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Steve_ Shaffer

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Top 50 Golf Corpses
« on: July 07, 2020, 10:32:38 PM »
Whistling past the golf graveyards....
From coast to coast, course carcasses litter the landscape, leaving a wandering writer with some warm memories of more than a few bizarre routings amid the cold reality of businesses gone bust
By Gary Van Sickle




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https://www.morningread.com/news-opinion/feature/2020-07-06/whistling-past-the-golf-graveyards






 
                                                                                                               
     
"Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses ... "  Adlai Stevenson
Hyman Roth to Michael Corleone: "We're bigger than US Steel."
Ben Hogan “The most important shot in golf is the next one”

Tim Leahy

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Re: Top 50 Golf Corpses
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2020, 04:55:49 AM »
I will miss Malibu CC. One of the first "destination" golf courses because it was in the middle of nowhere and you had to seek it out. Started playing there while at Pepperdine when it was a nine hole and "private" as a tax dodge for the Perfect Liberty "church". Fun to play and 9th which became 18th was unique all downhill long par four with chapparell on both sides. Water costs closed the course. May be reclaimed.
Lake Elizabeth was another course closed by water costs in the middle of nowhere in the Angeles National Forest. Fun course that you could play on a weekend without a tee time an hour away from the San Fernando Valley. Still may be reclaimed.
Eldorado Hills Golf Course was an RT Jones Sr. executive course 18 holes par 61 hilly track and was the best pitch & putt course I have ever seen next to Incline Village. Was supposed to be turned into athletic fields decades ago but remains vacant .
Stephenson Ranch hosted a King's Putter and had some interesting GCA but was too far away from everything to make it. Turned into farm land.
 :'(
« Last Edit: July 08, 2020, 05:00:27 AM by Tim Leahy »
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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: Top 50 Golf Corpses
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2020, 08:08:30 PM »
Beechtree GC ( Doak, 1998) in Aberdeen, MD


Buried 2008 for development


Will certainly be in the Top 5  Corpses.
"Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses ... "  Adlai Stevenson
Hyman Roth to Michael Corleone: "We're bigger than US Steel."
Ben Hogan “The most important shot in golf is the next one”

John Kavanaugh

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Re: Top 50 Golf Corpses
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2020, 09:10:31 AM »
I enjoyed this article. First time since 2016 a bad word was printed about a Doak course.


As a side note it looks like GVS updated his picture. Ouch.

Jeff_Brauer

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Re: Top 50 Golf Corpses
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2020, 10:54:54 AM »
I enjoyed this article. First time since 2016 a bad word was printed about a Doak course.


As a side note it looks like GVS updated his picture. Ouch.


Most disappointing photo byline update since Dear Abby......


Great phrase, BTW.  Will have to borrow that one.
Jeff Brauer, ASGCA Director of Outreach

Tom_Doak

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Re: Top 50 Golf Corpses
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2020, 12:48:21 PM »
Not sure that High Pointe was too difficult.  Anthony Kim shot 61 there while running bags at the course, while working with his instructor and waiting between the end of his college season and the Walker Cup before he could turn pro.

Garland Bayley

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Re: Top 50 Golf Corpses
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2020, 09:15:08 PM »
Not sure that High Pointe was too difficult.  Anthony Kim shot 61 there while running bags at the course, while working with his instructor and waiting between the end of his college season and the Walker Cup before he could turn pro.

Must be like that pushover Royal Portrush where some teenager shot 61.
"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

Mike Schott

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Re: Top 50 Golf Corpses
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2020, 09:50:35 PM »
Not sure that High Pointe was too difficult.  Anthony Kim shot 61 there while running bags at the course, while working with his instructor and waiting between the end of his college season and the Walker Cup before he could turn pro.


Agree, never thought of it that way. Almost everything was right in front of you. Plenty of downhill tee shots and nothing goofy except the much discussed 18th hole.

Pete_Pittock

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Re: Top 50 Golf Corpses
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2020, 01:03:34 AM »
Not sure that High Pointe was too difficult.  Anthony Kim shot 61 there while running bags at the course, while working with his instructor and waiting between the end of his college season and the Walker Cup before he could turn pro.
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14 was my favorite. Have to commit to your approach shot. And no bunkers as I remember.