Hero Indian Open course?

[Tim Leahy]

The course looks tough. Pete Dye? Has anybody played it in New Delhi or know anything about it. Upkeep looks immaculate.

[Mark Kiely]

It's by Gary Player. They said in the TV coverage intro that some previous pro tournament had the cut at +12, so yes, tough.

[Matt_Cohn]

Kind of like the WGC last week, I'm finding that architecture that many here would deride to be quite fascinating to watch.


The common denominator: lots of birdie chances, but trouble is, like, trouble.

[James Bennett]

Matt

it always seems to be much more fun to see a double bogey with the same ball than a double bogey after an irretrievable ball.  Much more drama.

James B

[Matt_Cohn]

Matt

it always seems to be much more fun to see a double bogey with the same ball than a double bogey after an irretrievable ball.  Much more drama.

James B

There are plenty of places where guys can make double on this course without losing a ball. And where they can make double while losing a ball. And birdies, and eagles. It's crazy and ridiculous and fascinating. I don't know if I'd enjoy playing it, but I was actually excited to get home tonight and watch it because I knew I'd see a bunch of things I rarely if ever get to see in televised golf, both in terms of architecture and play.


Innisbrook might be a "better" course, but it's pretty boring to watch on TV.


Not to oversell the course in India, but it's kind of like watching the second nine at Augusta — anything can happen, from the amazing to the insane, at any time.

[MCirba]

I'm going to have to check it out.   I am guilty of enjoying watching play at the unusual course last week in Mexico, as well.

[Kevin Stark]

Watching on TV last night it struck me as emblematic of what I remember about India. India is a sensory overload coming from every direction. It is also much more disconnected from any reference I knew in the western world than I expected before I went. The golf course felt that way to me too. It felt like someone who had spent his entire life in India and who had never seen golf before was told to build a landscape on which to play golf. It struck me as a place that fit the context of that country. It is a huge sensory overload with many characteristics that aren't recognizable anywhere else in the world. That's not good vs. bad...just very different than what we foreigners know from our experiences in golf.

[David_Tepper]

I presume this is the place:

http://www.dlfgolfresort.com/

[Tim Leahy]

I presume this is the place:

http://www.dlfgolfresort.com/

Maybe if they have a tie they can settle it with night golf on the Palmer course.

[Thomas Dai]

Seems to be a tough track with quite a bit of ball-hunting going on and the scoring isn't what we're used to - no bad thing? - but the field is I believe only half the usual size and isn't, no offence intended, of the highest quality.

I'm curious about the bunkering. I haven't seen any close-ups (yet) but from a distance/TV the built-up semi-vertical bankings appear to be something like horizontal wooden poles or even dried lengths of rolled/baked mud. Curious.

Atb

[Joe Bausch]

During yesterday's broadcast somebody decided to tally up a worst-ball score for the course after I believe the opening rounds.  It was 137!

[Jason Way]

Bunker pics from Twitter:

[Joe Bausch]

The bunkers made to look like rivetted ones:  is my assumption correct that the look comes from some polymer (maybe a rug-like material folded over)?

[Adam Lawrence]

Apparently so

[Mark Chaplin]

One of our members did quite well there so I was watching the scoring, in the first two rounds the par 5 18th had twenty 7s, six 8s, four 9s and three 10s.

I believe the hole was 6th hardest again very rare for a par 5.

[Pete Lavallee]

Player started using this revetting technique at Fancoutt in SA. They are tubular sand bags made with a synthetic material. Looks like they would hold up for much longer than turf revetting.