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Anthony Gray

No 7 Cape Kidnappers....Speed Slot?
« on: August 19, 2010, 09:15:59 AM »


   From the tee

 

   Begining of fairway from tee

 

   Back toward the tee from beginning of fairway

 

   Middle of fairway

 

  The misses left and right can funnel onto fairway

 

 

  Back toward tee

 

 

 

  Toward green

 

 

  Behind green


 

 

Garland Bayley

Re: No 7 Cape Kidnappers....Speed Slot?
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2010, 11:37:00 AM »
Speed slot? That looks like a speed ramp! ;)

Depending on the distance from the various tees will make it a useful, or a dangerous slope. You definitely would not want to start one over the hill without enough momentum to reach the bottom.
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Tom_Doak

Re: No 7 Cape Kidnappers....Speed Slot?
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2010, 11:41:38 AM »
Anthony:

From the crest of the hill down to the bottom must be something like 50 feet.  We shaped a couple of little decks on the way down so that balls would have someplace to stop.  If you hit it right, you could go way on down the hill, but not many people would be able to get ALL the way down and then Garland's analysis might apply.

Since most on the DG have never been to Cape Kidnappers, I'd liken this slope to the tenth at Shinnecock for comparison.  Interesting that no one really mentioned that hole as a "speed slot" either.  I guess we think of it as more of a "hill".

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