Stone Eagle: A Pictorial!!!

[Kyle Henderson]

Very nice Kyle.
Were you using a wide angle lens?
I ask because a wide angle will make the fairways look smaller from the tee.

I used the stock 55mm lens with a UV filter (mostly protect the lense).

Zoom lens right? 18-55 I'm guessing...

What is it with flickr, the exif data is stripped?  Sometimes it is cool to view the exif of a photo - you can see what camera, lens focal length, exposure settings, etc were used.

Tom,
Affirmative.

Eric,
Gratzi!

[Carl Nichols]

Thank you Kyle. Your photo tours always deliver, as I'm stuffed full of desire to seek out the Stone Eagle.

This view is one I hadn't noticed before in other tours and to me is particularly sexy (in a dunes slut sort of way).

Agreed -- looks like a much better version of Wolf Creek

[Rob Bice]

Kyle - great pictures and thread!  Thank you.

Tom - You mentioned this might be the best work you have ever done given the complexity of the site.  How different, if different at all, is the design process for desert courses?

On a related point.  How much playability do you believe there should be out of the desert?  Do you do much to the desert in these designs to make it more or less playable?  Thanks.
Rob

[Eric Smith]

What a great logo! Looks to me like this design team did it's job extremely well too. Is there a members-only version without the lettering?

[rjsimper]

I have a hat from SE with just the squiggly mountain. I do like it quite a bit.

[John Kirk]

Don't think there's a members only version.  Should be.

[Will Smith]

Kyle,

Great photos! SE has to be the most unique course built in a long time. It takes desert golf and turns it on its head. What a landscape and incredible views. Like others before me on this thread, I too believe that SE should have a higher profile in the rankings.

- Will

[jkinney]

But what do I know.......

Mr. Kinney,

There was a recurring chracter on Saturday Night Live, "Caveman Lawyer", played by Phil Hartman.  After long elaborate explanations, he always finished with:

"But what do I know, I'm just a caveman."

Beam me up, Scotty !.....that's what I knew I was ; I just couldn't remember......




Really nice words from Tom Doak about his golf course.

Mac,

The course has a few shortcomings, limitations due to a severe site.  As both jkinney and Tom Doak have said, it is a lovely place to play golf and spend the day.  I expect Stone Eagle's reputation to grow in the coming years.

[jkinney]

But what do I know.......

Mr. Kinney,

There was a recurring chracter on Saturday Night Live, "Caveman Lawyer", played by Phil Hartman.  After long elaborate explanations, he always finished with:

"But what do I know, I'm just a caveman."

Beam me up, Scotty !.....that's what I knew I was ; I just couldn't remember......

For any of you from Rio Linda ( as my favorite radio guy is fond of saying), the Star Trek reference above is in honor of Mr. Kirk, whose obvious nickname I'm no longer allowed to utter....for reasons unknown.





Really nice words from Tom Doak about his golf course.

Mac,

The course has a few shortcomings, limitations due to a severe site.  As both jkinney and Tom Doak have said, it is a lovely place to play golf and spend the day.  I expect Stone Eagle's reputation to grow in the coming years.

[Colin Macqueen]

Kyle,
Simply a sumptuous set of photographs. Beautiful looking golf course. I am pleased that the impression of being very narrow is more or less an illusion. At first glance I thought I wouldn't have the game or courage to play the course. Maybe, just maybe, I would not lose all my balls (so to speak!).

Cheers and thanks, Colin.

[John Kirk]

But what do I know.......

Mr. Kinney,

There was a recurring chracter on Saturday Night Live, "Caveman Lawyer", played by Phil Hartman.  After long elaborate explanations, he always finished with:

"But what do I know, I'm just a caveman."

Beam me up, Scotty !.....that's what I knew I was ; I just couldn't remember......

For any of you from Rio Linda ( as my favorite radio guy is fond of saying), the Star Trek reference above is in honor of Mr. Kirk, whose obvious nickname I'm no longer allowed to utter....for reasons unknown.





Really nice words from Tom Doak about his golf course.

Mac,

The course has a few shortcomings, limitations due to a severe site.  As both jkinney and Tom Doak have said, it is a lovely place to play golf and spend the day.  I expect Stone Eagle's reputation to grow in the coming years.

For you Mr. Kinney, we will give special consideration.  You may call me Mr. Kirk, or Lieutenant Kirk, and Ensign Kirk, anything you want.

As long as I can call you by your first name when we play golf.

I was out at the course today.  Sheesh it was nice.  Greens rolled and frighteningly quick for the first few holes.  The greens decompress and slow down to about 11 feet after the first hour.

Kyle's pictures make the course look narrow.  Average fairway width is about 75 yards in the landing areas here.  Foursome from the back tees, including a 12 handicapper.  Play was spirited and sharp, maybe 2 balls were lost by the group all day.  I would expect a total of maybe 3 or 4 on average from a foursome of theseplayers (handicaps 1, 5, 8, 12).

John

[rjsimper]

John - any of the tour boys make it out there this week? Hear any feedback from them?

[John Kirk]

Ryan,

Let me ask around.  I'll get back tomorrow if I remember to ask.

[Jon Spaulding]

Ryan,

Let me ask around.  I'll get back tomorrow if I remember to ask.

John, we need that feedback or you'll be hearing from Cirroc (pronounced Key-rock).......

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know - when a man like my client slips and falls on a sidewalk in front of a public library, then he is entitled to no less than two million in compensatory damages, and two million in punitive damages. Thank you.

[Kyle Henderson]

Perhaps this will provide a foundation for the design of the "Members Logo."



"When I see my image on the security camera at the country club, I wonder, are they stealing my soul? I get so upset, I hop out of my Range Rover, and run across the fairway to to the clubhouse, where I get Carlos to make me one of those martinis he's so famous for, to soothe my primitive caveman brain. But whatever world you're from, I do know one thing - in the 20 years from March 22nd, 1972, when he first ordered that extra nicotine be put into his product, until February 25th, 1992, when he issued an inter-office memorandum stopping the addition of that nicotine, my client was legally insane. And, for that reason, I ask that you find him... not guilty. Thank you. " -Cirroc, Unforozen Caveman Lawyer