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Anthony Gray

Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« on: November 01, 2011, 07:58:43 AM »


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BCrosby

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2011, 11:18:34 AM »
Yes, all the time, every day, since time immemorial. 

Next question.

Bob

Terry Lavin

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2011, 11:27:22 AM »
As Mr. Gray might say himself, "Imitation is the highest form of flattory."
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  H.L. Mencken

Kalen Braley

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2011, 11:30:00 AM »
Has plagerism ever happened with dental techniques?  ;)

Terry Lavin

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2011, 11:32:00 AM »
Has plagerism ever happened with dental techniques?  ;)

I'll bet that plagiarism is endemic in good dental practices.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  H.L. Mencken

Michael Wharton-Palmer

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2011, 11:32:23 AM »
kalen...ALL the time, that is how we learn ;D

Kalen Braley

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2011, 11:33:41 AM »
Has plagerism ever happened with dental techniques?  ;)

I'll bet that plagiarism is endemic in good dental practices.

From 35+ years of going to the dentist, I would concur it is endimic.

Although i'm glad I no longer get the flouride goop in the tooth tray thingee.  That was always the worst part of going, even worse than getting the drill for a cavity.

Anthony Gray

Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2011, 11:55:25 AM »
Yes, all the time, every day, since time immemorial. 

Next question.

Bob

  Who and where did it first happen?

  Anthony


Dan Kelly

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2011, 12:22:56 PM »
Has plagerism ever happened with dental techniques?  ;)

I'll bet that plagiarism is endemic in good dental practices.

Thank you. I was beginning to think that I'm the only person here who knows how to spell!

(BTW: Please don't take this as any sort of attempt to flattor [sic].)
"There's no money in doing less." -- Joe Hancock, 11/25/2010
"Rankings are silly and subjective..." -- Tom Doak, 3/12/2016

BCrosby

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2011, 12:35:55 PM »
Yes, all the time, every day, since time immemorial.  

Next question.

Bob

  Who and where did it first happen?

  Anthony



I climbed into my Wayback machine at lunch and asked to be taken to the place where golf course plagiarism first occurred. There was a metalic groan, smoke poured out of the dashboard and a card appeared that read: "Does not compute."

Bob
« Last Edit: November 01, 2011, 12:38:01 PM by BCrosby »

Garland Bayley

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2011, 12:43:39 PM »
Certainly golf course features have been copied from existing courses. I doubt many have a problem with that.

The problem occurs when a job is bid with preliminary design features asked for in the bid. Then a losing architect's feature or features end up in the winning architects work.

For a similar example, Tom Doak has stated he refused to provide a routing plan to bid on doing Hunter Ranch in Paso Robles. He says he didn't trust the client. After the bidding was done, the owner went ahead and did the course himself. Tom figures that since the owner had already gone through the golf course building process with an architect at his La Purisma property, the owner thought he could do it himself.
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

Matthew Petersen

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #11 on: November 01, 2011, 12:51:15 PM »
What about courses like Tour 18 or others that deliberately attempt to recreate (though often quite poorly) famous holes?

Or is that more like covering a song since everyone knows you're not trying to pass it off as your own work?

Terry Lavin

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #12 on: November 01, 2011, 01:17:40 PM »
Has plagerism ever happened with dental techniques?  ;)

I'll bet that plagiarism is endemic in good dental practices.

Thank you. I was beginning to think that I'm the only person here who knows how to spell!

(BTW: Please don't take this as any sort of attempt to flattor [sic].)

My tongue was firmly in chic, so to speak, since it's Anthony's shtick to misspell in pretty much every post.
« Last Edit: November 01, 2011, 01:35:56 PM by Terry Lavin »
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  H.L. Mencken

Dan Kelly

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2011, 01:39:14 PM »
Has plagerism ever happened with dental techniques?  ;)

I'll bet that plagiarism is endemic in good dental practices.

Thank you. I was beginning to think that I'm the only person here who knows how to spell!

(BTW: Please don't take this as any sort of attempt to flattor [sic].)

My tongue was firmly in chic, so to speak, since it's Anthony's shtick to misspell in pretty much every post.

I hadn't noticed that patter(n)! Will watch for it, hencefourth.

By the way: Does he spell tyop correctly?

(Rihc -- You there, boy?)
"There's no money in doing less." -- Joe Hancock, 11/25/2010
"Rankings are silly and subjective..." -- Tom Doak, 3/12/2016

Anthony Gray

Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #14 on: November 01, 2011, 01:54:35 PM »
Yes, all the time, every day, since time immemorial.  

Next question.

Bob

  Who and where did it first happen?

  Anthony



I climbed into my Wayback machine at lunch and asked to be taken to the place where golf course plagiarism first occurred. There was a metalic groan, smoke poured out of the dashboard and a card appeared that read: "Does not compute."

Bob

  Call MIke Young and tell him some dork has a question..........if he's over the Tech game.

  Anthony


BCrosby

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2011, 02:34:48 PM »
Come to think of it, Mike has been awfully quiet lately.

Remember, he took a double hit. Clemson lost AND UGA won. It must of been ugly at his house Saturday night.

Andy Stamm

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #16 on: November 01, 2011, 02:55:26 PM »
What about courses like Tour 18 or others that deliberately attempt to recreate (though often quite poorly) famous holes?

Or is that more like covering a song since everyone knows you're not trying to pass it off as your own work?

Tour 18 had to make some changes because of lawsuits from Pebble, Pinehurst, Harbor Town, et al. That's as close to plagiarism as it gets, I think.

BCrosby

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #17 on: November 01, 2011, 02:58:30 PM »
Andy -

I don't remember what a happened in the aftermath of the court case. Did they have to make changes to the course or just changes to the way they advertised the course?

Bob

Lester George

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #18 on: November 01, 2011, 03:05:16 PM »

Yes it happens.  Based on my personal knowledge of it (no I won't elaborate) it happens more than you might expect. 

If an architect "copies" the green plans from his latest and greatest job and use them on another course, is that plagerism?  I think so.  If you agree, then some architects are guilty of multiple violations.

Lester 

Dan Kelly

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #19 on: November 01, 2011, 03:07:01 PM »
Andy -

I don't remember what a happened in the aftermath of the court case. Did they have to make changes to the course or just changes to the way they advertised the course?

Bob

Here's the preliminary: http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1995_1309260/lawyers-make-final-arguments-in-tour-18-lawsuit.html.

And an update: http://www.chron.com/sports/golf/article/10-year-old-Tour-18-survives-litigation-2087321.php

Seems to me they had to tear down the Lighthouse -- didn't they?

P.S. Ha! Score one for my rapidly aging brain! http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1998_3083075/tour-18-lighthouse-must-go-court-says.html
"There's no money in doing less." -- Joe Hancock, 11/25/2010
"Rankings are silly and subjective..." -- Tom Doak, 3/12/2016

astavrides

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #20 on: November 01, 2011, 03:52:39 PM »
Has plagerism ever happened with dental techniques?  ;)

A more debatable question might be, 'has innovation ever happened in dentistry?'

BCrosby

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #21 on: November 01, 2011, 03:54:22 PM »
Dan -

Thanks. Interesting that they were not required to change any "playing surfaces".

Bob

Kalen Braley

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #22 on: November 01, 2011, 04:14:22 PM »
Has plagerism ever happened with dental techniques?  ;)

A more debatable question might be, 'has innovation ever happened in dentistry?'

Hmm,

Given "old school" dental tools.  I pick now!!   :o



SL_Solow

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2011, 05:54:58 PM »
Is it plagarism if the architect copies his own work?  It may show a lack of creativity but plagiarism, if that term applies in this context, suggests taking someone else's work without attribution and claiming it for your own.  Clearly where an architect reuses his own ideas he is not plagiarizing.  Moreover, if he is inspired by someone else but makes modifications he is likely not plagiarizing although it would be apprpriate to acknowledge one's inspiration.
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Colin Macqueen

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Re: Has plagerism ever happened in golf course design?
« Reply #24 on: November 01, 2011, 06:02:13 PM »
Gentlemen,
I wasn't going to post this but you haven't taken Dan Kelly's admonition to heart!

Plagerism.......No entries found. Did you mean plagiarism / plagiarize?!

I will not practice plagiary and ever  plagiarize the word plagerism!

Cheers Colin
"Golf, thou art a gentle sprite, I owe thee much"
The Hielander

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