Aerial of the Day #409 - 6 Oct 2003

[Scott_Burroughs]

Back to the U.K. (Still England or Wales only).

This should be one at least most of you (red-blooded) guys
should have seen before (some as far back as 39 years ago!).

[Mike Hendren]

There are bunkers galore down there.  

Jeff Spicoli slang for surfer magazine?

Mike

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Unfortunately the most famous hole here is almost invisible - it's at 9 o'clock from the 'clubhouse' beyond what looks like a ghastly building site.  You frequently get just this view if you take off in a westerly direction from one of London's airports - except that it's invariably raining.....  I fear the new holes are a bit of an odd job lot.

[Scott_Burroughs]

Mike,

You used a (variant of a) clue I was going to use.  More
recently used in a funny commercial where the CEO hands
over the reigns to his surfer-like nephew or grandson or
something and everyone owning stock in the company bails.



80's Folk/punk band whose original name (cut short to named
known by) was Gaelic for "kiss my arse".

Current name of club (changed from more well-known name)
sounds a bit like a short version London suburb.

"Alas, poor Auric!"

[Andy Levett]

Worth playing if you can't get on Royal St Mark's

[Scott_Burroughs]

Fired-up surfer joins that punk band?  Not anymore, now the
surfers gather in the Park.

"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"

Nice wee little 'flat' for a clubhouse here....

Random Task as cheating caddie here?

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Bridget Jones and her boyfriend Hugh Grant have spent some time in that pond.

When I look at this picture, a really popular urethane skate board wheel in the 1970's, and those collectable Milk Bottle Caps comes to mind.

[Scott_Burroughs]

Good trivial point, Tommy, about Bridget Jones.

While probably the most famous Bond movie of all-time was
partly filmed here, lesser known is that another Bond movie
was partly filmed here as well.  "Lois Lane" was the villainess
and "Crouching Tiger..." heroine/love interest was the, uh,
heroine/love  interest (well, for Bond it's just another notch in
the bedpost  ).

A C&A production.

[Scott_Burroughs]

This is Stoke Park (better known as Stoke Poges), in Stoke
Poges, England, designed by Colt & Alison.  SP is most
famously known as the setting of "Royal St. Marks" in the golf
scenes of the seminal James Bond movie "Goldfinger".  A more
recent Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, was filmed there
along with the boat scenes in Bridget Jones' Diary.


Here is the layout (big):

http://www.stokepark.com/pdf/stokepoges.pdf

from the web site:

http://www.stokepark.com


other clues include:

"most of you (red-blooded) guys should have seen before
(some as far back as 39 years ago!)." = 39 years ago was the
1964 movie Goldfinger.

"Jeff Spicoli slang for surfer magazine" = "stoked"

"Unfortunately the most famous hole here is almost invisible -
it's at 9 o'clock from the 'clubhouse' beyond what looks like a
ghastly building site" = the par 3 7th, the model for the par 3
12th at Augusta National.

"More recently used in a funny commercial where the CEO
hands over the reigns to his surfer-like nephew or grandson or
something and everyone owning stock in the company bails."
= he said "I'm so stoked!"

80's Folk/punk band whose original name (cut short to named
known by) was Gaelic for "kiss my arse". = The "Pogues,"
original name was Pogue Mahone.

"sounds a bit like a short version London suburb." = Stockley Park

"Alas, poor Auric!" = Auric Goldfinger was Bond's nemesis

"Royal St Mark's"

"Fired-up surfer joins that punk band?  Not anymore, now the
surfers gather in the Park.= "Stoked park"

"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!" = Perhaps most famous
lines from Goldfinger.

"Nice wee little 'flat' for a clubhouse here....":



 "Random Task as cheating caddie here"  = "Odd Job", and
Random Task was Dr. Evil's hitman from the first Austin
Powers movie, a blatant takeoff on Goldfinger's Odd Job.

"Bridget Jones and her boyfriend Hugh Grant have spent some
time in that pond."

"a really popular urethane skate board wheel in the 1970's," = "Stoker"

"those collectable Milk Bottle Caps" = Pogs

"Lois Lane" was the villainess and "Crouching Tiger..."
heroine/love interest was the, uh, heroine/love  interest (well,
for Bond it's just another notch in the bedpost  )." =
Tomorrow Never Dies, with Teri Hatcher and Michelle Yeoh.

A C&A production = Colt & Alison.

"There may very well be a Slazenger red lying half plugged in
the left rough of the 17th hole here...."  as well as
a "rectangular indentation in one of the first few greens"  
=more Goldfinger references