Amazing Greens

[Brendan Dolan]

The 15th at Erin Hills is a pretty neat green.  The hole is a drive and pitch type par four with the green perched well above the fairway.  The left half of the green is a punchbowl while the right half of the green slopes off on the front, back, and right sides.  In the middle the two portions of the green are divided by a large ridge.  If you are on the wrong side two putting is difficult, but with some creativity it may be possible.  Some other greens of interest at Erin Hills are the 3rd, 8th, 9th, 10th, 14th.

Brendan

[Kye Goalby]

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[TEPaul]

Kye:

Your 'infantile website'??

Take it easy on yourself pal, life is tough enough as it is!  

[Norbert P]

 So, Sitwell Jr. is already up on the board . . .

and 17 @ Apache is pretty amazing if not crazing, but . . . this one is pretty bold from a distance.  (Never been there - don't know the contours)

 
6th @ Greywolf in Canada

[Jordan Wall]

Norbert,

That would be Greywolf, no?

I remember it from a video game a few years back, of all things.  I haven't heard too much discussion on the course.  It would be interesting if someone could chime in about it, and that green in particular, since the picture is up.

[Peter Nomm]

I always love the 8th at Sand Hills.  From an approach shot standpoint, from the surroundings, the chip shots, and the putting.  One of my favorite holes of all time.  

The opportunity to use the contours to help a recovery shot are many.  Really a cool spot.

[Chip Gaskins]

Does anybody have a pic of this hole as seen from the fairway?  

like i said before, #8 was my favorite green on the course, so i took a few extra pics.  here you go:







by the way, that picture from morgan's hill (minus all the golf carts) looks awesome!

[JMorgan]

1.Who designed/built the greens for Langford and Moreau?
2.How much of the Perry & Press Maxwell green work still exists at Augusta?

Bumping these queries.

[Sean_A]

Chip, Adam & Daryl

Thanks for the extra pix.  Ballyneal definitely wins my most intriguing course award for 2007.  It all looks so familiar, but I don't know it.  Its a very odd sense of nearly deja vu.  If one or some of you would be willing to do a photo tour of the course I would be much obliged.

I have always had a strong affection for the 7th at Pennard.  It follows mush the same pattern as many greens which are in sections, but this is a very small version.  I still haven't figured out how to use short, front left (where the ball is shown stranded short of the green) as an extension of the green, but my instinct tells me this is what has to be done to approach the green when the hole is up front.  


The reason its so difficult to judge that kick in approach from a well positioned tee shot is still blind.


Ciao

[JMorgan]

Chip, Adam & Daryl

Thanks for the extra pix.  Ballyneal definitely wins my most intriguing course award for 2007.  It all looks so familiar, but I don't know it.  Its a very odd sense of nearly deja vu.  If one or some of you would be willing to do a photo tour of the course I would be much obliged.

I have always had a strong affection for the 7th at Pennard.  It follows mush the same pattern as many greens which are in sections, but this is a very small version.  I still haven't figured out how to use short, front left (where the ball is shown stranded short of the green) as an extension of the green, but my instinct tells me this is what has to be done to approach the green when the hole is up front.  


The reason its so difficult to judge that kick in approach is that a well positioned tee shot is still blind.


Ciao

That bottom picture ... the same waveform with the peaks and troughs repeating at different intervals ... .

[Peter Pallotta]

Sean, JM - thanks.

Are either of you willing to take a shot at explaining why the "scale" of that green/golf hole looks so right? I mean, everything about this looks right, e.g. the size and number and shapes of those bunkers, the swales in the foreground and background, the size of the green itself and the tie-in with the surrounds etc.

This struck me because I'm not all that good at separating out what I like in a green itself from everything else around it -- and this hole from Pennard is the prefect example of everything fitting togther. I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but maybe you can help explain in a few hundred less words than that.

Thanks
Peter  

[JMorgan]

Sean, JM - thanks.

Are either of you willing to take a shot at explaining why the "scale" of that green/golf hole looks so right? I mean, everything about this looks right, e.g. the size and number and shapes of those bunkers, the swales in the foreground and background, the size of the green itself and the tie-in with the surrounds etc.

This struck me because I'm not all that good at separating out what I like in a green itself from everything else around it -- and this hole from Pennard is the prefect example of everything fitting togther. I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but maybe you can help explain in a few hundred less words than that.

Thanks
Peter  

Peter,

I think the guys who could really answer your excellent question to the greatest satisfaction, other than Sean, are the shapers out there.  I would think they must begin to see so many different kinds of waves and contours in their sleep after a while.

Cheers, JM

[Chris_Blakely]

Some of my favorites:

U of M (Stadium Course) 6th
Arcadia Bluffs 5th
Wilderness Valley Resort - Black Forest 3rd and 13th
Coudersport GC 3rd
The Powelton Club 10th

[J_McKenzie]

The new restored 7th green at Brunswick CC is pretty sporty.  The pin locations are all challenging, even though you are coming into this green with short irons or wedges.  The front left pin location on the nose is diabolical, protected right and long by bunkers and short by a little bump-up into the green.  

BCC, #7


What's not clear from the photo is the right side of the green is at least a foot higher than the left with a ridge running from the left side of the front bunker to the back of the green.