The Bias Toward "Big" Courses

[ed_getka]

You can definitely say one thing for Augusta, the prices are right. $125 for a pass.

[Carlyle Rood]

MASTERS
Coke $0.75
Beer $1.75
Imported Beer $2.25 (Heineken)
Ham Sandwich $1.50
Turkey Sandwich $1.50
Club Sandwich $1.75
BBQ Sandwich $2.00
Chips $0.50

[Tiger_Bernhardt]

Carlyle I am glad to see the ticket is tiger Red on sunday.

[Matthew Schulte]

Perhaps an interesting question would be what architects have been successful at making a small property feel big, and what techniques did they use to acheive this?  How do some architects make a course play longer than the yardage?  Is it almost automatic that the architect wisely avoids the par 72 temptation, to make it play bigger than the yardage?  What do these successful small property designs have in common?  

Pasatiempo...6400 yards.  Plays considerably longer.
Pacific Dunes...6500 yards.  Obviously plays longer due to wind.
Cruden Bay...6400 yards.

Caledonia & Tobacco Road were also big feeling designs on small plots of land.

One common thread of the above courses would be big features.  Be it dunes, bunkering or contouring.

[ian]

Since we did Osprey Valley (heathlands), the acreage is actually 160. Nowadays 150 acres feels tight when many projects are 200 to 250 acres. The property size just grows and grows with the safety width increases brought upon by technology.

[Tiger_Bernhardt]

Bill/Redanman I would still like to think the men in Green jackets would like to see Red stand for the Georgia clay, University of Georgia or maybe Tiger red long before anything to do with the dreaded Canucks. I do love Jasper Park and most anything Stanley T designed, but the Southpark boys had it right on the Canucks.

[henrye]

Thanks Ian.  160 not 100.  Probably why it doesn't feel tight.