"Cristian, I am trying to ignore TEPaul's obnoxious and insulting posts and stick to the facts.
-- While it was later lengthened, in 1898, the "Alps" at Myopia was 220 yards. This hardly sounds like the hole at Prestwick.
-- According to Bunker Hill in 1909, the hole "receive[d] its name from the hillocks to be carried from the teeing ground." This hardly sounds like the hole at Prestwick.
-- Bunker Hill also noted that ground was removed from before the green, but not because of a "large hill" as TEPaul claims. Rather, the green was blind because it was in a hollow and due to the "undulating nature" of the ground. The high spots were removed to create visibility. This undulating ground had nothing to do with why the hole was called the Alps.
As I said, there were many courses with "Alps" holes, but they weren't necessarily modeled after Prestwick. This was one of those holes."
Cristian:
If you have any interest in the history and evolution of the Alps hole at Myopia please do not take what Moriarty said above about it seriously. If you would like to know its history and evolution I'd be glad to explain it to you. David Moriarty knows nothing about the architectural history of that course or hole other than what he just quoted from "Bunker Hill" from American Golfer and what Moriarty tried to say about it is very meaningfully inaccurate to say the least. If Moriarty had ever actually seen that golf course and that hole he may have some idea why what he says is "meaningfully inaccurate" (to quote Tom MacWood's efficient terminology
) but on the other hand considering what Moriarty says on here, even if he did see the course he probably still wouldn't understand it or the history and evolution of the Alps hole on it.
And I should add, there is nothing at all obnoxious or insulting about what I'm saying here----for as David Moriarty correctly says, we need to stick to the facts.
