I've played a course in Kent with an uphil par 4 and in the centre of the fairway there's a old Victorian bath house, roofless but still with it's tiles, with a natural spring running through it. There are trees behind it and you have to choose to play left or right of all this.  The course was called Moatlands but has since changed name - but the above is the most exciting thing about it.  It's the sort of thing you'd like to dawdle over and explore.

[Sean_A]

How about the apple bucket on the 16th tee at Tobacco Road?  That was a nice touch.  

Steve

I think we followed your group on the last day of Dixie Cup.  I didn't notice any apples in the bucket.

Ciao

Sean

[Sean_A]

The wooden barrel of apples near the 16th tee at Tobacco Road

Ah, two ball busters in front of me at The Road.  No wonder the apples were gone.  I thought they were happy to see me!

Ciao

Sean

[Michael Wharton-Palmer]

I will go with the GOONERS as well..really nice to see that the only Englishmen on the field were playing for the Spanish side!!!!!!!

Still I suppose some supporters dont really care if the English team they support, basically speaks French..as long as they are winning...OH that's right for most of this season the Gooners have not been winning!!

However,in all seriousness , what a tremendous amount of young talent...truly breathtaking..as much as I hate to say it watch out in about 3 yeras time.......

[Tom Huckaby]

Michael:

I'm an American, so the team can speak Jupiterian for all I care.  And don't mess with THE GREAT HENRY, as my son calls him.

You're right though, as bleak as the present seems to be besides this glorious win at Madrid, the future does look bright.  VERY bright.

 

[Craig_Rokke]

Around the Philadelphia area, there are a few courses with old family cemetaries on them. Cherry Valley CC in Princeton, NJ has one just behind the 16th green dating from the 18th century.

Occassionally (and admittedly more freaky) you'll come across an isolated grave on a golf course. Especially eerie when it's in the woods to the right of a hole and your slice finds it - found that one out during my third time looping through Lookaway. It's to the right of the ninth fairway.

While a tombstones may not be the ideal "novelty item" on a course, they are certainly a peculiar find. Kyle, if you've played Golden Oaks in Fleetwood, Pa, perhaps you've taken note of the cluster of grave markers flanking the practice green. I believe that a number of homesteaders rest there, although the markers are not easily seen.

[Dale_McCallon]

I noticed today at my home course, Miller Memorial (Murray, KY) that there is a rusted out car in an out of bounds area just off the course.

Surely this qualifies it as a Hillybilly Tour stop.

[Joe Hancock]

Dale,

Only if the car has some trees growing up through it does it qualify for the HT.

Joe

[Chris Moore]

There is a chunk of a meteorite on the golf course at Audubon Park here in New Orleans.  I think it was placed there in 1888 for the World Exposition, before thecourse was built.  The course has had several face-lifts, but the meteorite has remained.

[Sean Leary]

My home course has a brick grain silo on the left side of the 15th hole, left over from the Boeing family farm...

[Steve Pieracci]

The wooden barrel of apples near the 16th tee at Tobacco Road

Ah, two ball busters in front of me at The Road.  No wonder the apples were gone.  I thought they were happy to see me!

Ciao

Sean

Yes, two indeed .  I believe Brian and I were playing together.    

Steve