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Mark Bourgeois

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Re: Easy AND Interesting
« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2014, 08:46:05 AM »
Think of a course you know that is interesting but not easy. If you moved up one set of tees would it still be interesting? Why / why not?
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Sean_A

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Re: Easy AND Interesting
« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2014, 12:17:22 PM »
Think of a course you know that is interesting but not easy. If you moved up one set of tees would it still be interesting? Why / why not?

I could give the same answer, North Berwick.  Where is this conversation going?  I feel like my priest is trying to get me to confess  :D

Just come out with it.  I know you are bursting to rabbit on about Westward Ho!  ;D

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Mark Bourgeois

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Re: Easy AND Interesting
« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2014, 01:33:20 PM »
Actually I was thinking of the comments regarding Gamble Sands, so there. 

As for where I'm going, the most-difficult course to design must be one that's easy yet interesting, yes? In which case I'm curious how to do that. I would guess the easy way to do that is to make it short with roiling greens. But why don't we up the challenge from there: what features enables a course to be easy yet interesting without necessarily being 5,000 yards long and / or Three Jack City?

Can it be done?

I would add that I'm interested in how you would do it if starting today. Do old courses changed utterly by technology (I&B + agronomy) even count -- or are those just happy accidents?

Now that you've insisted on revealing our destination, it's your responsibility to make the drive interesting. You're on the clock, get going.  :-*
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