Aerial of the Day #361 - 26 Jun 2003

[Scott_Burroughs]

Retreat! (for the summer, that is)

[Scott_Burroughs]

known for it's famous summer retreaters

Hot Lips' lover CC?

in the shadows of a well-known familial hill

[Scott_Burroughs]

No suncreen will induce Major Burns on your skin?

Famous ANGC members summered (is that a word?) here.  A prez and an amateur.

That architect again?  

[Scott_Burroughs]

Senior Shackelford's town?

Or younger Redgrave's town?

Not far from Blue Ridge Parkway.

[Dan Grossman]

Got it, don't know anything about it...

[Scott_Burroughs]

Recently on GW's Top 100 Classic list, GM's Top 100 You Can
Play, and GD's old Top 75 Affordable.

"Affordable" is a bit of stretch, considering big bucks need to
be spent to stay at one affiliated Lodge first.  Otherwise is
mostly private.


Near previous AOTD, with same name as "familial hill".

[BCrosby]

Is this Linnville in NC?

[Robert Kimball]

Got it.  How cool a place is this?  

For those of you who keep a list, this one is pretty close to AOTD #247.  One local once told me that the money in this village is "so old that it smells."  

Scott, after it is all said and done, I would love to know how you captured this one, because I couldn't get it on mapquest.

BTW, that is the driving range accross the street. This archie is famous for routing on not much area!!

[Scott_Burroughs]

Rob,

I got it from Terraserver (hence the USGS logo).

But it's there on Mapquest:

[Robert Kimball]

Ahhh, so it is. My mapquest skills are
not very good I have to admit.  

This course is known as one of the archie's
better designs.  Especially in this state where
he has quite a few!!!  

[Scott_Burroughs]

This is Linville GC, in Linville, NC, designed by Donald Ross.  
Linville is associated with the Eseeola Lodge (min $325 a
night) and in the middle of a number of summer retreat
courses (Grandfather, Linville Ridge, Blowing Rock, etc.) in
the northern mountains of NC.  

In the past, Linville was a summer retreat of Bobby Jones
and President Eisenhower (before the lodge?).

Here's the layout:



from the web site:

http://www.eseeola.com/golf.html


other clues include:

summer retreat course

"Hot Lips' lover CC" and "Major Burns" = character from
M*A*S*H, played on TV by Larry "Linville".

"in the shadows of a well-known familial hill" = "Grandfather
Mountain" and "Near previous AOTD, with same name
as "familial hill" = "Grandfather G&CC" = "AOTD #247"

"Famous ANGC members summered (is that a word?) here.  
A prez and an amateur" = Ike and Jones.

"Senior Shackelford's town?", and "younger Redgrave's
town?" = "Lynn"ville.

Not far from Blue Ridge Parkway

"That architect again?" = Ross

Recently on GW's Top 100 Classic list = #88 in 1997.
GM's Top 100 You Can Play = #25 in 1998
and GD's old Top 75 Affordable = #38 in 2002.

[Keith Williams]

For some reason I always thought that Bob Jones
summered in Highlands, N.C.  I have heard before that he
had a house on the Highlands C.C. golf course.  Did he
spend time in both?

Keith.

[Scott_Burroughs]

Keith,

I'm a little confused myself, as Ran has Highlands listed as a Jones retreat.  

I've heard from other places about Linville, such as here:

http://www.mountaintimes.com/summer/golf2.php3

or this (from "GolfOnline") : "The mountains of western North
Carolina have been drawing golfers since Atlantan Bobby
Jones beat the heat by visiting Linville one summer. "

...but Highlands makes more sense for Jones, as it's a lot
closer to Atlanta and is stictly private.  If Jones visited
Linville once, then he "summered there", according to any
tourist mag.  

[Keith Williams]

That makes sense, Scott.  I don't doubt that Jones probably
visited Linville at some point in time; but Highlands seems to
be where I have always heard of him summering.  In fact, I
believe that I read somewhere that Jones' dad, the colonel,
was introduced to Highlands by an acquaintance from the
Atlanta Athletic Club (now East Lake), which in turn makes
sense because back in that time Highlands was known as
"Atlanta's weekend playground"; a place where the affluent
escaped the city to socialize in the mountains.  I have only
visited Highlands a couple of times, but to this day it appears
to still be a very quaint and expensive retreat.

Keith.

[Marty Bonnar]

Ah, C'mon Scott - No Fair!!! (esp with a name like 'SCOTT'!)
Any chance of sneaking in a couple of more 'European' courses for us poor schmucks to get a chance at winning the 'Guess the course' Prize!?!?!?
Hmmm.....?
Please????

Cheers
FBD.

[Scott_Burroughs]

FBD,

I've done 25 courses from England and Wales, which is 1.2%
of the ~2048 courses in the two countries, and the 340 from
the U.S. is 2% of the ~16743 U.S. courses (remaining 2 were
from Australia).  Considering the vast majority of regular
contributors on GCA are Americans (maybe 5 from
England?), I think the U.K. is getting it's fair share.  Also,
those 25 courses are 6.8% of all 367 courses shown.

If you can get me a free and easy way to get aerials in
Scotland and Ireland, send it on, please, but for now the only
one for a few small regions in Scotland is not easy to use.  As
for Australia, those were sent to me (one was a picture from
the clubhouse), and again, I don't know of any way to get
aerials otherwise.

There has been a recent development from north of our
border, however.  From Ian Andrew's (Mapquest) aerial of St.
George's (I think) to another who informed me about
Vancouver area coverage, there will be a week perhaps of
Canadian aerials some time in the future.  I doubt all of
Canada is covered, so courses like Highlands and
Banff/Jasper are probably not available.

Please remember another thing, FBD, I do this on my own
time (two little ones at home), for everyone's pleasure,
without pay, braving copyright laws, and against my wife's
wishes.  I've posted on a number occasions the websites
where I obtain these aerials, and you're free to go look for
courses on your own.