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JNagle

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Metairie Country Club & Katrina
« on: May 11, 2006, 03:40:46 PM »
There was a post a few weeks ago about Metairie Country Club and the impact of Katrina on the course.  Well now that we have figured out how to post photos, we can share some glimpses of the course.

Metairie - 1947

http://www.forsedesign.net/Photos/aerial-1949.jpg

Metairie - 2004

http://www.forsedesign.net/Photos/MCC%20GOLF%20COURSE.jpg

Metairie - Just after Katrina

http://www.forsedesign.net/Photos/GoogleEarth-Metairie-postKatrina.jpg

Metairie hole 8 - six days after Katrina

http://www.forsedesign.net/Photos/Eight%20Green.jpg

Metairie Hole 8 - Before Katrina

http://www.forsedesign.net/Photos/Hole-8.jpg

Metairie Hole 13 - Fall 2005

http://www.forsedesign.net/Photos/Hole13-postKatrina.jpg

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mike_malone

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Re:Metairie Country Club & Katrina
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2006, 04:07:02 PM »
 Jim,


    This kind of topic may not lead to much discussion but I ,for one ,go back to these  photos again and again. Thank you for posting.

 
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BCrosby

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Re:Metairie Country Club & Katrina
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2006, 04:28:17 PM »
I don't know where I read it, but I thought there was some talk about closing down Metairie because it is so close to the water table.

Any truth to that?

 
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JNagle

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Re:Metairie Country Club & Katrina
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2006, 04:33:46 PM »
That is the first we have heard about closing the course.  We were just down there during the Zurich Open and that was never mentioned.  I believe the plan to build a levee around the course was shot down.  Not sure where that is going.  The entire course was lifted so  ground water is not an issue.  In fact the day we were there in rained nearly two inches that morning and that only delayed the beginning of a Pro/Am.  In fact walking the fairways was not bad at all.  The water moved through the sand and drainage.  The club has had carts on the fairway the day after 5+ inches of rain.
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TEPaul

Re:Metairie Country Club & Katrina
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2006, 04:42:19 PM »
Jim:

Is that a "short" I see completely surrounded by bunkering in the 1947 aerial? Is it hole #8?
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JNagle

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Re:Metairie Country Club & Katrina
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2006, 04:50:11 PM »
TEPaul -

That is the "Short" hole.  

Metairie is patterned after holes from Nassau, Piping Rock, The Old Course, Shinnecock (Raynor's) and NGLA.  All we had was a list of the inspired courses, not the specific holes.  

The Hole names are as follows.

HOLE #   NAME
1-   SOUTH BEND
2-   LONG
3-   SHINNECOCK
4-   PUNCHBOWL
5-   POND
6-   NARROWS
7-   EDEN
8-   SPECTACLES
9-   ROAD
10-   THE NATIONAL
11-   PRINCIPLE’S NOSE
12-   REDAN
13-   (SHORT) ROAD (ETTE)
14-   (DO0UBLE) PLATEAU
15-   NASSAU
16-   OAKS
17-   SHORT
18-   HOME   
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