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Sven Nilsen

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2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD (WINNERS ANNOUNCED)
« on: December 10, 2015, 02:02:16 PM »
Let's do this.

Welcome to the 2015 Photos of the Year Contest.

This year, we're going to do things a little different:

1.  Two submissions per contestant, one for each of the categories noted in item 4 below (for posts with more, unless you designate your entries we're going to take the first two photos).  Please don't use this thread to unload your Photobucket Library;

2.  Photos have to have been taken in 2015 (with the caveat that any photos from 2014 that were taken after last year's contest ended are admissible);

3.  Submission period will run until December 26th (photo must be posted, not linked);

4.  Following the submission period, the Committee will choose five photos as the finalists (to be posted on the 27th), in each of two divisions, (A) one for golf course related photos, and (B) one for the people and traditions of the game;

5.  Voting on the finalists will be open to all with one vote per participant (votes can be submitted by PM or by post on this thread any time between the 27th and the 31st);

6.  The winners will be announced on January 1st; and

7.  You're allowed to nominate a picture taken by someone else, and that picture is eligible for the contest and does not count as the photographer's submission.  It does count as one of your submissions.  Any prize would go to the actual photo taker, not the submitter.

As always, these rules are subject to change at any time due to the whim of the Chairman.

This year's committee is comprised of the Chairman and last year's winner, if they choose to participate.

Here's a link to last years contest for anyone feeling a bit nostalgic:

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,60062.0.html
« Last Edit: January 02, 2016, 11:02:33 AM by Sven Nilsen »
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Chris Roselle

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2015, 02:15:32 PM »


A) Sunrise over Philadelphia Country Club




B) Photo taken during the 111th GAP Open Championship held this year at the Wissahickon Course at the Philadelphia Cricket Club...I had to write individual hole by hole scores for 78 players playing over 36 holes of stroke play...

Matt Frey, PGA

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2015, 03:14:12 PM »
Division A Submission:

No. 16, "Short," at Fishers Island, as seen from the teeing ground (October 17, 2015).



Division B Submission:

PGA Professional Matt Dobyns is greeted by his family amid a swarm of media members behind the Philadelphia Cricket Club's Wissahickon's 18th green moments after winning his second PGA Professional Championship (July 1, 2015).




And not for submission, just for grins, one of my egotistical favorites (there is a lot of history in those trophies): https://s3.amazonaws.com/PGAmagAmbassador/15annualtrophiesformal-crop.jpg
« Last Edit: December 10, 2015, 05:46:37 PM by Matt Frey, PGA »

Josh Bills

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2015, 04:20:50 PM »
July 2015, Sunset


« Last Edit: December 10, 2015, 10:39:05 PM by Josh Bills »

Ronald Montesano

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2015, 04:30:19 PM »
Submission to People and Traditions of the game...He's wearing plus-fours, carrying a leather bag filled with hickory clubs, at a course built to give back to the people of Oregon (Bandon Preserve), in a moment of repose.






« Last Edit: December 10, 2015, 04:32:35 PM by Ronald Montesano »
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Dan Kelly

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2015, 04:35:47 PM »
Didn't take too many photos this year, but I will remember both of these fondly:


From the 8th tee at Midland Hills CC (Roseville, Minnesota), the alleged "Cape" hole. Not a great "architecture" picture, but just a pretty picture of a lovely golf course on a calm, late-fall afternoon (Nov.2) in Minnesota:





On June 27, after our cruel loss on the last hole of the 5th Major shootout, my partner Dan Moore and I played some more golf ... but cut it short as sunset neared, so that I could drive around the Red Course at Dismal River as Dan did some serious architecture photography. You might see some of it later in this thread. I love this view of the photographer at work:




« Last Edit: December 10, 2015, 05:46:38 PM by Dan Kelly »
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Kalen Braley

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2015, 06:51:18 PM »



BCowan

Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2015, 10:56:31 PM »
Ravisloe



Sylvania CC #3

« Last Edit: December 14, 2015, 05:39:25 PM by Ben Cowan (Michigan) »

Anton

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2015, 02:22:42 PM »
Berkleigh Golf Club has turned into my favorite public track here in the Lehigh Valley.  I've tried to frequent the course after work when I don't have a chance to play my home club. 
From the 15th tee.  mid length par 3 with a lot of bail out space. 


My son on the longish par 4 -13th looking to the heavens for his first birdie......   which has yet to arrive.  But sharing golf with him has been the best and I have found a new appreciation for the game through teaching him. 
« Last Edit: December 11, 2015, 02:43:38 PM by Anton »
“I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted”

jonathan_becker

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2015, 02:44:25 PM »

Category B....


Eric Smith sizing up his eagle putt and taking one last look for the day out over the Peconic.


Curtis Loop

Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2015, 04:18:49 PM »

The approach to the 3rd at Sebonack...




Ian Andrew

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2015, 04:45:13 PM »
With every golf development bubble, the end was unexpected and brutal....

Ian Andrew

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2015, 04:49:18 PM »
A/ the one above is 17th at Glens Falls


B/ The one below is Royal North Devon


With every golf development bubble, the end was unexpected and brutal....

Neil Johnston

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2015, 04:56:13 PM »
Though this is technically of a golf course (Ballyneal), it's probably better aligned with the second category. What a memorable place.

GCA photo GCAPIC_zps8soyit0p.jpg

Eric Smith

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2015, 05:41:17 PM »
The photo ...




... and the photographer


Michael Whitaker

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2015, 12:30:59 AM »
Course: Rainbow over the 18th green at the Old Course in St Andrews (snapped by Bill McBride)







People: Bill McBride & me visiting with 92 year old Archie Baird at his museum in Gullane, Scotland.


« Last Edit: December 20, 2015, 07:05:01 PM by Michael Whitaker »
"Solving the paradox of proportionality is the heart of golf architecture."  - Tom Doak (11/20/05)

Matthew Essig

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2015, 01:52:20 PM »
A) The Lone Sheep on the Sheep Ranch





B) The Calm Before the Storm (Jordan Spieth, Wednesday at the U.S. Open)


"Good GCA should offer an interesting golfing challenge to the golfer not a difficult golfing challenge." Jon Wiggett

Ruediger Meyer

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2015, 06:13:23 PM »

A: The Best thing about the Castle Course according to many: The view towards St. Andrews - especially in the twilight hours...




B: St. Andrews Dogs' Putting Club



Matthew Mollica

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2015, 05:05:29 AM »



A shot of Brian Walshe playing the 16th at Cape Wickham.
« Last Edit: December 13, 2015, 05:16:28 AM by Matthew Mollica »
"The truth about golf courses has a slightly different expression for every golfer. Which of them, one might ask, is without the most definitive convictions concerning the merits or deficiencies of the links he plays over? Freedom of criticism is one of the last privileges he is likely to forgo."

Jason Hines

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2015, 02:48:57 PM »
I am embarrassed to admit that I only took two photos this year and what's worse is that they were of my home course.  So literally, here goes nothing.  A 270 yard par 4, up hill, into a tightly guarded green complex.



Brett Morris

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2015, 05:40:06 PM »

Doug Bolls

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2015, 06:35:40 PM »
Gentlemen - I will admit my ignorance on posting photos.  I have looked at the various suggestions from 2009-2012.  I am currently storing my photos in the Amazon Cloud since I'm a prime member there.
I do have one photo to submit - any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.
db

Doug Bolls

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2015, 07:55:07 PM »
Taken at Country View GC - a public course built in a flood plain about 15 min south of Dallas.
Enjoy!
db





Peter Pallotta

Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2015, 09:36:06 PM »
Thanks much, gents - you all do terrific work. And over and over, with each photo, all I kept thinking was "place".

The voting on this is going to be very tough.

Peter


Benjamin Litman

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Re: 2015 PHOTOS OF THE YEAR THREAD
« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2015, 12:29:05 AM »
The Ghosts of Shinnecock Hills (November 6, 2015)



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