A Restoration Triple Bogey

[Robert Mercer Deruntz]

On a course filled with restoration birdies, somehow this one was a massive miss.  This template hole could still be improved.  The whole left side of the green is extremely severe, but the right which is not maintained as green should be.  

[john_stiles]

RMD,

I wouldn't call it a triple bogey, more like a DNS.

They did not attempt to restore in total when the bunker work was undertaken.

It has oft been discussed to expand the 15th green back out to the full fillpad.  Whether that will be done or not remains to be seen.  The next few weeks will be telling with respect to greens work.  

The 15th green isn't too severe but is very difficult.  It's a razor's edge at this green as someone described a few aspects of the course on a previous thread.

Like another famous hole by someone who didn't engineer or build template holes,  it is a race to see how few strokes it takes you to get below the hole.

[Michael_Stachowicz]

Is this the Road Hole?  If it is, it is the one that stuck to me when I played Lookout Mountain as falling short of a restoration.  It certainly has the potential to be one of the more unique Road Hole greens.  

That being said, it wasn't a real restoration, I think all they did were the bunkers and are now looking at the greens.

[john_stiles]

The 15th is the Road Hole.  The approach shots to the green could be more interesting (my opinion) if the entire fill pad was returned to green surface.  An area at the front right, next to the bunker, is closely mown fringe area as opposed to green surface.  The area is large enough to affect the play at the green.

Two greens, such as the 11th alps/punchbowl and 17th double plateau, were reworked when the bunker work was previously undertaken by the club/Silva.

Previous work did look to restore the bunkers to more of a Banks/Raynor look and add bunkers shown in the original routing plan.  Some bunkers were not completed in the original work or some may have been abandoned in the early years.  

[Robert Mercer Deruntz]

The right side of the green not being used as green seemed really good.  The the front bunker doesn't work very well.  Much to big and shallow, and it seems to be located too far left.   This hole has great potential that really should not have been too difficult to have achieved; hence, my thought that it is a restoration triple bogey.