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Malcolm Mckinnon

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Angry Sea Fairways
« on: February 02, 2011, 10:24:30 PM »
What about fairways that heave and roll like angry seas?

I nominate Eastward Ho! as the finest example I have played.

Your nominees???

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Mac Plumart

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2011, 10:31:43 PM »
18 at Osprey Point in Kiawah...hands down.



What makes it so special and awe inspiring is that the fairways are flat until this hole and then BLAMMO...weird, wild mounding right out of nowhere.  Nothing like introducing new and inventive styles and themes on the last hole. (insert rolling eyes)
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David_Tepper

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2011, 10:34:58 PM »
I have not seen it, but the relatively new Machrihanish Dunes course is reported to have very "angry sea" fairways. 
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Gary Daughters

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2011, 10:56:21 PM »

How about Brora?  I think it's generally angrier than Eastward Ho!

Angry seas, love the way you put that.
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Chris Cupit

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2011, 11:10:07 PM »
Sorry no pic but easily hole # 4 at Walton Heath.  Incredible contour on a strong sweeping dogleg left par four.  Maybe the fifth hole? 
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Brad Tufts

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2011, 11:22:48 PM »
Ballyliffin Old!
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Mike Cirba

Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2011, 11:37:51 PM »
Malcolm,

I'd nominate the first hole at Pacific Dunes, as well as the 2nd hole of The Old Course, where those rumbling, wavelike undulations continue through the green.

Ditto the 9th at Prairie Dunes.
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Mike Nuzzo

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2011, 11:51:51 PM »
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JNC Lyon

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2011, 12:12:20 AM »
Deal has some of my favorites, particularly on holes 15 and 17.
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Scott Warren

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2011, 01:46:23 AM »
Absolutely John. Some of those examples above have nothing on those fairways. Undulations you couldn't hit a 6 iron over!

Jeez I miss 'em!
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Sean_A

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2011, 01:48:06 AM »
Perranporth and Carne are flaoting around, but Pennard takes the foam. 

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Tony_Muldoon

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2011, 02:00:30 AM »
Quote from: JNC_Lyon on February 03, 2011, 12:12:20 AM
Deal has some of my favorites, particularly on holes 15 and 17.

The winter wind has been from the NE the past two weeks.  So from the becalmed first you tack back into the mini swells on 2.  The third fairway provides some respite, but the green is well out of reach into the cold wind. So you are left with no choice but to take your chances amongst the really big rollers...
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Jon Wiggett

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2011, 05:55:23 AM »
For an inland course, Boat of Garten
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Mark Chaplin

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2011, 05:58:04 AM »
The third at Deal pretty rough as well.

Scott - I know the sun will not be on my back but Saturday at Deal, dinner and overnight with James and Tory followed by Hankley on Sunday. Links and Heath at it's best!
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JNC Lyon

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2011, 09:26:21 AM »
3 is definitely rolling, though I guess it can have less impact because the serious roles are on the second shot and therefore not always in play.  Tony, it does seem like the wind blows out of the Northeast more often than people seem to think.  Thus, those swooping undulations will be brought into play.

Like Scott, I miss Deal and UK golf in general.  We have two feet of snow on the ground here, and a brisk round of golf in crisp Deal air would be a welcome relief.  I got an email about foursome times next week and almost checked last-minute flights!
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Scott Szabo

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2011, 10:31:42 AM »
Ballyneal.  I wish I had picture of hole 13 to post. 
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Jud_T

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2011, 10:38:18 AM »
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David Stamm

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2011, 10:51:39 AM »
Santa Anita, especially on 18, has some fantastic fw movement. The parcel of land was flat as a board, but James Harrison Smith still was able to make it seem almost natural. It's alot of fun to play on. You never know what kind of lie you'll end up with. There are quite a few So Cal courses with some dramatic fw movement, some natural, some not.
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JNC Lyon

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2011, 11:57:09 AM »
For any of you who've made it to Upstate New York, Donald Ross' Irondequoit, right next to Oak Hill in Rochester, has some wild fairway movement on the front nine.  Ross made the most of wild terrain, and the land at Irondequoit really distinguishes it from other courses in the area.  It's proof that parkland courses can still have great land movement.
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Kirk Gill

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2011, 12:30:50 PM »
Mike Nuzzo - those seas don't look angry to me. Not calm or placid, either.

Deep Sea Contour?
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David Kelly

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2011, 12:45:49 PM »
Most of the front nine at Royal Aberdeen.
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John Kirk

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2011, 12:54:08 PM »
Quote from: Mike Nuzzo on February 02, 2011, 11:51:51 PM


Hiya Mike,

Not angry enough.  Too pleasant and happy.
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Niall C

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2011, 12:58:42 PM »
7th at Silloth is the angriest of a pretty angry bunch

Niall
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Brett Hochstein

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2011, 01:54:49 PM »
#8 Crystal Downs
#5 Elie
#s 14 and 17 North Berwick
#12 Askernish
#10 Oakland Hills
#10 St Andrews New
Almost everywhere at Brora
#2 Tain
and so forth...
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Ben Sims

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Re: Angry Sea Fairways
« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2011, 02:04:08 PM »
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