[John Kavanaugh]

I was lucky enough to play in The Maxwell Cup that was recently held at Colonial. I could go back just to listen to the adjacent working train yard. A symphony of an industrial past that I had forgotten.

[Joe Bausch]

Just last weekend played at Springdale in Princeton, NJ.  The Class of 1892 Carillon Bells are pretty cool.


https://gradschool.princeton.edu/about/carillon

[John Kavanaugh]

Joe,


I've driven by this my entire life and never....


https://www.centralia-carillon.org/general-information.html

[Tommy Williamsen]

John, tomorrow I go to Bolton Abbey, the Cistercian monastery in outside Carlow, Ireland. I go every year for at least two weeks. I listen to my inner longings and the "sound of sheer silence" that Elijah encountered. I listen to the monks as we sing the Office and the voice of God inside the monks. I live, eat, pray, sleep in the monks quarters, and laugh with them. It is a great place to listen.

http://www.boltonabbey.ie/

First, however, I spend three days at The European Club where Pat Ruddy gave me an honorary membership. I'll listen to the Irish Sea and the sound of the wind pushing the waves ashore.

[Steve Lang]

  favorite place to listen is in the woods at night...


favorite thoughts about listening are from an unmailed fan letter to Confucious,


the proposition that one who listens will hear,
that one who hears will understand,
that one who understands will act forthrightly,
that one who acts forthrightly will succeed, and
that one who succeeds will listen

[James Brown]

It’s a pretty good listen on the bench between 2 and 3 at Dornoch.  Best watching spot I know. 

[Nate Oxman]

Just last weekend played at Springdale in Princeton, NJ.  The Class of 1892 Carillon Bells are pretty cool.https://gradschool.princeton.edu/about/carillon

I played Springdale for the first time a couple of weeks ago and wondered why those bells chimed for what seemed like 3 straight hours. Little did I know that someone was “playing” the largest instrument in the world. Wonder if it was a concert.

At least for now, play 3-9 on Cobb’s Creek’s Karakung Course on a weekday afternoon during the school year and you’ll hear the loudest recess yard imaginable across the street behind the fourth green.Other sounds I’ve heard while on that property: dirtbikes ripping down the sixth hole, a Tarzan impersonator pant-hooting while climbing trees by the third tee, vagrants snoring by the first green...to name a few.

Joe, I’ll miss them all if that wall goes up.

[Nigel Islam]

I go to Eagle Valley to putt and chip every once in awhile on the north side of Evansville. The McCutchanville church plays old hymns via chimes on the hour.  It is so relaxing. Bet you didn’t know that John!

[Rich Goodale]

Any place and any time when someone chooses to speak to me.

[Matthew Rose]

For me it was passing trains as well, as the muni I grew up playing had an active railway line running right through it.

[mike_beene]

At the Cochiti course outside Santa Fe a few days ago it was silent. I know I seldom experience a moment without some background noise.

[Terry Lavin]

The 19th hole.

[Lou_Duran]

The 19th hole.

The bar at Olympic (in the men's grill?), three or four deep the few times I've been there.  Lot's of joyful din- very calming, re-affirming.  The men's grill at Colonial has a similar atmosphere; the train yard, well, one gets used to it I suppose.

[Tim Gavrich]

Timuquana and Sea Island Seaside and Plantation all have nice aviation soundtracks. Somewhat deeper sounds at TCC, with a Naval Air Station nearby, as opposed to SI, with the higher pitch of landing private jets.




My freshman year of college, we played a tournament at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The first two rounds, each of us was paired with another collegiate golfer and a retired or active-duty Marine. During the round, there were some abrupt, big booms off in the distance, the sounds of artillery practice.


Seeing our confused and vaguely concerned looks, the retired Marine smiled and said, "That, boys, is the sound of freedom."

[Joe Bausch]

Joe,


I've driven by this my entire life and never....


https://www.centralia-carillon.org/general-information.html

I'm not asking for carillon bells to be part of the Cobb's Creek restoration, but they work good at Princeton.


 

[Jason Topp]

Played at a course in Northern Minnesota during a Marshall Tucker Band concert in the parking lot.


Played Woking with some sort of fox hunt going on nearby.


Played in a college tournament when some sort of hunting season started at noon.  It sounded as if Canada was attacking.


I will never forget the sound of thousands of birds below the 12th tee at Old Head.


I always loved the sound of those old school sprinklers attached to hoses early in the morning.

[Brad Tufts]

The college tourney reference reminded me...I played a college event at Taconic (whose audio was usually a hilarious thwack after thwack of d3 golf balls hitting huge trees) that included a Jam’n 94.5 visit to campus, so every putt was punctuated by some “sorry ms jackson” by outkast, or “luv ya” by timbaland and magoo...was very entertaining, also connecting the Boston hip-hop station to Williams, which is 3.5 hrs west!

[Dave McCollum]

Our course is in the bottom of a canyon.  On the rim above is a gun club and shooting range.  On weekends they have competitions.  The sounds of the guns actually echo around in canyon below and it sounds like WWIII.  We're so used to it nobody notices, but visitors get that WTF look and need reassurance.  Since we have only a few permanent residents in the canyon, at night it is so quiet its actually spooky to urban visitors.  Just the wind and and the critters.       

[Tom_Doak]

One of the things I enjoy about Australian courses is all the bird noises.  Their birds are easily 20 decibels louder than American birds, for whatever reason.


I have worked on a handful of video projects, and it's always interesting to me that background noises I don't even notice drive the sound men crazy.  San Francisco Golf Club is actually amazingly loud, with the highway close by and widebody jets taking off from SFO and all the rest of the city noise . . . but it was just white noise to me until I was out there with the video crew.  I was born in the big city so those kinds of noises aren't too bothersome to me.

[JC Jones]

One of the courses in my childhood rota was a course south of Lansing called El Dorado.  The property was near the Spartan Speedway and several Friday and Saturday nights were filled with backswings interrupted by the backfiring of the cars racing around the dirt track.  The crowd noise was louder too when they’d run the figure 8 races.

[Jeff_Brauer]

I was lucky enough to play in The Maxwell Cup that was recently held at Colonial. I could go back just to listen to the adjacent working train yard. A symphony of an industrial past that I had forgotten.

JK,


I often go over to that train yard to listen (and watch).  What I like about train watching there is that occasionally, I can here the anguished cries of golfers next door, or some yelps of joy to break up the sometimes monotony of the train sounds.

[Matt Frey, PGA]

Just last weekend played at Springdale in Princeton, NJ.  The Class of 1892 Carillon Bells are pretty cool.


https://gradschool.princeton.edu/about/carillon

Here is a short video of Princeton's Carillon bells as heard from Springdale's second hole: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpx5T9rFqPP/

[Steve_Lovett]

I saw Tim Gavrich's mention of Timuquana - and the working naval air base not too far from the golf course.


Part of what comes with that - at 8:00am every morning - the Naval Air Station plays the National Anthem across the Base. It's clearly audible from all parts of the club. When it plays, everyone removes their hat, stops their golf or warm up on the range and listens silently to the Anthem. Very unique.

[Colin Macqueen]

Home is just fine! The bird song around our semi-suburban home is astonishing at dawn and dusk and on the golf course is a delight in the early morning.

And Tom, apropos your comment about Australian birds being noisy. There is an excellent book by Tim Low called “Where Song Began”.
To give you a taste of how dramatic bird song/noise in Oz is I quote from the back cover.

 
“Compared with those (birds) elsewhere they’re more likely to be intelligent, aggressive, loud, long-lived,and to live in complex societies. They’re also ecologically more powerful, having profoundly influenced Australia’s forests. And unlike the mammals, some of them have spread around the globe: more than half the world’s birds, including all of its songbirds and parrots, many pigeons, and even the dodo, can be traced back to Australia. No other continent has been as important for bird evolution.”




Cheers Colin

[Ira Fishman]

The back tee on Number 16 at Primland.  Looking over the gorge in either perfect silence or the wind rustling the trees makes it seem that you are as far from human activity as possible.  A feeling reinforced because you almost never see anyone else on the course.


Ira

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