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Anthony Gray

What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« on: September 20, 2011, 10:44:40 AM »


  12 hands down for me. I had seen nothing like it before or since.

  Anthony

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Jud_T

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2011, 10:49:52 AM »
11
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Sean_A

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2011, 10:56:34 AM »
16.

I want to see the guy who picks a hole on the front nine.

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Jason Topp

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2011, 11:03:07 AM »
12 - it was playing into the wind and the caddy gave me a line way to the right near gorse.  I did not know anything about the hole and thought he was nuts but followed direction.  It was magic to suddenly see those giant bunkers.
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mike_malone

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2011, 11:13:20 AM »
 5- I loved the dip in front of the green and the pin was in front that day.
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Sean_A

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2011, 11:22:47 AM »
Quote from: Sean Arble on September 20, 2011, 10:56:34 AM
I want to see the guy who picks a hole on the front nine.

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I KNEW IT WOULD BE MAYDAY!!!!

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Shane Wright

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2011, 11:55:11 AM »
13, ton of strategy, and into a prevailing wind, two very well struck balls are needed. 
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Bill_McBride

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2011, 12:32:25 PM »
Quote from: Jason Topp on September 20, 2011, 11:03:07 AM
12 - it was playing into the wind and the caddy gave me a line way to the right near gorse.  I did not know anything about the hole and thought he was nuts but followed direction.  It was magic to suddenly see those giant bunkers.

There's also a great line to up or down pins from that angle.  My favorite Old Course caddy gives that line off the tee too.

My favorite hole on the Old Course is 14, tacking my way around Hell.
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Kalen Braley

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2011, 12:37:50 PM »
No 17 or 18?  Interesting....
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Shane Wright

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2011, 12:38:34 PM »
Kalen,

17 is my favorite in the world...but I knew it going in.  17 and 18 kind of go without saying, IMHO
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Jeff_Brauer

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2011, 12:56:58 PM »
17 for me, but its actually hard to beat the overall feeling and ambiance of standing on the first tee at TOC.
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Melvyn Morrow

Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2011, 01:21:03 PM »

Sean

I think I must include the 1st Hole on TOC, it has a wonderful start, reminding one of all that has gone on before and I have had or seen much amusement at the Silken Burn that at times have made that hole most enjoyable. Perhaps it’s just me and the echoes of history I hear every time I get close to TOC. But still the thrill factor makes it one of the best IMHO.

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Mac Plumart

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2011, 01:29:21 PM »
16!!!!
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Anthony Gray

Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #13 on: September 20, 2011, 01:33:47 PM »
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Mac Plumart

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2011, 01:37:09 PM »
Center line bunkers...NASTY bunkers at that.

Good contours on the green.

Interesting angles to take/options...on distance and angles, frankly. 

Add in the wind.  BABY!!

But 14 is SWEET!!  17 is awesome.  11 is kick ass.  Amazing course.
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Anthony Gray

Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #15 on: September 20, 2011, 01:43:47 PM »
Quote from: Mac Plumart on September 20, 2011, 01:37:09 PM
Center line bunkers...NASTY bunkers at that.

Good contours on the green.

Interesting angles to take/options...on distance and angles, frankly. 

Add in the wind.  BABY!!

But 14 is SWEET!!  17 is awesome.  11 is kick ass.  Amazing course.

  I like the sneeky hidden bunker. I always play with a kid who takes it over the OB and brings it back off the tee. Neet to watch. I have putted from the 17th tee box before. Good pick to recognize the nonobvious.

  Anthony

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Mark Chaplin

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #16 on: September 20, 2011, 01:49:53 PM »
The first, on my first and only visit after a rather heavy R&A lunch and muchos Kummel I hit the pin with my second shot.
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Anthony Gray

Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2011, 01:56:18 PM »
Quote from: Mark Chaplin on September 20, 2011, 01:49:53 PM
The first, on my first and only visit after a rather heavy R&A lunch and muchos Kummel I hit the pin with my second shot.

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Pete_Pittock

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2011, 02:41:51 PM »
Quote from: Melvyn Hunter Morrow on September 20, 2011, 01:21:03 PM

Sean

I think I must include the 1st Hole on TOC, it has a wonderful start, reminding one of all that has gone on before and I have had or seen much amusement at the Silken Burn that at times have made that hole most enjoyable. Perhaps it’s just me and the echoes of history I hear every time I get close to TOC. But still the thrill factor makes it one of the best IMHO.

Melvyn











Melvyn,
Silken Burn? Did they rename the Swilcan Burn or did auto-spellcheck do you in?
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Matt MacIver

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2011, 02:50:22 PM »
When I first read the title I immediately thought of #9, not because it's crazy remarkable but because it was "all right there in front of me" -- for the first time in the round.  Capitalizing on it by driving the green was all the more special. 
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Marty Bonnar

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #20 on: September 20, 2011, 02:51:39 PM »
17 - cos I parred it!
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David Kelly

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #21 on: September 20, 2011, 05:24:19 PM »
Quote from: Matt MacIver on September 20, 2011, 02:50:22 PM
When I first read the title I immediately thought of #9, not because it's crazy remarkable but because it was "all right there in front of me" -- for the first time in the round.  Capitalizing on it by driving the green was all the more special. 

#9 really? I would have figured that would be the consensus least liked hole on TOC.  Did you really not like some of the blindness on the front nine that much?

For my it is #11. So much history there, so influential and so damn challenging.  It has the potential to be a round killer but a par there feels really good.
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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #22 on: September 20, 2011, 05:37:38 PM »
I first played The Old Course in 1984. From then on I have always said that if I could hit only one more tee shot in my life, I want one last crack at the tee shot on the Road Hole. #17 for me.
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Mark Chaplin

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Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #23 on: September 20, 2011, 05:42:50 PM »
Anthony - certainly in my top 4 golfing days, I've been a petty lucky boy over the past few years.
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Melvyn Morrow

Re: What hole did you like the most the first time you played TOC?
« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2011, 05:45:32 PM »
Peter

Spelling error it should of course read Swilken or can be Swilkan from the 1930's Uni photo or it can be spelt Swilkin from the 1836 Chalmers course map. But to most to us its Swilken. Blame the spelling error with either i or a on to the West Coast players who had a wee problem with Swilken after a dram or two.

Melvyn
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