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Yannick Pilon

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So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« on: July 06, 2006, 07:46:47 AM »
...and I am in a meeting with the course planning committee.

We just finished redoing all of their bunkers on the first nine of one of their course, and we are in this workshop to decide what we are going to do with the back nine....

They want a big splash of water on the final hole, but the costs are going to be huge so they ask: "What can we do in the fairway to make it more interesting?"

So I go, almost reluctantly: "The fairway is extra wide.  Why don't we put a central fairway bunker?"  That's when face started lightning up and people started jumping up and down... in excitment!

One guy even said: "That's great, it will make people think off the tee, we don't have that here!"

I thought I was suddenly in heaven!

Then we went on talking about central bunkers, bunkers as optical illusions, bunkers inducing fear but easy to carry, and letting the grass grow in non-play zones....

What a night!  This job is great!

Just thought I would share my excitment! ;D
www.yannickpilongolf.com - Golf Course Architecture, Quebec, Canada

Marc Haring

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Re:So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2006, 08:11:11 AM »
Central bunkers are so simple and yet can make a hole so interesting. Why are they such a rarity?

James Edwards

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Re:So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2006, 08:16:42 AM »
Mark... because higher handicapped members cant understand this concept due to their individual abilities....  They rip one dead straight for the first time in 20 years and it ends up in a bunker in the centre of a fairway.... unfortunately, just a fact of golf, its hard to justify to members.
« Last Edit: July 06, 2006, 08:17:11 AM by James Edwards »
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Eric Franzen

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Re:So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2006, 08:54:56 AM »
Mark... because higher handicapped members cant understand this concept due to their individual abilities....  They rip one dead straight for the first time in 20 years and it ends up in a bunker in the centre of a fairway.... unfortunately, just a fact of golf, its hard to justify to members.

We had central bunkers on two of the holes on my home course. They were easily the most discussed and hated element on a track that has around ten different water hazards. It all came down to remowal of these bunkers on one of the holes around two years ago.
« Last Edit: July 06, 2006, 08:55:23 AM by Eric Franzen »

Joe Hancock

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Re:So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2006, 12:18:12 PM »
Central bunkers are so simple and yet can make a hole so interesting. Why are they such a rarity?

Narrowmindedness. Narrow fairways and narrow corridors aren't conducive to central bunkers where one needs room to navigate around them.

Joe
" What the hell is the point of architecture and excellence in design if a "clever" set up trumps it all?" Peter Pallotta, June 21, 2016

"People aren't picking a side of the fairway off a tee because of a randomly internally contoured green ."  jeffwarne, February 24, 2017

ForkaB

Re:So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2006, 12:29:31 PM »
Mark... because higher handicapped members cant understand this concept due to their individual abilities....  They rip one dead straight for the first time in 20 years and it ends up in a bunker in the centre of a fairway.... unfortunately, just a fact of golf, its hard to justify to members.

James (and Yannick)

When I'm emotionally centered and thinking properly I always aim for those center line bunkers, knowing that my ball has no chance of going where I aim it.  Of course, when I'm emotionally centered and thinking properly I always hit the ball off the middle of the club, and it goes straight down the middle:'(

Golf is such a cruel game......

Lou_Duran

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Re:So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2006, 12:43:20 PM »
Rich,

My strategy precisely, and not too uncommon results.

My first time on The Rawls Course at Texas Tech, #13, 460+ yards par 4, dead into a 25 mph south wind, one small, relatively thin bunker 250+ yards out smack in the middle of an ultra-wide fairway.  My thinking: aim at it and the wind will drift it either right or left of it.  Less than a 10% chance of hitting it dead straight, with even a smaller chance of it reaching 250+ yards into that wind (conditional probability of < 1%).  Result: ball hops into the bunker, I get pissed off, barely get it out, and post a 6 on my card.  Indignation later turns grudgingly to mirth and respect.  Stupid game.  Wicked architect.    

Bill_McBride

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Re:So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2006, 12:48:12 PM »
Lou, I think that's what happened to David Duval when he and Tiger played a match at Sherwood on TV.  One hole had a big pile of rocks dead center in the fairway and Duval aimed right at it and went in!  I guess he thought it would miss!  The story is the rock fell off a truck during construction and Nicklaus just left it there!  This sounds like an urban myth.  ::)

Joel_Stewart

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Re:So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2006, 02:07:13 PM »
Its a good story, wish more green committees "get it".

Here is another story feel good story (humerous) I saw on craigslist.



I trim. I mow the lawn up top to basically look like a pizza slice with a bite taken out. I use clippers for this.

As for the balls and taint I have set up a system that helps me shave them without getting bumps or redness.

I took a balloon, blew it up, lathered it, and then practiced shaving it until I could do so with a surgeon’s precision. It took practice but I finally felt that I had it down after several tries, one crying spell, and the Rocky theme playing in the background.

So I decided last night would be my first ball shaving with the new technique.

So I get naked, do a shot of bourbon, and then strip. Oh shit, the blinds! Okay close them after waving to my neighbor and proceed to ground zero… my bathroom.

Once in the bathroom I put on a headband and start shouting slogans at myself in the mirror.

“Fuck yeah bitch it’s going down”

“Look at you! Is that even hair? Who would want you?”

“Yall fuckers are gonna be smooth!” pointing to my wiry sack.

Out with the bad air…in with the good.

Okay so the tools are now all laid out. Three different razors. Gillette shaving cream. Water is running and Norah Jones is in the CD player. I don’t know why but her voice makes me want to shave my balls. But I digress.

I splash a little cold water on my eggs so the bag will shrivel up. Good, nice and tight.

My hands are shaking like leaves. Drip of sweat coming from my brow, and you bitches questioned the headband; I go in for the first hover stroke.

I can’t do it.

I drop the razor and pace. Fuck! All this prep work! All my training! All those popped balloons!

Do it for the balloons kid, for the balloons. The voice in my head was familiar. Mickey?

I grab the razor (cue inspirational music… you’re the best, arooound. Nothin’ in the world can keep you down!)

I have never spoken in tongues or had an out of body experience but this is what I imagine it is like. I was hitting angles that I never thought possible. I was upside down at one point.

I woke up speaking Latin and had two leg nuggets as smooth as silk. The phone had shaving cream and a couple of pubes on it and there was no more bourbon.

Today, my friends, I have the smoothest sack in DC. It feels like that Viagra commercial when that guy got his confidence back. I am walking into rooms just eager to show my newly shorn sack.

New haircut? Nope, shaved my balls! Did you get that promotion? Nope, silky sack!


You’re the best, around. Nothin’ in the world can keep you down. You’re the best around…..






Joe Hancock

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Re:So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2006, 02:40:47 PM »
Joel,

You cut and pasted (every bit o' pun intended) a story off from craiglist about shaving your nuts? And they say I'm crazy..... ;D

Joe
" What the hell is the point of architecture and excellence in design if a "clever" set up trumps it all?" Peter Pallotta, June 21, 2016

"People aren't picking a side of the fairway off a tee because of a randomly internally contoured green ."  jeffwarne, February 24, 2017

mikes1160

Re:So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2006, 04:01:45 PM »
Joel,

It takes some kind of , uh, "stones", to make a post like that  ;)

Joel_Stewart

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Re:So, yesterday, I'm at this private club...
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2006, 06:21:17 PM »
Shivas:
I like the grass correlation.  

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