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V. Kmetz

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Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« on: August 07, 2010, 10:37:10 PM »
Mine is...

"the Par 3 with water hard by the green and a bunker on the other side"

though i'm certain if I was charged with GCA as a true career, I would have one built by my second course, it somehow still disappoints me that such hazard pinches any swing.  I still don't feel like a better golfer or in better control of the golf ball, i'm merely relieved and lucky.  Meanwhile on a hole that allows a cleaving AWAY from the water to a solvable variety of pitches and chips and I make my miss there and then execute the shot for an up and down...I feel like I'm really golfing.  If I were to get up and down from the bunker, which invariably runs to the water on the other side, I merely feel lucky, not skilled.

you can pick from this or other tropes such as...

"the uphill finishing hole"

"the tee shot from extreme elevation"

"the 45 degree dogleg"

or remind us and make up your own

cheers

vk
"The tee shot must first be hit straight and long between a vast bunker on the left which whispers 'slice' in the player's ear, and a wilderness on the right which induces a hurried hook." -

Mac Plumart

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2010, 10:43:42 PM »
Vinnie...

you are killing me.  I had to look up the defintion of trope before I could even contemplate an answer.

Trope: : a common or overused theme or device

Okay, now let me think about an answer.
Sportsman/Adventure loving golfer.

RJ_Daley

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2010, 11:11:51 PM »
A design that is enjoyable for all handicap levels (I'm not saying the trope needs to be inaccurate to describe architecture, just that it is 'over-used' in one form or another, it seems to me)

also

Very little earth was moved...

The course blends into the natural terrain...

One of Golf, Golf Digest, best new...

18 championship holes...

Player-Architect...

Exclusive...
No actual golf rounds were ruined or delayed, nor golf rules broken, in the taking of any photographs that may be displayed by the above forum user.

Rob Miller

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2010, 01:50:01 AM »
Signature hole...

Mac Plumart

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2010, 05:30:44 AM »
par 72
Sportsman/Adventure loving golfer.

Steve Kline

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2010, 06:30:06 AM »
designed as a links course

Rob Miller

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2010, 06:35:54 AM »
majestic clubhouse

Ronald Montesano

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2010, 07:12:40 AM »
green complex
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Jim_Kennedy

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2010, 07:40:29 AM »
I'm not picking on Monty, his was the first pose I found. Insert the architect of your choice  :)

"I never beat a well man in my life" - Harry Vardon

Rob Miller

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2010, 08:33:15 AM »
Jim-Here's the end product of Monty's site visit photo you posted.  Lots and lots and lots of bunkers.



Jim_Kennedy

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2010, 09:18:06 AM »
Rob,
I hope all those bunkers in the middle of the photo are for another hole, a dogleg right hole that's heading toward the background, otherwise Monty was reading his plans upside down.  ;)
"I never beat a well man in my life" - Harry Vardon

Brian Phillips

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2010, 10:19:09 AM »
I'm not picking on Monty, his was the first pose I found. Insert the architect of your choice  :)


The architect is stood right next to him. Gary Johnston from EGD.
Bunkers, if they be good bunkers, and bunkers of strong character, refuse to be disregarded, and insist on asserting themselves; they do not mind being avoided, but they decline to be ignored - John Low Concerning Golf

Jim_Kennedy

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2010, 11:03:33 AM »
Do you think his tongue is hanging out from thirst, contemplation, or is this an RCA moment?  ;D

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The architect is stood right next to him. Gary Johnston from EGD.


The guy with the sweater around his shoulders could be the Pope of Trope.

......nah, that crown would probably go to the guy who built this hole, a treasure trove of tropes ("multiple tees", "strategic bunkering", "chippng areas"  :



 ;) ;D



"I never beat a well man in my life" - Harry Vardon

PThomas

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Re: Most Over-Used Trope in Golf Course Architecture
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2010, 11:08:24 AM »
Jim, what course is that?? :o
199 played, only Augusta National left to play!