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Paul_Turner

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Changes to Muirfield (HCEG)?
« on: July 17, 2009, 11:15:20 AM »
Has anyone seen the new bunker work Muirfield?  I hear the bunkers are being brought in closer to some greens.

Thanks
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Tony_Muldoon

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Re: Changes to Muirfield (HCEG)?
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2009, 04:14:40 PM »
There has been mention here of changes but not to the bunkers?

http://golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,40219.0/

I'm pretty sure Mark Pearce participated in the thread that neither of us can find?

Has 2013 actually been anounced yet?
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Paul_Turner

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Re: Changes to Muirfield (HCEG)?
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2009, 05:08:57 PM »
Tony

Thanks, yes I knew the 9th was being extended along with some other holes.

Although you have to ask why because the average driving distance has changed much at all since 2002 when Els won there (a jump of about 6yards between 2002 and 2003 but flat since then).  And the course was challenging enough in 2002!

Who foots the bills for the changes demanded by the R and A? 

So I guess nobody really knows about the proposed bunker changes (I now assume they haven't been done yet)?
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Pete_Pittock

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Re: Changes to Muirfield (HCEG)?
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2009, 12:10:56 AM »
I don't know anything about the bunkers.
Tony,
The Linkstrust website has "2013 Muirfield" when I searched for a list of championship winners.

Tom_Doak

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Re: Changes to Muirfield (HCEG)?
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2009, 08:42:02 PM »
Paul:

I will be over next door to Muirfield all next week and will see what I can find out ... though I did not pack my jacket and tie, so I've had to decline a game at HCEG.

Paul_Turner

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Re: Changes to Muirfield (HCEG)?
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2009, 06:48:45 AM »
Thanks Tom.

From a design perspective, I believe the course has been unchanged for over 70 years.
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Bob_Huntley

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Re: Changes to Muirfield (HCEG)?
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2009, 04:23:51 PM »
Paul:

I will be over next door to Muirfield all next week and will see what I can find out ... though I did not pack my jacket and tie, so I've had to decline a game at HCEG.
Tom,

Shame on you.

Bob

Jason McNamara

Re: Changes to Muirfield (HCEG)?
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2009, 06:21:18 PM »
Paul:

I will be over next door to Muirfield all next week and will see what I can find out ... though I did not pack my jacket and tie, so I've had to decline a game at HCEG.
Tom,

Shame on you.

Bob

Dear Tom,

Marks and Spenser has, er, have ten locations in Edinburgh.  Jackets starting at 40 pounds.   :)

Pete_Pittock

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Re: Changes to Muirfield (HCEG)?
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2009, 06:34:08 PM »
Paul Turner,
They added a Nicklaus bunker to a hole on the back nine (I think #15).

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