An impediment to good to great architecture ?

[Patrick_Mucci]

Has money, and the need to recover one's investment been an impediment to good to great architecture ?

If a high number of rounds per year are necessary for a club to be viable, will the architecture accomodate the need, rather than challenge the golfer ?

[John Kavanaugh]

Pat,

How many of the great courses built in the last ten years were built for profit...Name 5.

[Mike Benham]

John -

The Bandon courses would be three ...

I don't think Pat's question is specific to daily fee courses.


Pat -

Are you making the assumption that good to great architecture equals high cost to design a course?  

Mike

[Glenn Spencer]

John -

The Bandon courses would be three ...

I don't think Pat's question is specific to daily fee courses.


Pat -

Are you making the assumption that good to great architecture equals high cost to design a course?  

Mike

It does not appear that he is. It sounds like he is asking if the need to get people around the golf course has made the architect gunshy about building something that might take more time to traverse. I would certainly think that it has in a lot of cases.

[Kevin_Reilly]

I think speed of play was one consideration with some of the choices at the re-done Harding...bunkering was done in moderation for one thing.