Photo Sourcing - Confidential Guide vol. 2

[Tom_Doak]

With the text largely complete, I am now getting back to sourcing photos for volume 2 of The Confidential Guide, covering courses in the Americas (winter destinations), from the Carolinas to the Caribbean through the Southwest, California, Hawaii, and Central and South America.

To date, in addition to my own pictures, I've tentatively planned to use photos submitted by Kyle Henderson, Stewart Abramson, Ronald Montesano, Tom Dunne, Robin Hiseman, Ken Banks, Andy Chao, and Michael Henderson.

But, I'm still looking for pictures of the following courses:

Gourmet's Choice - L.A.C.C. (North), Mid Ocean, Shadow Creek
Florida - Streamsong (Blue)
Oklahoma - Dornick Hills [cliff hole], Karsten Creek or Oklahoma City G & CC
Texas - Austin Golf Club or Austin C.C.
Arizona - Desert Forest or Troon North or We Ko Pa or Whisper Rock
California - Pebble Beach or The Preserve
California - San Diego CC or Torrey Pines
Caribbean - Sandy Lane or Royal Westmoreland
Costa Rica - Peninsula Papagayo
Brazil - any course in Brazil


If you have a picture you'd like to submit for use in the book, please email it to me at confguidegolf@gmail.com, or post it here for consideration.  For every photo used you will get a free copy of Volume 2, and the chance to buy additional copies at the author's discount.

Thanks for your interest!

[Phil McDade]

Tom:

Ed Oden's "Maxwell Smart" thread from a few years ago has the best photos of the cliff hole at Dornick Hill's I've seen here:

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,49744.0.html

From the thread:

Then there is Dornick Hills.  The “cliff” at Dornick Hills is a massive rock outcropping cutting through the back nine.  While Maxwell utilizes the cliff as an elevated tee on both the 15th and 17th holes, it is the way he incorporates this feature into the 16th hole that is as bold of an architectural move as I have seen anywhere.  How many architects would set the green on a risk/reward reachable par 5 on top of a 25 foot high natural rock wall?  Maxwell did...



I can honestly say that going for the green in two on the 16th at Dornick Hills is one of the most exhilarating and memorable shots I have ever encountered.  It is right up there with the approach on the 8th hole at Pebble Beach and the tee shot on the Road Hole at St. Andrews.  Pulling it off and having an eagle putt is a stroke I will remember for the rest of my life.  Is there a greater compliment that can be made to a course than it has a shot that is so indelibly etched in my mind that my adrenaline will start pumping every time I think about it?  My only regret is that I did not fail to reach the green in two so that I could see what it is like to play this shot as a third…

[Jason Way]

Dan Moore has outstanding Desert Forest photos.

[Matthew Petersen]

A few of the requested courses ...

We Ko Pa


Saguaro course, #15


Saguaro course, #2


Troon North


Monument course, #17


Monument course, #11


Pebble Beach


#8


#6 (from #14 fairway)

[Bret Lawrence]

Streamsong Blue:


Looking back at the 5th green from the 6th fairway


7th hole


9th hole


10th hole


18th hole

[Mike Hendren]

Dangit!  3 rounds and dinner with the Great One last fall,  unrelenting gushing and butt-boy behavior and he still doesn't know my last name.  

This ranks right up there with returning home for a funeral and not being recognized by Miss Ripley 1975.

Bogey HENDREN

[Craig Van Egmond]

Tom,

    Any particular hole you are interested in at Karsten Creek? I have more than a few.



   

[Mark Saltzman]

Tom, you're welcome to use any photos from this tour I did of OKC... http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php?topic=53604.0

[Benjamin Litman]

Tom,

I went ahead and excerpted below my favorite Streamsong Blue pictures for you (feel free to use any others from my larger photo tour, if you prefer: http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,60276.0.html). I've also included below several from Pebble Beach (though I'm guessing others have ones with better, if less representative, lighting conditions) and Torrey Pines. Would vertically oriented pictures work well/better with the book? If so, I can pass more of those along as well (I've included only a few here).

Thanks in advance,

Benjamin

Streamsong Blue (all photos from late-December 2014)

Holes 3 and 4 (viewed from the fairway on 13 across the lake)


Hole 4 (approach)


Hole 6 (tee) (I prefer the first of these compositionally, but I include the second because it has better lighting on the dunes in the distance)




Hole 7 (tee)


Hole 7 (left side of green, with surrounding bunkers, dunes, and sharp falloff at front)


Hole 7 (from walking path to Hole 8, looking back toward the clubhouse)


Hole 9 (tee) (I have several horizontally oriented pictures of this view, although I think the vertical one works best; in fact, this is probably my favorite of all my Streamsong Blue pictures)


Hole 9 (fairway)


Hole 10 (tee)


Hole 12 (swamp/green complex)


Hole 13 (fairway, looking right at the fairway bunker)


Hole 15 (tee)


Hole 15 (fairway, looking over the Principal's Nose bunker toward the green)


Hole 17 (fairway, looking left back over the course toward the lodge)


Hole 17 (fairway)


Hole 18 (green, looking backward up the fairway)


Pebble Beach (all photos from mid-July 2014)

Hole 4 (viewed from 16 green)


Hole 5 (green, with Hole 6 in the distance)


Hole 6 (viewed from 4 green)


Hole 6


Hole 6 (viewed from the right side of 14)


Hole 7 (tee)


Hole 7 (side)


Hole 8 (green, looking backward toward the fairway and tee)


Hole 9 (fairway, with Hole 10 in the distance)


Hole 9 (green, viewed from the side)


Hole 10 (green, with 11 tee in the foreground and 8 and 9 in the background)


Torrey Pines (all photos from early January 2014)

North Course, Hole 6 (tee)


South Course, Hole 3 (green)

[JLahrman]

On the negative side, this is a really crappy picture of Austin Country Club.

On the plus side, it's extremely current having been taken only about a half hour ago. Additionally, I took it while standing on Austin's iconic Pennybacker Bridge.

[Ronald Montesano]

(A-H part of the comment deleted)

Hendren...Hendren...Hendren...Hendren...Hendren

Now I'll never forget it.

[Jeff Bergeron]

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[Jeff Bergeron]

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[Peter Pallotta]

Gents - terrific pictures all around, thanks. A pleasure to see how one photo might highlight (especially) the architecture, while another the aesthetics, and a third the quality/nature of the site as a whole etc. Thanks to Phil for a simple and outstanding (or simply outstanding) 'architectural' photo of Dornick Hills; it made we wish Mr Maxwell was alive so I could kiss him! What bold and elegant moxie!

Peter

[Benjamin Litman]

Have none of you heard of emailing him the photos, rather than clogging up a thread with them?

Ron: I actually wanted to send my photos directly to Tom at the email address he provided, but the "" format we use here on GCA doesn't work on regular email, meaning I would have had to send an email (or two or three) with 20-something raw files (or send him links to all my photos, but that would have required Tom to click on each one, and I didn't want to unnecessarily burden him). And Tom did say we could post them on this thread, whose sole purpose is to be clogged up with pictures. And people here generally like pictures, so I went with it. If you know of a way to send pictures the way we post them here, please let me know. Thanks.

[JLahrman]

If you know of a way to send pictures the way we post them here, please let me know. Thanks.

Any of y'all use Dropbox?

[Benjamin Litman]

I do, but I don't know if Tom does (he asked either for emails or posts here), and it also requires an additional step.

[JLahrman]

I do, but I don't know if Tom does (he asked either for emails or posts here), and it also requires an additional step.

True but it is very nice for picture sharing once you sign up.

[Robert Mercer Deruntz]

San Diego CC  18th


San Diego CC  4th


SAn Diego CC  14th


San Diego CC  15th




San Diego CC   2nd


Desert Forrest  11th







Desert Forrest  4th




Desert Forrest 18th