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RESTORE THE YALE BIARRITZ!
Mike Mosely:
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--- Quote from: Tommy Naccarato on November 20, 2007, 12:20:55 PM ---Yes, absolutely. I think they should restore the 17th green to it's Biarritz form...... ;)
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Tommy, my GCA colleague, I think according to the Banks and Bahto book it is actually a double plateau. ;D
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Wait a minute, I'm confused...the 17th? The banks and bahto book? Huh?
I like the Biarritz at 9 at Yale the way it is. Its cool to putt down and up thew swale and its quite an ingenious way of defending par...couldn't you build a biarritz green (with an internal swale) and make the green surrounds bunkerless? That way the swale would defend par admirably and yet the hole would reward the player who sticks his approach in the correct sector.
ANTHONYPIOPPI:
Mike:
You'll have to forgive the ramblings of our good friends Noel and Tommy. No matter how many times we warn them they insist on drinking the entire bottle of cough medicine before posting.
Bunkerless Biarritz? Bite your tongue - or typing fingers!
Anthony
Geoffrey Childs:
Tony
From Scott Ramsay -
There is a video of the 1934 Connecticut Open at Yale in which the films of #9 clearly show the green both front and rear of the swale.
ANTHONYPIOPPI:
Childs:
That's eight years after the course opened. What's your point?
Yeah, and I keep hearing about this video. The one I received doesn't even play.
Anthony
Geoffrey Childs:
--- Quote from: Anthony Pioppi on November 20, 2007, 07:08:50 PM ---Childs:
That's eight years after the course opened. What's your point?
Yeah, and I keep hearing about this video. The one I received doesn't even play.
Anthony
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Tony
Pay the electric bill and the video will play. You sure do have a long lasting battery on that computer of yours.
The point is I imagine that for at least 73 years the 9th has been maintained as green for the entire 63 yards front to back.
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