What is the most beautiful natural landform in your everyday life?

[John Kavanaugh]

I'm lucky to drive by the Ohio River everyday that I leave my home.  I wish I could explain why it makes me so happy when everything else pisses me off.  My life would be less without it.

A linked pic.  http://pics.lockerz.com/s/242558395

I often think about hitting golf balls at the river, not over it, cause I couldn't even carry the Wabash.  Yea, a drunk friend much better than me once tried.

So, what's your favorite landform you see everyday and how could it relate to golf?

[Jim_Kennedy]

I see this (a cobble) at the end of my driveway.....




....then I drive by this on my way to work:

[John Kavanaugh]

The river Thames - all of the meeting rooms in our office have this view. I often go in there to make personal phone calls and stuff. I sit looking out at that view and it always makes me happy!

There is something very special about commerce at the river.

[John Kavanaugh]

I see this at the end of my driveway.....




....then I drive by this on my way to work:

Thanks Jim, that looks like a great place to be a bug.

[Matt Bosela]

Pretty easy answer for me, as I grew up a few par fives away from this:





I now live in the neighbouring city of St. Catharines, about 15 minutes away but my parents still live in that same house in Niagara Falls.

Tying it in with GCA, you can see the mist from the Falls when playing at Whirlpool GC, an old Stanley Thompson course just down the Niagara Parkway.  There was also the time that John Daly tried to drive a ball across the gorge from Canada to the US.



He tried about 20 times to clear the 340 yard gorge but failed on every attempt.

Lovely site and something I appreciate more as the years go on.

[Dan Kelly]

Holes 12, 13 and 14 at Oak Ridge CC (Hopkins, Minnesota), which I drive past every single day.

(Well, I can't see 12 from the car, but I know it's there.)

Fantastic rolling countryside, turned golf holes.

That's the sort of landform I want on a golf course -- natural or manufactured: twisting, turning, tumbling, eternally pleasing to the eye.

[Peter Pallotta]

Nice question JK - one of the loveliest 'natural' landforms that I drive by most days is actually completely manufactured, but done so well that it took me three years (and information from three people, including my wife) to figure that out.  It is the Arboretum that covers a couple of hundred acres near the university in town, and it serves as both a place for poeple to stroll and walk their dogs and as a lab for the forest/agriculture/botany students to experiment and learn. It has lovely rolling hills and huge swatches of trees and meadows of wild flowers and grasses, all native species to Ontario -- and, I'm told, most every single tree and flower has been precisely planned and planted there over the years by students. Yet the whole place feels and looks so charmingly random and 'right' that I still find it hard to believe. Which goes to show, I guess, that 'manufactured' golf courses can indeed look great and feel peaceful and random and natural, even if almost none of them ever do.

Peter  

[John Kavanaugh]

Peter,

You can see the lock and dam in the picture I linked.  The Ohio would not be so beautiful or peaceful without it.  I was really hoping for more subtle pictures like what is at the end of Jim's driveway.  I hardly need to see the view from Huntley's veranda to know it's beautiful.  I would prefer the small things that people notice even subconsciously that give them a better start to the day. 

I can promise you that if my wife sees any beauty in the river on a day to day basis it is subconscious at best.  We all have a different eye for what we see everyday.  Some may see it as a weakness in me but I demand beauty to be served with my golf.  Call me what you may but I'm a sucker for a view.

[Carl Nichols]

I often wonder why there aren't any courses built on the Potomac, at least anywhere near DC

[Terry Lavin]

As a very young lawyer, I attended my first deposition in San Francisco.  Before we got started, I stared out the conference room's window, which had a panoramic view of the Golden Gate Bridge.  My mouth was agape.  The court reporter, a grizzled old beast she was, looked over and, with palpable irritation, asked, "what are you staring at".  "THAT," was all I could manage, while pointing at the bridge.  "Meh..." was her reply.  I had the same experience upon seeing Niagra Falls, which blew me away, only to learn that the woman in the gift shop was singularly unimpressed by its natural majesty.

Bottom line, you can get "used to" any great view.  I'm guessing that the guys who mow the grass at Cypress don't operate their equipment in a state of excitement after a couple weeks.  Plus, I live in Chicago.  What am I supposed to say?  North Avenue Beach?  Meh.

[John Kavanaugh]

I often wonder why there aren't any courses built on the Potomac, at least anywhere near DC

I never truly understood the power held by George Washington until I saw the view of the Potomac from Mt. Vernon.

[Carl Nichols]

Just for you, John --

[Andy Stamm]

I'd like to point out that East Potomac Park Golf Course is in DC and as close to the Potomac as you're gonna get without playing underwater. It has some great views although not really of the Potomac.

[Carl Nichols]

Andy-
Fair point, although there's a road between the course and the river -- indeed, the road might be OB.  I was really thinking of courses that aren't separated from the Potomac by anything.  (Which is true of courses like River Creek, Trump Nat'l and Lansdowne, although I was really thinking about courses closer in.)

[Garland Bayley]

I see the Columbia River Gorge everyday, and its winds blow on my home course.

[Bruce Wellmon]

Plus, I live in Chicago.  What am I supposed to say? 

"Wrigley Field."

[Tommy Williamsen]

Don't have a picture with me but I drive by the Chesapeake Bay every day.

[Mike Hogan]

I drive by the headwaters of the mighty Mississippi River.
This is what is looks like.


In case you didn't know the Mississippi starts in Northern Minnesota.

[Andy Stamm]

Andy-
Fair point, although there's a road between the course and the river -- indeed, the road might be OB.  I was really thinking of courses that aren't separated from the Potomac by anything.  (Which is true of courses like River Creek, Trump Nat'l and Lansdowne, although I was really thinking about courses closer in.)

It'd be nice to have the views (some of which could be obtained by taking down trees next to the road), but that area is very popular with non-golfers, too, so it's nice that they have some space. With the location in regards to the city and the potomac basically surrounding the courses, it's a fantastic location though. The drive in and the putt-putt have great views though!

[Matthew Rose]

Tough to beat this.

[JLahrman]

I cross the Bay Bridge as part of my morning commute from Oakland to San Francisco. So I see the San Francisco Bay, Marin Headlands, Mt. Tam, and the Golden Gate Bridge (which isn't a natural landform) every day.

[Mark Pearce]

No picture but the River Tyne (and 4 of its 7 8 bridges) is less than 50 yards from my office window.

[Kyle Harris]

No picture but the River Tyne (and 4 of its 7 8 bridges) is less than 50 yards from my office window.

The grime on the Tyne is mine, all mine.

The stark desolation of Central Florida is a tranquil offset to the sprawl found along the I4 corridor.

[David Nelson]

Home/Office Scotland

Office Catania, Sicily

[Joe Bausch]

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