Crossroads GC- King Collins

[ward peyronnin]

I had a blast yesterdayRob Collins and a group of friends and I whirled around their newly opened 9 holer at Palmetto Bluff: The Crossroads.
It was akin to being released on a golf playground during recess. Options option options.
Imagine a roughly square property bisected by a looming dominant feature of a primary sand ridge broken by openings and off shoots that inevitably incorporated dramatic blowout style bunkers but which did not inhibit every part of the property seemingly being connected. One could drop a ball and play to any flag in sight and then rinse and repeat.
Corridors of play: BAH. Because there were only two cuts- green and playing field framed by aforementioned features and native.No cart paths allowed. Putt out and just choose a proximate spot from which to tee although modest black hammers did designate suggested teeing areas for the hammer clockwise routing and presses the counterclockwise  for next day.Artiistic flourishes;  open canvases lured one toward immense o even double swooping greens( but not egregiously so) pinned with two hole locations for a second nine or calling out off the tee.
A truer match play course than any I have heard of or seen. I admit age has slowed my progression around the hot new openings by our pantheon of very talented contemporary designers but this concept seems to me truly ground breaking and seriously led me to one of the most fun days I have ever had playing golf and this from a Cruden Bay former member. It is a lanscape I just will be recalling well into the near future and it breaks the mode totally rejecting (bowling lane) standard golf routing.
A last request that the class warfare haters and whiners take their private vs public access comments to another thread so I entertain questions or comparisons to other exciting new work.Your humble servantDon Wardo

[Mike Hendren]

A truer match play course than any I have heard of or seen.

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Et Tu Wardo? 

[ward peyronnin]

A truer match play course than any I have heard of or seen.

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Et Tu Wardo?

I am without par as is the card for this course and therefore matchless

[David_Tepper]

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[Mike Hendren]

Seriously, looks like great fun.  At work and school I ‘ve drawn thousands of holes and 9-hole routings as I suspect many of you have.  Ironically one of my favorite exercises was to randomly draw scattered dunes, then try to route a reversible 9 holes over and around them.  Didn’t use many bunkers though.  All fairway.


Also, before they planted so many stupid trees back home we used to play “horse” cross-country back in the 70’s. 

[Sean_A]

I had a blast yesterdayRob Collins and a group of friends and I whirled around their newly opened 9 holer at Palmetto Bluff: The Crossroads.
It was akin to being released on a golf playground during recess. Options option options.
Imagine a roughly square property bisected by a looming dominant feature of a primary sand ridge broken by openings and off shoots that inevitably incorporated dramatic blowout style bunkers but which did not inhibit every part of the property seemingly being connected. One could drop a ball and play to any flag in sight and then rinse and repeat.
Corridors of play: BAH. Because there were only two cuts- green and playing field framed by aforementioned features and native.No cart paths allowed. Putt out and just choose a proximate spot from which to tee although modest black hammers did designate suggested teeing areas for the hammer clockwise routing and presses the counterclockwise  for next day.Artiistic flourishes;  open canvases lured one toward immense o even double swooping greens( but not egregiously so) pinned with two hole locations for a second nine or calling out off the tee.
A truer match play course than any I have heard of or seen. I admit age has slowed my progression around the hot new openings by our pantheon of very talented contemporary designers but this concept seems to me truly ground breaking and seriously led me to one of the most fun days I have ever had playing golf and this from a Cruden Bay former member. It is a lanscape I just will be recalling well into the near future and it breaks the mode totally rejecting (bowling lane) standard golf routing.
A last request that the class warfare haters and whiners take their private vs public access comments to another thread so I entertain questions or comparisons to other exciting new work.Your humble servantDon Wardo

Wardo isn’t wrong.

Ciao