best architect\developer one liner

[Josh Stevens]

In light of the rubbish we will no doubt hear from Mickelson national.

What are the most ridiculous claims, slogans, verbage we have heard from architects or developers about how amazing their new course is or will be.

Nothing from donald trump- he is too easy

[Michael Moore]

"I just flew in from China because it's the only place in the world to earn a living as an architect or developer. Boy, are my arms tired!"

[Tom_Doak]

Not the most ridiculous, but my favorite are the local ads for Boyne Highlands and their related properties.

When they were developing Bay Harbor years ago, while building the course, they advertised that the waterfront site had much in common with Pebble Beach.  Then, once it opened, their ad line changed to "people are comparing it to Pebble Beach"!

Their latest ad starts out something like ... "Robert Trent Jones, Donald Ross, and Arthur Hills are some of the greatest designers of all time.  If you are playing one of their courses, you know you are in for something special," and then goes on to talk about Boyne Highlands.  Now, the sneaky part is that they are advertising their Donald Ross Memorial course, designed by Bill Newcomb, there, so they don't actually say it was designed by Donald Ross, they just bring up his name and let you assume it.

[Ian Mackenzie]

About 15 years ago, I played some alligator-infested goat track on Sanibel Island (Florida) that advertised, "Come enjoy XXX Golf Club - where water comes into play on 27 shots!"

I am not making this up.

[Michael Graham]

David McLay Kidd on the gWest course in Perthshire. 

“Without question, the best inland site I have ever seen for a golf course…The tumbling, rolling landscape covered by solid heathland makes this an exquisite anomaly in nature."

[Bill Brightly]

Architect saying the right thing to the wrong person:

Old member: "I don't like the new green (which had to be re-positioned for safety reasons.) I can't hold the green with my 4 iron."

Architect: "Maybe you are playing the wrong set of tees?"


Good bye architect...

[Terry Lavin]

Chambers Bay being called "America's St. Andrews" stands out as the apogee of gasbaggery in golf course promotion.

[Bill Brightly]

[ As I got about 20 feet from him we seemed to lock eyes which awarded me with my "At-one-with-nature" moment of the trip. Not another soul in sight and it enveloped me in a feeling of serenity that comes around far too......

Nice job distracting the pelican. I'm sure the gator appreciated it.

[Garland Bayley]

Chambers Bay being called "America's St. Andrews" stands out as the apogee of gasbaggery in golf course promotion.

The just borrowed the line from Astoria CC.

[Tony Dear]

So many to choose from of course, but the one that continually gets my goat is Chambers Bay's insistence it is 'Pure Links Golf'. It might look, play, smell and even sound like a links course, but a $21m budget and 1.4m cubic yards or dirt moved suggest it wasn't exactly pure. Don't get me wrong though, it's a superb course with numerous excellent holes. And the 2015 US Open is going to be huge.

[Ryan Hillenbrand]

"This is as good of a course of any I've built"

[Gary Sato]

From the web site at Half Moon Bay in California.

"Here at Half Moon Bay Golf Links, we pay homage to the traditional spirit that founded the sport hundreds of years ago, while incorporating the technology of new age golf."

[Peter Pallotta]

Gary - strikes me that folks should start flipping the phrase around, just for something fresh:

"Here at Serenity by the Sea, we pay homage to the technology that founded golf over a hundred years ago, while incorporating the traditions of a new-age spirit into the game we play today".

Makes about as much sense as anything else....

Peter

[Joe Bausch]

Perhaps the first one I ever really noticed, concerning Bulle Rock:

"I did not undo God's Work"  -Pete Dye

[Steve Lang]

  Roy Case generally destroying the character of the Woodlands CC North Course in 2002, and decimating truly one of the best & toughest par 4's in Houston (the 15th per the Chronicle) and someone having the balls to put up a sign which touted:

"A LEGENDARY DESIGN"
OPENING SOON

friggin disaster, still pisses me off

[Ronald Montesano]

How about

"God measures men by what they are. Not what they in wealth possess.  That vibrant message chimes afar.
The voice of Inverness"

[Howard Riefs]

Impossible to select just one line from the ever-present hyperbole on Nicklaus' website:


"Jack Nicklaus has had the pleasure of taking Mother Nature's best piece of links land and signed his name to something unique."

"Gleneagles is the finest parcel of land in the world I have ever been given to work with."

"Rarely will one encounter a golf course as magnificent as The Country Club."

"Shoal Creek remains one of the most attractive golf courses in the country."

"The highest level of design services from the Nicklaus group, the Signature Design ensures consistent on-site participation by the legend himself."

"The the 18-hole New Course provides a Scottish links masterpiece."

"One of Jack's early designs and steeped in the finest traditions of classic golf course architecture."

[Ronald Montesano]

So what's the point of this thread? From the same bunch of guys that disparages the new look/new focus of Golf Digest (GQ), comes a thread about marketing and advertising. None of the architects write their copy. Take this to a financial DG.

[Thomas Dai]

From the other side of the coin - and with Sept 2016 in mind -

"....lacks only 80 acres of corn and a few cows. They ruined a good farm when they built this course"

atb

[Steve Lang]

  Ronald,

Point of thread must surely be irritating

"The ultimate source for golf in Buffalo-Niagara"

[John_Conley]

From the other side of the coin - and with Sept 2016 in mind -

"....lacks only 80 acres of corn and a few cows. They ruined a good farm when they built this course"

atb

Thomas, one story I read that was pretty funny:

A pro (I think it was Don January) stopped by a few months or the year before the US Open.  On the first tee, with nondescript surroundings, his caddy pointed to a cloud in the sky and told him it was the place to aim.

"Son, I don't aim at clouds!"

A lot has been made of Dave Hill's famous quote.  Not many recall that he nearly won the event.

[Paul Gray]

I am, without exception, offended each and every time I read 'links style golf course. '

[Steve Lang]

 .. now some are good, reversed from original, like, "Where Canada Meets Scotland"