For those of you playing along at home, I'm not sure if anyone has taken the time to save any of the TOPO images to their home computer and then blow them up to a larger size.
If you have, I'd like to get some opinions on #6.
You will note that it seems to climb 80? feet or so in the first 175 yards from the tee.
What do people think of this? Is this hole workable for the modern game?
Can anyone name another hole they are familiar with that rises so abruptly and so quickly?
It surely is daunting and it must have been terrifying in 1916.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Mike;
Personally, I think the blind, uphill shot would be a hell of a lot of fun. Most of us here might. In the context of a public course, I only flash back to the dressing down I receive in public circles when I tell people I play out of Lederach.
It would require some sort of a directional-maybe a barber pole like effect at the hill crest or a tree well in the distance-in order to provide the correct line of play. Remember, we are talking about a public course, where there will be first time players, and not caddies, and whereas people can aim at a smokestack at, say, Garden City's 4th, here, the situation requires different. I haven't been to Pebble, but doesn't the 8th hole there feature some sort of directional for the tee shot?
Also, the woods to the right require thought as well. This is more of a detail question, but do you think the area would be cleared of underbrush? I can imagine golfers dumping their tee shots to the right and spending 5 minutes or more looking for lost balls. Led. has cleared out some of the areas to the right of 6, for example, and may be doing so on 11.
Let me know what you think.