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Andy Troeger

Re: What gca is the least repetitive?
« Reply #25 on: May 12, 2008, 08:01:18 PM »
I haven't played enough courses by most of the architects mentioned to really comment on the choices. None of the ones of whom I've been a decent sample (at least 4-5 courses) would be worth nomination in my opinion. That doesn't mean I don't like their stuff, but any architect good or bad repeats certain themes.

I have nothing against a good architect repeating good ideas on different pieces of land. Jim Engh courses are probably the easiest for me to recognize, but even Coore/Crenshaw courses are very distinctive to their style based on the sample I've seen. Pete Dye courses, while built on many different types of sites, still have certain themes as well. Nothing wrong with that.

paul cowley

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Re: What gca is the least repetitive?
« Reply #26 on: May 12, 2008, 08:37:06 PM »
Well, from the view that I can see from inside my brain........I would say me....but thats silly when I think about what it must look like from the outside. ::)
paul cowley...golf course architect/asgca

Tommy Williamsen

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Re: What gca is the least repetitive?
« Reply #27 on: May 12, 2008, 10:59:51 PM »
Wouldn't SFGC alone suggest Tillie?

Great thread.

I'm not sure I understand what this means.  I have found Tilly's bunker placement to be similar at most of the courses I have played (WF E&W, Quaker, SFGC, BaltoE, (Baltusrol Upper and the many time reworked Lower course.) I don't necessarily think he had template hole but it is not too difficult to spot his courses.
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Tom_Doak

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Re: What gca is the least repetitive?
« Reply #28 on: May 12, 2008, 11:10:44 PM »
You can look at this two ways.  An architect who has done 100+ courses is likely to have done a few that look really different, just by sheer happenstance, but the main body of his work might be very similar.  Then again, at that level, it's much harder to keep the work fresh than an architect who has only built 10 courses or even 25 as I have.

For Tillinghast, SFGC and Somerset Hills (two of his earliest) are very different than all those parkland courses he built in the northeast in the 1920's, but the latter are not all that different from one another.

I thank John Kirk for his nomination but I don't see how I could be considered when John Kavanaugh just a week ago told me I'd built the same green 500 times now.  ::)  I will keep trying I guess.  I haven't played it yet but I hear the new course at Aetna Springs is really different.

Joe Perches

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Re: What gca is the least repetitive?
« Reply #29 on: May 12, 2008, 11:47:15 PM »
I'd built the same green 500 times now

Of the greens Renaissance has built, how many are yours?

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