Picture of the Year
Interesting potential for a Thread, so what springs to mind, well I think there are two photos that attract attention, perhaps three.
The first one many may remember was just posted a few months ago. I think it says a great deal more about the game we play to day. In the old days this would have been consider very unsportsmanlike and certainly frowned upon by the golfing community, yet today it is acceptable and indeed welcome after all what else are we expected to do – Wonder what the designer had intended, could it possibly be a hazard which perhaps the club considered is a hazard too far or has our generation just run out of ideas and anything goes for an easy life.
Feel free to submit your own caption - mine is ‘Is this Tennis or are we playing Golf’
The second photo was posted a few days ago being an aerial shot of TOC 1st &18th Holes. Its shows that
you really do not know or for that matter understand a course (no matter how often you may have
played it in your life time). How many people have been surprised by this photo with the deep lumps
and bumps on the 18th fairway against the relative smoothness of the 1st. At ground level the course
does not look so smooth or lumpy. Just think of the fun that is being missed by failure to roll back the
ball and to push more for the ground game. It also explains clearly why when the weather shows her
face at TOC, the game becomes more of a challenge with the course no longer an innocent bystander.
Again feel free to submit your caption – mine being ‘My Fair-weather Friend’
This photo from Elie reminds me of the great days of the past and my caption for this photo is ‘Leave no Stone Unturned’ in getting back to basics and what s great course to do it on as well.
The thinking mans photos of the year or serious GCA???
Melvyn