Alex
I have never mentioned any restriction of how the site is designed/constructed. My statement is as follows “The original lie of the ground has been retained in all cases”. To do so must be one of the highest goals in designing a golf course particularly if the course is also found to be fun and challenging to play.
To have built a golf course that proves challenging and fun yet retained most if not all its original features is I understand hard for some to achieve let alone perhaps for some to contemplate. I would have thought it would have been the most important part of the design/build process, but seems I am wrong. Perhaps that explains why so many of the new courses and modification to some old ones since WW2 come across as mediocre. Well as we know on here our likes and dislikes on courses are as wide as the English Channel, proving that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Michael B
Get a life and grow up, the financial recession is hitting all of us. My topic was meant to praise designers as I said
“A complete display of ultimate skill, understand and knowledge of ones profession.
However, not many will ever get that close, restricted by clients, budgets or more often than not the selection and choice of the land. Another proud boast is to say, ‘Well. I have to do it to keep a roof over my family’s head and also to put food in their mouths’ while totally honourable and commendable, yet it does not quite cut it when looking for the next job.”
Do you fully understand my meaning of the last sentence (above) – ‘yet it does not quite cut it when looking for the next job’. Being forced to be average, generally producing whatever within the budget/brief does not always display a brilliant course which is what you may be judge upon when going for your next job, so it does not quite cut it when looking.
“Disgusting” perhaps but it the price we pay for accepting specific contracts which will never show our true merits – sometimes we have to take a risk.
Kmoum
I would not praise a designer for building a course on either site, but you know my position on Land Fit For Purpose. There are sites where course should NOT BE BUILT UPON no matter how much money is involved, but if an architect wants to sell his soul to the Devil who am I to stop him. This has always been at the heart of my argument regards location of a golf course. Yes there are parts of the world just not suitable for the game of golf – cart ball or any other deviatory word for golf, perhaps but not golf.
Mike
Quite a few one being, The New Course
Gentlemen
A post to praise the skill of design on a site which is meant to be all about design, has yet again been rubbished. However, we still continue to go on throwing out this absolute crap and rubbish about the best of this and the best of that, never ever seeming to agree upon a definite listing.
Melvyn