"I am curious how many practicing architects really practice "triangulation" in their routings, especially on a golf-only project. In this era of valuable real estate, I find it hard to justify to clients."
TomD:
Are you serious? Have you actually had any of your clients try to chintz you out of land you'd really like to use for a routing or architecture just on real estate value considerations?
I find that sort of hard to believe with the project sites and clients you've had.
TEPaul,
And since you believe in fairy tales, what did the Easter Bunny bring you last week?
Even in Tom Doaks charmed existence, most clients will be real estate driven. Curiously, the better he does on the great sites, and more value his name has, the more he will have to deal with real estate.
More seriously OT, when I do use triangles, in normal land use situations where space is at a premium, the tendency is to combine three doglegs in the same direction (either right or left) to keep the triangle tight. Unless one or more of those can be non consecutive holes three dogleg holes in a row the same direction is not terribly desireable. Sometimes, if the maintenance area or irrigation lake is in the middle of the triangle you can get by with 3 straight holes since there is a valuble use for the land in the middle.
I have occaisionally been asked by developers to half pair two doglegs with the tee-landing area on one and landing area-green on the other to create a valuble little development pocket that has views of two holes, and can be sold as an estate lot with a double premium view.