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Ed Oden

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A foolproof solution for maintaining fairway lines
« on: April 02, 2013, 11:33:39 AM »
Establish them with cart paths...



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Mac Plumart

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Re: A foolproof solution for maintaining fairway lines
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2013, 12:06:09 PM »
 ;D
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Chris Buie

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Re: A foolproof solution for maintaining fairway lines
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2013, 01:03:33 PM »
Maintaining fairway lines is all fine and well but you're going to need to be clear about which shots are Oscar Brown - out of bounds. They did a lovely job with that here.

A few of the European courses look ok but I think it's rather poignant that even after all these years they haven't been innundated with that exquisite sense of American aesthetcs. I suppose we'll have to keep such spiritually uplifting scenarios to ourselves a bit longer. A pity.
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Bill_McBride

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Re: A foolproof solution for maintaining fairway lines
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2013, 01:12:04 PM »
Can you imagine playing the course in that bottom picture with all the double loaded fairways, OB on both sides of every hole?  OMG, The very soul of golf shrieks, etc etc etc.
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jeffwarne

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Re: A foolproof solution for maintaining fairway lines
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2013, 02:12:14 PM »
They'd save a ton on concrete if they just put those paths in the middle of the fairway and reward the good shots ;D
Couldn't look any worse.....

I like Bubba's idea
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Peter Pallotta

Re: A foolproof solution for maintaining fairway lines
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2013, 03:54:49 PM »
Ed - well, we need to figure something out, because this is the one issue that I find crosses all sectors of the game, i.e. from classic old privates to the average mom-and-pop publics I tend to play: fairway bunkers once meant to be challenged or skirted now lost or made pointless for having become islands of sand in a sea of rough. Besides looking ugly, the narrowing of fairway lines (especially in relation to flanking hazards) tend to make moot even the modicum of challenge and fun and strategic options originally designed into the modest publics of the 60s and 70s.

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