[Melvyn Morrow]

Patrick Mucci qualifies as a quirk, it just seem to fit so appropriate.
Quirk & Patrick just like two peas in a pod.
Don't think so then what about the Green writing, that’s quirky surely.

[RJ_Daley]

Reverse Peter Jans golf course, Evanstan IL, el platform must be cleared, and under the road cement tunnel must be played through.

More appropriate, and valid may be the reverst TOC on April Fools day.

[Ronald Montesano]

Delaware Park golf course, in north Buffalo, contributes the following:

Green9<-------------------------------Tee9 Tee8-------------------------------------->Green8

You walk off #7 green, select your club for the par three 8th, play to the green, leave your bag on 8 tee (if it's dusk, hope it doesn't get stolen) finish hole #8, walk back to tee, retrieve bag/play out of partner's bag (unless both have been nipped) and tee off on hole #9.

Hole #10 is a pitch downhill, over an enormous tree, to a tiny green next to the running circle that surrounds the course. Not sure if it's the tree or the attractive runners that adds more quirk. Hole #12 is a 180 yard shot over more enormous trees (unless you can swing a 40-yard draw in from the right) to a green sighted in "Baller Corner," across from the courts where Christian Laettner honed his game before heading off to Duke. The ballers often stop their games to watch a little golf. Hole #13 is another par three that plays under and through a canopy of overhanging trees, uphill, to a horizon green.

DPark...oh yes. Loads of fun and in much better shape since the Buffalo Olmsted Parks organization took over its upkeep.

[Tony Ristola]

None of the items represent architectural quirk to me.

"quirk" to me signifies the incorporation of unusual landforms into a hole that inturn produces an interesting golf hole

Succinct and on the money.

Island greens and double greens are usually the product of laziness or succumbing to the whim of someone. I hope I never produce the former, and if the latter is ever employed I hope I've got a damn good reason to do so, and the greens better be cheap to develop.

The 17th at TPC was original (though done before) and took balls to build, but as the saying goes, what original thinkers do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

[Sean_A]

Of the list presented thus far generally I would keep

double greens
walls etc in play
ha has
cross over holes ala O.L. and L.O. at North Wales - cross over par 3s (great idea though)

One can get into specific areas which are quirky such as at Painswick's 10th for instance.  There is nothing too quirky about a blind par 3, but one to the world's smallest punchbowl green with a leak is quirky.  

Ciao

[Garland Bayley]

Do it yourself Dell holes.

[Mark Chaplin]

Foursomes paths

[Tom Yost]

It seems that elements of quirk have been bred out of the modern golf course.  Much like a supermarket tomato, perfect in shape and color, yet devoid of any flavor.

[Tony Ristola]

It seems that elements of quirk have been bred out of the modern golf course.  Much like a supermarket tomato, perfect in shape and color, yet devoid of any flavor.

That is why we have salt and pepper

[Garland Bayley]

It seems that elements of quirk have been bred out of the modern golf course.  Much like a supermarket tomato, perfect in shape and color, yet devoid of any flavor.

That is why we have salt and pepper

Tony,

Have you eaten a supermarket tomato in the US? It is hard to imagine you have given the idea that salt and pepper can make up the difference.

But the point about breeding out is well taken. The do it yourself Dell holes at Astoria Country Club would not exist if the course had been built in the modern age. Equipment would have been brought in to break through those dunes to create something the inferior mind of man had come up with in his arrogance.

[Sean Remington (SBR)]

Merchantville G.C. in NJ has several examples in use.

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