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Aidan Bradley

Chambers Bay Teasers
« on: June 26, 2007, 05:24:13 PM »










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SPDB

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2007, 05:44:38 PM »
Incredible! The golf course doesn't look that bad either.
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Evan Fleisher

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2007, 05:46:15 PM »
Aidan,

Your photographs are some of the most stunning shots I've ever seen.  Thanks for sharing...
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K. Krahenbuhl

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2007, 05:58:37 PM »
Wow...those pictures have me looking for flights to Seattle.  Thanks for sharing them!!
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Tim Pitner

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2007, 06:01:01 PM »
It doesn't look much like a links course.  I don't mean that as any sort of put down--to me, it just doesn't looks like a links, faux or otherwise.
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Garland Bayley

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2007, 06:04:51 PM »
Quote from: Aidan Bradley on June 26, 2007, 05:24:13 PM

#2



#17 green



#12 fairway foreground, #15 in background


#16 from behind green


Overview with #14 green in left foreground


another view of #2
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"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

Marty Bonnar

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2007, 06:10:19 PM »
"On a golf course, i-in Washington,
stood a lonesome pine,"

Now that's what I call a GOOD golf course tree.

Please tell me there's a Hole called 'Sentinel' or 'Lone Warrior'.

I just noticed - there's even a RAILWAY!!!!

Nice going, John S. and the Boys!

FBD.
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Washed the people coal-black from the hole in the ground.

Gary Slatter

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2007, 06:17:56 PM »
Quote from: Tim Pitner on June 26, 2007, 06:01:01 PM
It doesn't look much like a links course.  I don't mean that as any sort of put down--to me, it just doesn't looks like a links, faux or otherwise.
the railway to the right of #16 more than makes up for anything lacking, it looks great!
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Gary Slatter
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George Pazin

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2007, 06:20:25 PM »
Love the railway.

No fair on the rest, the photographer clearly can't take a bad photo.

 :)
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Brad Klein

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2007, 06:26:51 PM »
Martin, it's not a pine, it's a Douglas fir!

The active train line is so great. When I was there trains were running and it added so much, along with folks on the walking trail. Made it feel like we were in Scotland.
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Aidan Bradley

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2007, 06:29:57 PM »
It's not that difficult to create a good image when you are given the opportunity to photograph a golf course like Chambers Bay. It is a wonderful facility in a beautiful setting that only will improve with time. It's more than worth the price of admission and should provide memories that will last until you play it again. IMHO.
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Garland Bayley

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2007, 06:31:28 PM »
Martin,

The hole the fir stands behind is named "Lone Fir".
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Marty Bonnar

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2007, 06:33:32 PM »
Brad,
I couldn't tell from the pics the exact genus/species/cultivar so plumped for the generic 'Pine' solely to allow me to use the old Laurel and Hardy song lyrics!

Are we to assume that you have been more - ahem - intimately acquainted with said arboreal specimen???

What kind of trains use the line? Do tell me they're still using Steam in the PacNW!?!?!

Garland,
LONE FIR!!! Fan-bloody-tastic!!!!

cheers,
FBD.
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The White River runs dark through the heart of the Town,
Washed the people coal-black from the hole in the ground.

Garland Bayley

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #13 on: June 26, 2007, 06:34:44 PM »
No Martin,

Brad is just a quick learner. He was corrected for calling it a pine too.
 :)
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"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

Dan Herrmann

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #14 on: June 26, 2007, 09:42:58 PM »
Brad's review in Golfweek suggested lightning protection for the (fir).  If I'm right, Seattle almost never gets thunderstorms, does it?

But now, after seeing the fir, it does need protection.

It's stunning.

So - are there PHL-SEA nonstops?
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Daryl David

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #15 on: June 26, 2007, 10:24:54 PM »
Yes, lightning is rare in the Seattle area, however there was a storm on Sunday in which 3 people were injured from separate strikes.  Doesn't happen often and generally catches people off guard.

PS: US Airways has 2 non-stops a day to Seattle.  Chambers Bay is probably about 40 minutes from the airport.
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Tiger_Bernhardt

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #16 on: June 26, 2007, 11:59:32 PM »
As always Aidan provides us with a glimpse into his beautiful work. Thank you agian for sharing with us your work product. We are blessed to have a man at the top of his profession share and discuss his thoughts with us. I am blown away once again. If the Jones jr. company got you out there, then my hats off to them for haivng the vision to bring in the best. I am happy you are part of showcasing this most wonderful project. Ok here is the first volley to Mucci, sight unseen. How does this compare to Rees's work at Florence aka Sand Pines. lolololololol
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Andrew Balakshin

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #17 on: June 27, 2007, 12:12:34 AM »
Wow! I wish I could take pictures like that...
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Jeff Doerr

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #18 on: June 27, 2007, 12:18:36 AM »
Andrew,

Our pictures just don't pop in the same way... :'(

I give this course another good wet winter and a glorious spring time for all the dunes to gow in past the Cat tracks and it will look like it has been there for years!
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John Kavanaugh

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #19 on: June 27, 2007, 12:29:51 AM »
Aidan,

Have you ever taken a picture while looking up?  I would love to see a balls eye view before it was hit.
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Jim Nugent

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #20 on: June 27, 2007, 02:23:05 AM »
I still hope to see Aidan's pictures one day of Ballyneal, Cape Kidnappers, Pac Dunes and other Doak courses.  
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W.H. Cosgrove

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #21 on: June 27, 2007, 09:03:12 AM »
Occasional lightening does strike in the area but rarely like the monster stuff in the midwest.......however the lone fir stands on the shores of the Narrows in Puget Sound.  

Anyone ever see the film of a collapsing suspension bridge?   Galloping Gertie or her offspring are visible only from that spot on Chambers Bay.  Wind in winter gathers to the south and then is forced through the narrows leading to some pretty exciting storms and high winds.  

Hopefully Pierce County officials have a policy with LLoyds of London for wind loss of that tree.
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Mike Hendren

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #22 on: June 27, 2007, 09:23:10 AM »
Cos,

Please tell me they named a hole after Tubby, the poor pooch that went down with the bridge:



I'll be in Seattle the week of Aug. 27th and the only question is how many times I'll drive down to Tacoma.  

Mike
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W.H. Cosgrove

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #23 on: June 27, 2007, 10:32:52 AM »
No Tubby hasn't been yet honored on the course.  

But then Rapoport once suggested over an after dinner cigar that CB be named "Broken Bridge".  Alas the county officials went for the safer Chambers Bay.  

They could have opted for several names that would have made for better shirts and hats....bootleggers beach would also have worked!  I guess they didn't want to go that edgy.

Also Ryan Moore announced in this mornings paper a skins game for October with Michael Putnam, Bubba Watson and Aaron Baddeley.  
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Garland Bayley

Re:Chambers Bay Teasers
« Reply #24 on: June 27, 2007, 10:38:17 AM »
Cos,

Do you have the date of that skins game?
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"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne
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