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Mike Nuzzo

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Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« on: August 07, 2002, 06:06:04 AM »
Congratulations once again to the Burroughs and their new little queen.

Is that Papazian Hills I see below?

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Dan Grossman

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Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2002, 07:35:54 AM »
Need more clues.
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Mike Nuzzo

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Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2002, 07:37:31 AM »
I increased the size a bit to do justice to some of those
greens, while not the revered small type, there are lots of pin locations.

I think I see the high priest of putting to latter-day disciples down there too.



P.S. - hit the refresh button to reload the larger image....
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BK

Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2002, 07:39:43 AM »
From the looks of the brown grass and what appears to be sandy soil, it could very well be my back yard,  :'(

By the way, the greens look monsterous..... :o
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Mike Nuzzo

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Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2002, 08:13:10 AM »
Unfortunately that is not sand, just mediocre imaging.

Members include 4 former PGA Championship victors,
but they pale to the 3 members who've walked on the moon.
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RJ_Daley

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Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2002, 08:15:04 AM »
Roger Houston, we have ignition... 8)
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Allan Long

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Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2002, 08:23:57 AM »
Oh, to be a fly on the locker room wall (either side) here. I bet
the stories that have been told in there were sure winners.
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Brad Klein

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Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2002, 08:26:43 AM »
In the summer of Woodstock, the place was subject to a mood swing, though it was a very close shave with the commish to be.
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SPDB

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Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2002, 08:31:38 AM »
I was almost certain that this course was already
featured on AOTD. Maybe it was the other course at the club

Doesn't matter, i've seen neither.
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Mike Nuzzo

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Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2002, 09:28:00 AM »
Alan -
Yes quite the bunch of winners, or at least low handicappers.

SPDB -
I thought not, but what do I know?

Hopefully Brad will expand on his insight.

This one of the 2 courses gets it's name from the body of water
to the north, not the location of the "greatest hole on earth"

The owner of was first seen on TV wearing a green jacket,
incidently he was the first televised with one.
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Brad Klein

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Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2002, 09:35:35 AM »
It's tough trying to be clever without being too esoteric.

Since we're dealing with the Cypress Creek Course at Champions GC in Houston, I figured a good reference was a famous U.S. Open there:

-summer of Wodstock: June 1969 (close enough, really)
-mood swing: Orville Moody, winner
-shave: third round leader (I think) Miller Barber who came to last holes with a chance to win
-future commish: Deane Beman, among those (with Rosburg and Geiberger) who tied for 2nd one shot back

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CHrisB

Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2002, 09:56:15 AM »
The 7th green (extreme lower right) is almost 70 yards deep.  After a good Houston thunderstorm, this course is driver, 3-iron all day long.
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Mike Nuzzo

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Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2002, 10:30:22 AM »
The first of my questionable clues..

Scott's new QUEEN -  
Of course their famed song - Champion.

During a thread about Papazian Hills, Gib made a positive
comment about it looks like it had already been built.

The bulk of my clues came from the following article
http://www.golfdigest.com/features/index.ssf?/features/gd200207burke.htmlWhich Scott posted not too long ago.

I forgot about the US Open in '69.
Nice work Brad.

Cheers
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Allan Long

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Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2002, 01:45:00 PM »
Wasn't this also the course where Hogan played his last
competitive round?
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Gib_Papazian

Re: Aerial of the Day #165 - 7 Aug 2002
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2002, 02:50:45 PM »
That was a beautiful article, and one that gave me pangs of jealousy. Oh, how I wish my home club could somehow recapture that feeling of private intimacy before the avalanche of lawsuits and political correctness buried us forever.

It almost makes it worse that I was recently at two of the best . . . . the disparity between what is and what ought to be is a chasm too wide for us to cross.

Perhaps one day Redan Hills (FKA Papazian Hills) will be a reality on the left coast.
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