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John Kavanaugh

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If we went 10 years without a new course being built...
« on: March 22, 2017, 11:12:24 AM »
would that first and only course be a lock for the world top 100?

Tommy Williamsen

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Re: If we went 10 years without a new course being built...
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2017, 11:31:20 AM »
No, but it might win best new.
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Peter Pallotta

Re: If we went 10 years without a new course being built...
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2017, 11:40:11 AM »
Yes.
10 years from now Matty G will still be in his prime.
It might even open Top 10


jeffwarne

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Re: If we went 10 years without a new course being built...
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2017, 03:01:33 PM »
Yes.
10 years from now Matty G will still be in his prime.
It might even open Top 10


and the cart girls will still all be 25....



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John Kavanaugh

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Re: If we went 10 years without a new course being built...
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2017, 03:10:21 PM »
There is an interesting question here beyond the jokes. What style and where would the course be built?

Peter Pallotta

Re: If we went 10 years without a new course being built... New
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2017, 05:52:51 PM »
J - you asked if it would be Top 100? The answer is yes - and indeed, I think it likely to be Top 10 worthy! It matters not, alas, in what style or where it is built. In a world of 1 key developer and 1 key marketer, we'll take whatever it is, and like it. Pick one - the Baltics, say, and an homage to early Pete Dye. Plenty of golfers will pay to travel there, and stylistically it could be pitched as a rebirth of an uniquely *American* approach to golf course architecture. How can it *not* knock one of the Cabots or a Bandon weak link down a few pegs? It has to. That's why it's being built! The cats in the bag and the bag's in the river
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