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Wade Whitehead

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Re: trains, planes and.... golf courses???
« Reply #25 on: November 06, 2009, 04:00:24 PM »
My family vacations at Emerald Isle each summer.  Star Hills, a course just off the island, has a grass landing strip literally between holes on the golf course.  It's about the width of a typical par four.  There's nothing like addressing the ball and backing off because a plane is landing 30 yards away.

WW

Jim Franklin

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Re: trains, planes and.... golf courses???
« Reply #26 on: November 06, 2009, 04:01:18 PM »
Sea Island. Lots of G5s flying by in the past. More prop planes recently though.
Mr Hurricane

Tom_Doak

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Re: trains, planes and.... golf courses???
« Reply #27 on: November 06, 2009, 05:24:42 PM »
Surprised that nobody has mentioned Inwood CC yet.  It's on the final approach to the main runway at JFK, just across the marsh ... used to be quite something to watch the Concordes come in every day.

Lossiemouth (Moray GC) is the most proximate I've played.  The landing towers are right across the fairways.  I played there while the Falklands War was on and the RAF was practicing more than usual ... I swear you could actually feel the heat of the Harriers' engines when they came over to land.

Kalen Braley

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Re: trains, planes and.... golf courses???
« Reply #28 on: November 06, 2009, 05:27:24 PM »
The previously mentioned WingPointe here in SLC.


Padraig Dooley

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Re: trains, planes and.... golf courses???
« Reply #29 on: November 06, 2009, 05:48:40 PM »
There's a pretty good view of SFO from Green Hills, also Shannon GC is alongside the fences of Shannon airport, plenty of guys must have seen it if they've flown in to Shannon.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
  - Pablo Picasso

J_ Crisham

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Re: trains, planes and.... golf courses???
« Reply #30 on: November 06, 2009, 06:53:24 PM »
Beverly could be named Transportation National.  We're on a direct runway for Midway Airport, located just six miles away.  Our course is bisected by an arterial street and hemmed in between another arterial street and a busy railroad line.  We are less than a mile away from a trauma center.  Planes, trains and ambulances.  Ah, sweet serenity on the urban links.
Terry,   Don't forget the concerts in the park series on the weekend at Dan Ryan Woods. Nothing like an East wind when the barbecuers and subwhoofers are in fullforce. ;D                     Jack

D_Malley

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Anthony_Nysse

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Re: trains, planes and.... golf courses???
« Reply #32 on: November 07, 2009, 10:56:54 AM »
Back at home, my dad always called a certain course "Trains, Planes and Automobiles" after the Jon Candy movie. The is is called Thornapple Pointe GC and is a mid 90's, Bill Newcomb design. The course has a highway adjacent to the west of the property, and highway ajacent to the North of the property, train tracks that bisect the property and Gerald R Ford International Airport 1/4th mile to the West..too much noise!

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Tony Nysse
Pine Tree GC
Boynton Beach, FL
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Anthony J. Nysse
Director of Golf Courses & Grounds
Apogee Club
Hobe Sound, FL

Ryan Admussen

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Re: trains, planes and.... golf courses???
« Reply #33 on: November 07, 2009, 11:17:39 AM »
There is a course in very close proximity to the Edmonton Airport - Blackhawk perhaps?


That's probably Redtail Landing, looks like a decent course

Ryan Admussen

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Re: trains, planes and.... golf courses???
« Reply #34 on: November 07, 2009, 11:22:51 AM »
Played Forest City National in London,Ont this fall, it's a great course for the price, theres a few in Calgary close to the airport but none worth mentioning

Cristian

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Re: trains, planes and.... golf courses???
« Reply #35 on: November 07, 2009, 11:40:45 AM »
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