Front Nine- The Architects of Mini Golf Course (pictorial)

[ian]

Golf Regress Magazine-

COMING SOON to New Jersey: The Architects of Mini Golf Course. The course will be designed by Ted Robinson and Tommy Naccarato. Tommy Naccarato, the Mini Clip Golfer of the Millenium according to "Loving Florida Golf" author Matt Ward.

According to Tom MacWood, author of The Arts and Crafts Movement in Mini Putting, "Its about time the world understood the history of the asparagus bed and what it meant to the development of Mini Golf."

According to Mini Clip legend Tom Paul, " I'll support this project as long as there is no limp wristed feminine design representing that dandy Dev Emmeret. I want manly mini-golf only.

A small web site had already reported the rumours of this courses possible future, and an entire thread has declared the course crap before they have even seen it.

Here's wishing that the course will be as good as Tom Fazio would have done it, I know that anything Ted and Tom can do would have been done by Fazio first. I wish Tommy and Ted could come up with some more origional ideas, but I guess Tom had them all.

Rong Written


(this is done with appologies to the creative architects)

[RJ_Daley]

   Help me, I'm choking with laughter!

Rong Written? you have to copywrite that one for a potential comic strip, or weekly column character.  

Can anyone get ahold of those computer programer geeks and actually get Ian's tribute course to function with putting as the computer game works?

I propose that the asphalt plant on the 13th Stranz TR tribute be replaced with a windmill, and Mike D's get one of those blowing fans at the bottom of his LZ off the tee...

With greatest due respect to these esteemed Golf Course Architects who regularly look in here at GCA.com, I have to say as a critic, C&Cs work does still stand out from the rest of the Tom Thumb course conversions...

[Steve Lapper]

This stuff is absolutely the best I've seen on GCA in quite a long time.

Thanks so much for an early Christmas gift.


Let's now do a dead architects Mini-Clip

[Bill_McBride]

And now, the winner of the "Best Post of 2003" award.  May I have the envelope please.  (Ripping sound).  Wow!  It's Ian Andrew!  I was laughing so hard my wife actually asked what I was looking at on GCA!  That is the funniest thing I have ever seen on this site.    Thanks, Ian.

Oh yes, having stood on the 12th tee at Black Mesa and seeing that green what looked like 500 yards away, uphill, and seeing it was a par 4, seeing it as a par 2 on Mini Golf is hysterical!   Whoops, looked again and see it's appropriately a par 5.  The others as par 2's are a riot.

[Forrest Richardson]

Thanks Ian...I never pictured this reachable par-5 as a par-3. But...I like it! Tomorrow morning I'm going to drive doen and see about making some changes.

Thanks again.

[ian]

Forrest,

Thats the fun and weakness of photo manipulation. You can make any distance irrelevent, and you can make any change perfect, even if it can't actually be graded!

In use this tool a lot in renovation, but if you get to creative, you can be promising things that can't be done.

RJ, Bill, Slapper,

Tommy had such a great idea, I still think his Rees was the funniest. As for the dead version for the back, I think I'm done for now, it took longer than I expected.

[Forrest Richardson]

Funny...Doug tells me you do NOT have time on your hands...are Canadian days longer? Or, is the time up there at the same exchange rate as $$....?

[ian]

Forrest,

When the kids, and Cindy all crash early on a friday, I feel like I have all the time in the world. We do get 32 Canadian hours for the price of 24 American though. I wish we still go 40!

I think Doug is finding his ASGCA responsibilities very, very overwhelming at the moment.

[Evan Fleisher]

Absolutely classic stuff, Ian...priceless!!!