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Ray Tennenbaum

Architects (NJ) writeup, pics
« on: July 23, 2007, 09:03:47 AM »
I went to that outing back in May & chatted with Kay & Whitten --

http://brooklynks.blogspot.com/2007/07/blog-post.html

the photos enlarge nicely if you click on'em.  

(lower down you'll find a little completely non-golf-related story about riding the Guzzi down the Blue Ridge Parkway -- after a slow start, it picks up.)

D_Malley

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Re:Architects (NJ) writeup, pics
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2007, 10:08:29 AM »
i guess that hole pictured in article (#3 @ Architects) is a replica of #2 on merion east.  it seems to have some similar features.


Michael Blake

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Re:Architects (NJ) writeup, pics
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2007, 10:46:50 AM »
I played Architects for the first time last Friday and it exceeded my expectations.   It was a very fun course to play and it seemed like every hole just got better and better.

Cool greens, fun short par fours with options, nice angles into greens, and easily walkable.

My favorites were:

#2 CB Macdonald uphill par 3--great pedistal green

#7 AWT par 4.  dogleg right. cut off what you want.  you can't really see it from the tee, but the fairway opens up out to the right.  (didn't care for the chocolate drops on the hole)

#9 Ross par 4.  Hit the best drive of my life down the right side only to have it land in the lone fairway bunker.  great green complex with pond on left.

#10 Thomas par 4.  I assume similar to his #10 at Riviera.  Bascially three options off the tee:  short and straight down the narrow fairway, bomb it down the right side of fairway to carry bunker 230yds out (wide open fairway over it), or try to bomb it over same bunker only to push it right into the rough, short of fescue (which I did but seemed to be best angle into green and only 100 out).

#13 Mackenzie par 5.  I think my favorite hole.  I guess similar to #13 at Augusta.  From the tee, a beautiful looking hole with the huge bunkers behind the green.  They're set into a hill and the white faces look big even from 500yds away on the tee.  Straight drive, pond on left in play, bunkers on right (in play for for huge drive).  2nd shot--go for it or lay up? 225yds to narrow green with creek in front, bunkers behind, trouble everywhere--lay up.  Cool three tiered green.


George: Yes.  #3 is a Hugh Wilson "tribute."


As for a prior thread regarding trees on the 18th.  Yes there are trees planted way down the right side in between the end of fairway/green and the clubhouse patio to the right.  They are not in play and only look like shrubs now, a few feet high.  As stated by Steve? they look to eventually provide the patio with some shade as there is none whatsoever.


I look forward to playing there again.

David Stamm

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Re:Architects (NJ) writeup, pics
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2007, 11:44:49 AM »
Whitten, dean of the dirt? Hmm...

Is this course public or private?
"The object of golf architecture is to give an intelligent purpose to the striking of a golf ball."- Max Behr

D_Malley

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Re:Architects (NJ) writeup, pics
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2007, 11:54:12 AM »
i did see that # 3 is the Hugh Wilson Tribute, but does it seem like an attempt to replicate #2 of merion east.  the pics seem to look very similar.

K. Krahenbuhl

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Re:Architects (NJ) writeup, pics
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2007, 12:21:24 PM »

David Stamm

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Re:Architects (NJ) writeup, pics
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2007, 12:26:24 PM »
Thanks Kyle.
"The object of golf architecture is to give an intelligent purpose to the striking of a golf ball."- Max Behr

Ray Tennenbaum

Re:Architects (NJ) writeup, pics
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2007, 01:35:18 AM »
Whitten, dean of the dirt? Hmm...

I don't agree with everything he writes & at times I find him exasperating but give him credit: in the modern era, he was the first writer to cover architecture seriously on a regular basis.

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