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Carl Nichols

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Design Gut Check?
« on: November 18, 2024, 04:00:41 PM »
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« Last Edit: November 18, 2024, 08:33:51 PM by Carl Nichols »

Tom_Doak

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Re: Design Gut Check?
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 06:36:55 PM »
No one has any guts around here anymore.

Michael Chadwick

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Re: Design Gut Check?
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 07:01:40 PM »
No one has any guts around here anymore.


Pertaining to what? Design? Or talking about design? I never saw the OP.
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Simon Barrington

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Re: Design Gut Check?
« Reply #3 on: Today at 02:23:36 AM »
No one has any guts around here anymore.
You just won GC Atlas!

Ben Stephens

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Re: Design Gut Check?
« Reply #4 on: Today at 02:29:31 AM »
No one has any guts around here anymore.


Well I had the guts to say that you haven't changed your design style much over the years a while ago which might have ruffled a few feathers on GCA however it came out wrong as I was trying to do the opposite to encourage something different the the shaping and look of the golf course.


I will probably put out a new thread could be what would be the Antithesis of the Current Great GCA Triumvirate (C+C, Doak and Hanse) golf course design approach wise


Variety is the spice of life   




Tom_Doak

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Re: Design Gut Check?
« Reply #5 on: Today at 10:52:33 PM »
No one has any guts around here anymore.


Well I had the guts to say that you haven't changed your design style much over the years a while ago which might have ruffled a few feathers on GCA however it came out wrong as I was trying to do the opposite to encourage something different the the shaping and look of the golf course.

I will probably put out a new thread could be what would be the Antithesis of the Current Great GCA Triumvirate (C+C, Doak and Hanse) golf course design approach wise

Variety is the spice of life


I can't think of anything more gutless than an architect standing on the sidelines and criticizing me for not being more varied.  If you think it's easy to build something different and better, you should go do it, or be more respectful.


I do have a coherent approach to design, which has not precluded me from taking on different sorts of projects and producing some pretty good variety over my career.  Do you think my work is less varied than that of Harry Colt or A. W. Tillinghast or Alister MacKenzie?  All of them were pretty good but they didn't resort to building anything like Jim Engh just to prove they could.