American Pie course?

[David Wigler]

Tommy,

I was thinking more along the lines of the tears and internal conflict that scene must have brought you; given how f'n funny the scene was but at the same time it clearly was desecration of an edible desert item.  
 

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Tom, My Grandfather also used to golf there too, back when it had some par 4's. My grandparents lived over on Moorpark and Colfax.

[Tommy_Naccarato]

David,
Only if it was a canoli!

[THuckaby2]

Tommy - VERY cool!  Oh man, North Hollywood streets... this is hitting very close to home.

I played SCG&T fairly recently with my Dad - man was that a trip down memory lane... and I'm not kidding re the greens.  Oh, they're not all any big deal, but some really do need to be seen.

TH

[Chris Perry]

Speaking of golf movies with locations, Happy Gilmore was filmed in a few places around town, some being Furry Creek, Swan-e-set, and the course I'll probably be working at soon, Riverway. I was playing there the day they were doing the batting cage scene, and Carl Weathers walked into the cafe while we were eating lunch. That guy is absolutely massive in person, he's got shoulders that would make Brock Lester look skinny.  

It was also really odd to see them cut to other places completely different from the course they were on. You'd see him tee off on the first tee at Riverway, fly though the air at God knows where (some large treed course where Riverway is open Links syle) and then land on the green at Riverway's first again (which BTW is about a 380 carry from the Blues, 420 from the Blacks, hehe)

There was also a Jackie Chan movie (Rumble in the Bronx I think) where the end is at Swan-e-set as well, but what's funny is to see a hyrofoil careening down the streets of Downtown Vancouver and then 5 seconds later rolling down the fairway at Swan-e, when it is a good hours drive in a CAR much less a hydrofoil from the Downtown core.

Knockaround Guys also has a cut scene on the DVD where they are supposed to be playing at Winged Foot, but I think it is an imposter course, someone here could probably give the scoop on that better than me.

[Michael Dugger]

Which course was it that Bob Barker was pounding Happy on??

"you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep!"

"Oh your hands hurt, well now your back hurts, you just pulled landscaping duty!"

"How about a nice warm cup of shut the hell up!"

[Scott_Burroughs]

Michael,

The Bob Barker scenes were at Furry Creek.

[Chris Perry]

^Yes^

And it has to be one of the craziest and toughest 6000 yard courses ever built. For most it plays way tougher than it's 69.1 rating.

The first drive is either straight with any club in your bag or its wet left or part of the ecosystem right. It's also drivable which baits you to hit the big stick.

It has 2 par 5's that aren't really reachable in 2 that are 441 and 485 yards just because of the topography that they are on and the clubs you have to hit to keep the ball in play on them. Imagine hitting 4 iron 3 wood wedge and then on a hole that is LONGER hitting Driver wedge wedge, LOL. The latter hole also has a green that sent 3 weak putts in a row back to my feet untill I pulled a Daly and whacked it off the back of the green while still in mid-roll.

13 has a carry of what seems like almost 250 yards from the back tee over a sea of junk.

Also, unless you are a triathelete looking for a brisk workout you won't walk this course, I don't even think they let you anyways.

[Evan Fleisher]

Scott,

Are you sure about that?  I looked to me like course in Reno/Tahoe they use for the celebrity golf tounrnament every year...but then again I could be completely off my rocker.

[Scott_Burroughs]

Evan,

Positive.  And that was Chris Perry, British Columbia resident from previous post, confirming it.

[Allan Long]

Tom and Tommy,

You guys are tearring me up inside with all the talk of Los Feliz and Studio City. It makes me think of another par-3 course,
Twin Lakes off I-10 in El Monte now just a memory. A trip to Felippe's would cheer me up though.

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Allan, An Electrical Contractor I used to work for four years, office was right around the corner from Twin Lakes behind where the Ole's Lumber and Hardware store used to be on Garvey. I remember the day they closed it down. Many people were quite unhappy about that one, especialy since it sat for years until something was built, which was condos and a school. Lots of El Monte oldtimers congregated at that bar there at the clubhouse too, and that may have had a lot to do with the uproar.

[Tommy_Naccarato]

And yes, Felippe's would be on the agenda of your next trip here. The owner, Richard Bender is an very good aquaintance and good friend of my sister!


I have a bottle of that mustard inmy refridgerator. Yikes is that HOT! But good! I drown my sandwich in that stuff when visiting there!