[Mike_Young]

Just reading another thread regarding a "Best Course you've and got to thinking....

[Bill_McBride]

Just reading another thread regarding a "Best Course you've and got to thinking....

 

[Paul Jones]

Okay, I will bite... How can you critique a course without playing it or seeing it?  From what others had to say about it?

[Bill_McBride]

Okay, I will bite... How can you critique a course without playing it or seeing it?  From what others had to say about it?

Or either GCA profiles/threads or magazine ratings?   

[John Moore II]

Okay, I will bite... How can you critique a course without playing it or seeing it?  From what others had to say about it?

Well, maybe not the whole course or layout. But the courses played on tour, I think you can critique an individual hole or set-up. I was quite 'vocal' about Pebble Beach during the US Open and how I felt the set-up was ridiculous in a few cases.. Perhaps not a critique of the whole course, just one hole and its set-up within the microcosm of the US Open Championship. One of my key points was how I felt it was not 'natural' that professionals were unable to get a ball within 20 feet of the hole on 7 (Dustin Johnson's miss-hit that he was obviously worried would end up in the bunker not withstanding). Same about the set-up on 14. I guess my comments were not so much to say the architecture itself was inferior, but that the tournament set-up was inferior.

[Mike_Young]

Okay, I will bite... How can you critique a course without playing it or seeing it?  From what others had to say about it?

hmmm.  I've seen it done....now many times it is done in a manner where the person has been on this site long enough that he has convinced himself he has played it...then he remembers....  or you can play it on the video games....

[Paul Jones]

....or you can play it on the video games....

That is funny :-) - but probably sad also because it is true.

[Mike_Young]

come on..I thought we would get a huge "dork fest" out of this post....

[Bill_McBride]

come on..I thought we would get a huge "dork fest" out of this post....

None of the dorks are biting.   

[Mike_Young]

come on..I thought we would get a huge "dork fest" out of this post....

None of the dorks are biting.   

Patience Bill....look..the nerd herd hits first and then the dorks will start gathering....just sit back....

[Ben Voelker]

Pine Valley

[Bill_McBride]

come on..I thought we would get a huge "dork fest" out of this post....

None of the dorks are biting.   

Patience Bill....look..the nerd herd hits first and then the dorks will start gathering....just sit back....

Are you bored this evening?  A bit of insomnia perhaps?

[Mike_Young]

I had to go to Grand Caymen for a day and did not get home until 3 this morning so a little out of kilter....but I am playing with creating some "on topic OT threads"  so this was a good nite....

[TEPaul]

I just wouldn't do that Mike, and I never have. THAT is the fundamental problem I have with Tom MacWood on here---eg he both critiques the architecture of and the recorded histories of courses and clubs he has never even been to or seen. I wish you and more on here would call him out on that!

[John Moore II]

I just wouldn't do that Mike, and I never have. THAT is the fundamental problem I have with Tom MacWood on here---eg he both critiques the architecture of and the recorded histories of courses and clubs he has never even been to or seen. I wish you and more on here would call him out on that!

And with that one comment, a thread that had slight potential to be something decent went straight down the toilet. This will probably run 20 pages just because of that one comment. OH JOY. 

[PCCraig]

Apparently you can judge a course and decide you never want to play it because you've already "seen" it thanks to HD Television.  

[Bill_McBride]

Apparently you can judge a course and decide you never want to play it because you've already "seen" it thanks to HD Television.  

This is a great country, right?   

[PCCraig]

Apparently you can judge a course and decide you never want to play it because you've already "seen" it thanks to HD Television.  

This is a great country, right?   

[Mac Plumart]

Augusta National seems to be the King of this category.

[mark chalfant]

Churchill  Downs  near  Kentucky

[Peter Pallotta]

Mike - I once praised a course called LongShadow sight unseen. Does that count? 

Peter

[George Pazin]

You guys are pikers, I once wired $4K to a guy I've never met on the other side of the world for a course I still haven't seen.

THAT, my friends, is drinking the Kool Aid.

 

I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

[Charlie Goerges]

A whole bunch of them. Generally on the basis of photographs. Bear in mind that critique does not merely mean to enumerate the course's shortcomings.

I believe that photographs can offer meaningful information about a golf course. I realize that there are those who feel the opposite. We'll have to agree to disagree on this point.

[Mike_Young]

Mike - I once praised a course called LongShadow sight unseen. Does that count? 

Peter

Just don't look at it right now....

[Bill_McBride]

Mike - I once praised a course called LongShadow sight unseen. Does that count? 

Peter

Just don't look at it right now....

Wasn't that bad in late May ...... except for my chat with the owner.   

My fancy private club friends much preferred Longshadow, in its current state of genteel shabbiness, to Great Waters which we played the next day.

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