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Sven Nilsen

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2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« on: December 12, 2016, 11:52:22 AM »
Going to be traveling for the bulk of the month, so was hoping someone might volunteer to run this year's version of the Photos of the Year Contest.


Here's a link to last year's thread:  http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,62278.0.html.


Happy Holidays Everyone.


Sven
"As much as we have learned about the history of golf architecture in the last ten plus years, I'm convinced we have only scratched the surface."  A GCA Poster

"There's the golf hole; play it any way you please." Donald Ross

Sven Nilsen

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2016, 03:06:08 PM »
No takers?  In that case, I'll try to find the time.

Same rules as last year.

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 2016 (with the caveat that any photos from 2015 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.
"As much as we have learned about the history of golf architecture in the last ten plus years, I'm convinced we have only scratched the surface."  A GCA Poster

"There's the golf hole; play it any way you please." Donald Ross

Matt Frey, PGA

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2016, 05:44:43 PM »
I'll bite.

Golf course-related photo submission:

Manufacturers' Golf and Country Club, No. 8, 117 yards
In this photo, the wonderful quarry par-3 at "Mannies" is seen in the chilly late afternoon of September 27, 2016, in a steady rainfall.



People and traditions of the game photo submission:

A PGA Professional at the site of his Association's founding
As PGA member of five years, I took this photo next to the commemorative plaque on the exterior of the Hotel Martinique in Manhattan, a plaque that marks the site of the founding of the PGA of America in 1916. This picture was taken shortly after the conclusion of the 100th PGA Annual Meeting, held just a few blocks away, on November 11, 2016, during the PGA of America's centennial year..

« Last Edit: December 14, 2016, 10:26:57 AM by Matt Frey, PGA »

Tommy Williamsen

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2016, 06:25:51 PM »
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Where there is no love, put love; there you will find love.
St. John of the Cross

"Deep within your soul-space is a magnificent cathedral where you are sweet beyond telling." Rumi

Tommy Williamsen

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2016, 06:33:57 PM »
Where there is no love, put love; there you will find love.
St. John of the Cross

"Deep within your soul-space is a magnificent cathedral where you are sweet beyond telling." Rumi

Matthew Mollica

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2016, 08:06:45 PM »
Golf course related photo category.
Par 3, 16th hole, Royal Melbourne (East)
"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."

BCowan

Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2016, 08:18:10 PM »
Champion Hills #15
A.

B.  Dormie's clubhouse

« Last Edit: December 13, 2016, 09:02:56 PM by Ben Cowan (Michigan) »

Ian Andrew

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2016, 08:55:54 PM »

« Last Edit: December 14, 2016, 12:51:36 PM by Ian Andrew »
With every golf development bubble, the end was unexpected and brutal....

Ronald Montesano

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2016, 08:59:16 PM »
Is Brian Walters a GCA guy? If not, I don't think that you can submit his photo for the contest.
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BCowan

Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2016, 09:03:13 PM »
Ok, I changed photos

Guy Nicholson

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2016, 10:56:43 PM »

Two for the course category. One of my best friends is headed for fatherhood and its attendant golf deprivation, so I convinced him to make a last-minute run from Ontario to Nova Scotia to see Cabot Cliffs in mid-October. He loved links golf and the weather was brisk and glorious. Pictured are the 2nd hole (about 300 yards from this tee) and 10th hole (about 490).


IMG_4033 by Guynick, on Flickr


IMG_4061 by Guynick, on Flickr
« Last Edit: December 13, 2016, 10:59:06 PM by Guy Nicholson »

Jeff Taylor

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2016, 11:05:37 PM »
Atlantic City Country Club



Keith Phillips

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2016, 12:12:22 AM »
Sven, thanks for doing this - it is one of my favorite annual threads and if I had any competency with photo posting I might have 'leaned in!'

Wayne_Freedman

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2016, 12:47:48 AM »

Category A: First of two entries: Departing the par-3, 8th at Sea Ranch Golf Links in Gualala, California, as a springtime squall blows in.


Here is a link to see the uncompressed frame on Flickr: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/138550035@N08/31575056816/in/dateposted-public/







14mm; f5.6; 1/3200 @iso200
« Last Edit: December 24, 2016, 02:25:59 AM by Wayne_Freedman »

Chris Roselle

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2016, 09:16:57 AM »



Setting hole locations for the 36-hole final match in the 116th BMW Philadelphia Amateur Championship at Merion GC's famed East Course






What happens to a nice pop-up tent when 50-60 mph winds pick up at Galloway National Golf Club

Michael Moore

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2016, 09:23:42 AM »
Streamsong Resort
Bowling Green, Florida
Red Course - sixteenth hole


Metaphor is social and shares the table with the objects it intertwines and the attitudes it reconciles. Opinion, like the Michelin inspector, dines alone. - Adam Gopnik, The Table Comes First

Brian Finn

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2016, 09:55:38 AM »
I'm not much of a photographer, but snapped a few good ones in Scotland this Summer.  I don't suppose any will win a contest, so I will just share 3 of my favorites.

Rainbow over the Old Course


"Bathtub" at Cruden Bay


2nd Green at Royal Aberdeen
« Last Edit: December 14, 2016, 10:00:25 AM by Brian Finn »
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Eric Smith

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2016, 10:25:14 AM »
Golf Courses

Mullen, Nebraska
Sunset on the final Saturday of the season at Dismal River Golf Club.
This is hole No. 1 of the Nicklaus Course.






People

St. Andrews, Scotland
Marty Bonnar and John Kavanaugh share a laugh in the Dunvegan.





MClutterbuck

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2016, 11:01:42 AM »

San Martin de los Andes, Patagonia, Argentina


El Desafio Hole #2, par 4, 384 yards. Sunset.





Ed Brzezowski

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2016, 11:04:58 AM »



Setting hole locations for the 36-hole final match in the 116th BMW Philadelphia Amateur Championship at Merion GC's famed East Course






What happens to a nice pop-up tent when 50-60 mph winds pick up at Galloway National Golf Club

Chris you should point out;
1 you almost cut your finger off that morning
2 the tent went rolling down the fairway in pursuit of a player, who is also on the EC. Justice???
We have a pool and a pond, the pond would be good for you.

David_Tepper

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2016, 11:54:45 AM »
Wayne Freedman -

Great Sea Ranch pic! Thanks for posting. It's been too long since I was last there.

DT

Thomas Dai

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2016, 12:02:30 PM »
Category A - Paradise-on-Sea in the sun. The 13th green at Carne


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Jon Cavalier

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2016, 01:06:32 PM »
Thanks for stepping up, Sven.


Category A
"Punchbowl" - National Golf Links of America - 5/12/16



Category B
Gracie at Stonewall - 11/2/16
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Josh Bills

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2016, 01:12:48 PM »
Never good to follow Jon Cavalier's photos, but here are mine:

PEOPLE

Three of the best caddies at St. Andrews, thank you Ben H.  (official entry)





Old Tom (Eric S) on the 9th on the New Course on a perfect night.





GOLF COURSE

I have the same photo that Brian Finn provided with the rainbow so that is my vote!  My official entry comes from N. Berwick, where I was fortunate enough to play here with a great group.  The photo brings back one of the best golf days I have ever had which included playing Glen Club in the morning, N. Berwick in the afternoon, Kilspindie in the evening and arriving at the Dunvegan barely before midnight (due to driving on my own and getting lost) to have a few drinks with a bunch of golf nuts.   


(official entry) Perfection



A few others from that amazing trip to Scotland:


Gullane No. 2, Hole 18



The Old Course, Eden



The Old Course on a Sunday Morning



Jon Wiggett

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Re: 2016 Photos of the Year Contest
« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2016, 01:20:34 PM »








Behind the 7th at Tobermory

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