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Garland Bayley

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Ottawa golf and hunt
« on: August 27, 2017, 03:16:10 PM »
Thoughts?
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

Jeff_Mingay

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Re: Ottawa golf and hunt
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2017, 12:11:00 PM »
Garland,


Ottawa Hunt has an interesting history. Willie Park Jr. designed the club's original 18-hole course, on the same site as today's course. Much of the property is very sandy. Park's work is gone (but, the club has some cool photos of what was there originally). Tom McBroom completely remodelled the course in the 1990s, I think. Now it's a Mike Hurdzan course, as of a couple years ago. I can't think of another Canadian golf club that's had three distinctive, brand new courses on the same site. Probably because there isn't another.
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Ottawa golf and hunt
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2017, 06:00:51 PM »
What little I saw of it on TV made it look quite interesting.

Was new shaping done for each of the modern versions?
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne