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Perchance a Dream?
Kyle Harris:
This golf course struggled for decades and finally closed a few years ago. The land is laying fallow and for sale. The site features elevation changes of 80-100' and only has one dominante water feature in play on an early hole in the routing.
If you know, please don't share the name of the course, location, or architect to see if we can generate some actual discussion.
My opinion is that this would be a golf course ranked highly within the state and Top 5 in it's county within that state.
Do you think this course is worth rebuilding and restoring based solely on these opening day photographs?
Ronald Montesano:
I agree. It's not much to start the discussion, but there's a lot that's good to great about those photos. I love the diversity of the challenges...the width to the narrow, the left to the right for bends. I look forward to what others have to write.
Kyle Harris:
--- Quote from: Ronald Montesano on February 20, 2025, 10:02:35 AM ---I agree. It's not much to start the discussion, but there's a lot that's good to great about those photos. I love the diversity of the challenges...the width to the narrow, the left to the right for bends. I look forward to what others have to write.
--- End quote ---
I should add that one of the greens had the name "Elephant Ears" per the archive.
Kyle Harris:
The first photo is at the end of a 250 yard hole that played downhill. The tee view is shown on the 4th and 5th from last photos.
I've seen this type of hole/feature (the two large mounds at the back corners of the green) on two other courses by these architects.
Kyle Harris:
The economy shown in this routing is wonderful. The collection point of the routing is not of any significant prominence but serves as a launching off point to the more extreme terrain. 3 greens in the center of the property on an otherwise indistinguishable area. However, the need for tees to attack/traverse the more interesting parts of the ground farther away make this an obvious place. The greens, being fully contrived anyway, show a good amount of contouring.
The following photos show how this collection point in the routing interacts from play. The red and blue arrows point to the same respective features:
6th hole, tee sharing a high point with the 12th green:
7th green, shortest Par 3 on the course
2 views of the 11th with "Elephant Ears" at the green
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