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Greg Smith

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Name that course: Ran's painting
« on: July 27, 2015, 09:32:37 AM »
Is that the 13th at Lookout Mountain, which I guess would have been Fairyland back then?
Background certainly looks like it belongs to a ridge-top course somewhere in Appalachia.
But I don't know if Weaver's time-table and that of Fairyland coincide.
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Rees Milikin

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2015, 10:27:45 AM »
I think it is Roaring Gap, but it certainly looks very similar to Lookout's 2nd hole (originally 18th).
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Ben Hollerbach

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2015, 10:49:02 AM »
My first gut thought was the second at Lookout Mountain as well.
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Mark Pritchett

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2015, 11:29:23 AM »
It certainly looks like the penultimate hole at Roaring Gap Club. 
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Greg Smith

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2015, 11:51:04 AM »
http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn93065738/1929-06-27/ed-1/seq-23.pdf
OK, Roaring Gap.  Here is the newspaper ad about the "Aristocrat of Courses".  Hope my link works.
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O fools!  who drudge from morn til night
And dream your way of life is wise,
Come hither!  prove a happier plight,
The golfer lives in Paradise!                      

John Somerville, The Ballade of the Links at Rye (1898)

Rees Milikin

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2015, 11:53:36 AM »

June 27, 1929 Elkin Tribune

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Rory Connaughton

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2015, 01:35:22 PM »
Kings
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Rees Milikin

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2015, 04:04:28 PM »
These are some photos from Dunlop White, sourced from JC Jones thread: http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,59712.0.html

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Jim_Kennedy

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2015, 10:34:23 PM »

A couple of photos of Raynor's work at RG in NC, plus other courses and info from the state, found in this travelogue by O. B. Keeler.


 https://archive.org/stream/golfinnorthcarol00keel#page/44/mode/2up/search/blowing+rock




ed: This booklet was published in 1938, and 27 of the 84 courses listed in the directory still had sand greens.
« Last Edit: July 29, 2015, 12:01:24 AM by Jim_Kennedy »
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Thomas Dai

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2015, 05:43:47 AM »
It isn't, but it doesn't half look like the 16th at Stinchcombe Hill.
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Bill Crane

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2015, 08:48:55 AM »
Looks like Pilot Mountain north of Winston Salem in the background.
My daughter has a friend at ELON U whose family are members.   Might have to take them up on an offer to play it!
 
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Tommy Williamsen

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2015, 09:36:34 AM »
It has to be Roaring Gap #17.
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Jim_Kennedy

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2015, 03:56:38 PM »
« Last Edit: July 30, 2015, 03:59:00 PM by Jim_Kennedy »
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Ben Hollerbach

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Re: Name that course: Ran's painting
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2015, 05:35:04 PM »
Quote from: Jim_Kennedy on July 28, 2015, 10:34:23 PM

A couple of photos of Raynor's work at RG in NC, plus other courses and info from the state, found in this travelogue by O. B. Keeler.


 https://archive.org/stream/golfinnorthcarol00keel#page/44/mode/2up/search/blowing+rock


ed: This booklet was published in 1938, and 27 of the 84 courses listed in the directory still had sand greens.


Fascinating booklet, Thanks for sharing!


Interesting Items of note, on page 41 it is mentioned that Donald Ross did not design the course at Asheville Country Club (The current Grove Park Inn course). The photo on page 18 is mislabeled, That is the 15th green at Beaver Lake ( The current Country Club of Asheville course)
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