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Sean_A:
Kennemer tour cont

The 14th is perhaps too similar to the previous hole. Its longer, but the uphill nature is the same. The green is good though!


Given the 2nd hole, I have a tough time getting behind the short 15th. To top it off the bunkering is wholly unsuited to the landform.


As the hole looked in 1930. Not only is the bunkering different, but the green now looks as though its front was lifted to create more a shelf green. I wonder too if the green isn't smaller today.


The green from near the 15th tee.


More to follow.

Ciao

Adam Lawrence:
The bunkering on Kennemer's fifteenth is shocking. I know there have been attempts to persuade the club to restore the hole; so far without success. Eventually I hope it happens. Along with the eighth at St George's Hill it is possibly the Colt hole most obviously in need of restoration.

Robert Mercer Deruntz:
I wonder if there is a massive bunker buried under the 15th green complex just like the 2nd.  The 2nd is raised 3+ feet because the bunker was too well constructed to blow up. These bunkers survived, literally, tons of bombs, and to remove them would be a very difficult process.

Ally Mcintosh:

--- Quote from: Adam Lawrence on Yesterday at 08:33:30 AM ---The bunkering on Kennemer's fifteenth is shocking. I know there have been attempts to persuade the club to restore the hole; so far without success. Eventually I hope it happens. Along with the eighth at St George's Hill it is possibly the Colt hole most obviously in need of restoration.

--- End quote ---


A very misguided attempt to “restore” what was there. I much preferred the single and stark bunker that these three had been combined into when I last visited 15 years ago.

Simon Barrington:

--- Quote from: Ally Mcintosh on Today at 11:56:11 AM ---
--- Quote from: Adam Lawrence on Yesterday at 08:33:30 AM ---The bunkering on Kennemer's fifteenth is shocking. I know there have been attempts to persuade the club to restore the hole; so far without success. Eventually I hope it happens. Along with the eighth at St George's Hill it is possibly the Colt hole most obviously in need of restoration.

--- End quote ---
A very misguided attempt to “restore” what was there. I much preferred the single and stark bunker that these three had been combined into when I last visited 15 years ago.

--- End quote ---
That must have looked quite Gleneagles-esque?


You can see what was being attempted but perhaps not bold enough, when one looks at the scale and edges in the B&W.


BTW - The image from Sean could also very easily be used interchangeably on the "Your thoughts on uphill approaches to angled and sloped greens" Thread that is running concurrently?


Cheers

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