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John Kirk

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Re: The American Templates
« Reply #25 on: September 08, 2018, 08:23:41 PM »
Three nice designs from California that would make nice template holes:
In theory, the 10th at Riviera could be replicated, as long as you could tee off a bit downhill.
The 13th at Stanford University (430 yards with five staggered bunkers) is a great simple design for flat ground.

Another Riviera template is the gull wing green on the par 3 14th hole.


Garland Bayley

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Re: The American Templates
« Reply #26 on: September 08, 2018, 11:27:03 PM »
The tree gate par 5 such as Black Forest 10, and endorsed in Anatomy of a Golf Course.
"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

Tom Bacsanyi

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Re: The American Templates
« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2018, 09:29:22 PM »
Three nice designs from California that would make nice template holes:
In theory, the 10th at Riviera could be replicated, as long as you could tee off a bit downhill.
The 13th at Stanford University (430 yards with five staggered bunkers) is a great simple design for flat ground.

Another Riviera template is the gull wing green on the par 3 14th hole.


Agreed on the Riviera template, although a green that size might get beat up on course that does a lot of rounds.


I love the 8th at Augusta as a template hole, the 3rd at CommonGround has that flavor.  Love the green set as a valley between two berms and the playing angles that result.


I think the 16th at Cypress could be easily duplicated in terms of strategy but certainly not in setting.  It's essentially an ultra short Cape hole listed as a Par 3 but really it's a 3.5.  While you probably wouldn't have the Pacific at your disposal you could use a pond, a lake, a marsh, or even just a "sea" of tall grass as the carry hazard.


One of the pluses of 17 TPC is that it can be put in anywhere where there's a pond, and it won't take up much room relative to the rest of the course.  Maybe it's a good hole for tight properties?
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

--Harry Vardon

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