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George Pazin

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GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« on: October 06, 2009, 01:51:39 PM »
One of my favorite movies is The Player. It's so entertaining and clever, but the funniest thing about it to me is how people do quick pitches of new movie projects: "It's about a hooker trapped at a party taken over by terrorists - Pretty Woman meets Die Hard! (made that up, can't remember any specific examples).

So here's your chance to pitch your dream course in one sentence.

Mine is:

Oakmont meets Augusta - everything at Oakmont, sans rough.

What's yours?
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Jason Topp

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2009, 02:05:18 PM »
Royal Melbourne by the Ocean
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Jud_T

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2009, 02:06:53 PM »
Tom Doak meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Michael Huber

Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2009, 02:18:03 PM »
The old course meets anywhere that allows golf carts.
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Chris_Clouser

Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2009, 02:34:01 PM »
This ones for Tom Paul:

Anywhere with Heidi Klum on his bag! 
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Jud_T

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2009, 02:46:57 PM »
Dschmidt-

great concept but way more than one sentence....
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Jim Colton

Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2009, 02:55:49 PM »
Tom Doak meets Jim Engh, a science fiction thriller
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Jfaspen

Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2009, 04:24:34 PM »
Mike Stranz comes back for one final course on land currently held by the CCC, ie. a MPCC without a template.

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Matt_Cohn

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2009, 04:55:31 PM »
First course:


Second course:


Clubhouse goes where the top of Lombard Street is now.
« Last Edit: October 06, 2009, 04:57:10 PM by Matt_Cohn »
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Scott Warren

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2009, 04:56:51 PM »
North Berwick GC meets my backyard!
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Jay Flemma

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2009, 05:44:58 PM »
A course where all the fairways or greens seen form above are exact copies of the outlines of states...florida for a dog-leg cape hole, Oklahoma for a bottle hole, california for a sweeping par-5...Rand-McNally meets C.B. Macdonald:):)
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Peter Pallotta

Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2009, 06:19:44 PM »
Dornoch meets Riviera - The Soul of Golf, with Babes even
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Ben Sims

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2009, 07:59:02 PM »
Mike Nuzzo meets Sheep Ranch.  A new-style of public golf.
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Michael Blake

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2009, 10:18:37 PM »
Quote from: Ben Sims on October 06, 2009, 07:59:02 PM
Mike Nuzzo meets Sheep Ranch.  A new-style of public golf.

Ben,

Wolf Point is not too far off from that, though not public.  But standing on the first tee at WPC there are at least 5 or 6 other holes you can play to if so desired for a 'Sheep Ranch-type' game. 

George, that is a very good movie.

I nodded my head up and down as I read Peter P's pitch, so I'll go simply second his.



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Mike_Trenham

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2009, 10:26:17 PM »
Its a Rees Jones course renovated by Tillinghast.
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Tim Bert

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #15 on: October 06, 2009, 10:30:41 PM »
Quote from: Jim Colton on October 06, 2009, 02:55:49 PM
Tom Doak meets Jim Engh, a science fiction thriller

I think they already did this one.  The event is pending...

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/digital-short-space-olympics/656361/
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Rob Rigg

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #16 on: October 07, 2009, 01:15:27 AM »
I was going to say Wolf Point in Portland.

I agree with Ben, this is where public golf in the US needs to go.

I would love to see a Nuzzo course on a flat to rolling site out here that played firm and fast (at least during the summer when it is dry). It would be a great departure from the standard penal tree lined courses that are dime a dozen - or the flat and boring layouts with pointless water.

A couple sites have been identified - this picture will be in theatres when sufficient funds are pooled - in the not too too too distant future (maybe, hopefully)
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RJ_Daley

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #17 on: October 07, 2009, 02:28:06 AM »
Maybe it is a documentary - not a movie, but I've been saying it for years...

Ken Burns meets Tom Doak, or...

Renaissance Golf meets Florentine Films

A documentary of the history of GCA, with TD as technical advisor to KB, filmed in part at the next big course to be constructed in the Sand Hills or on links-dunes property, using work horse association animals to reenact the old days of construction for those scenes, and the potential for really great cinematography is exciting... at least to me...  ::) ;) ;D 8)
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Richard Choi

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #18 on: October 07, 2009, 12:40:44 PM »
Dr. Frankenreese USOpenizes the Old Course, resulting in an abomination of nature!

Yes, it's a horror film...
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Tim Leahy

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #19 on: October 07, 2009, 02:18:42 PM »
Quote from: DSchmidt on October 06, 2009, 02:30:25 PM
It's a links course in the mountains.  It's called Rock Creek.  And it'll be the site of "Caddyshack II:  The Mulligan...Because the last version doesn't count)"

Starring Jack Black as Carl's son, the new greenskeeper at the club now co-owned by Carl Spackler (who made a fortune when he sold his Northern California Sensamilla prototype to Scott's Seed Company) and Ty Webb, who is now the president of the USGA...but that's all I can tell you...



I really like it, Ryan Reynolds could play Ty's son and Paris Hilton could be the rich socialite who wants to plow the course under for condo's. Rush Limbau could be her villain father.
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Jim_Kennedy

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #20 on: October 07, 2009, 02:24:31 PM »
It's Jim Engh meets William Shakespeare - "No Holes Bard"
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Jud_T

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #21 on: October 07, 2009, 02:27:06 PM »
50 holes in 50 states-a cartball fantasy (hey, it's a road picture)....
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Jim_Kennedy

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Re: GCA meets Hollywood - pitch your dream course!
« Reply #22 on: October 07, 2009, 02:32:30 PM »
Coore and Crenshaw get a site on the Monterey Peninsula- "The Sand Pebbles"
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