Scott,
Raleigh C. C.-- What do you think? Hopefully Richard Mandell has some serious tree management on his agenda. Kris Spence certainly did, but he did not get the job.
Dunlop,
This was my third time around RCC, I always enjoy it and the tough (but a wee bit too fast) greens. Great greens like these need not be so fast.
I've played worse courses when it comes to the mature trees between holes, but there are way too many young trees, 5-10 years old (can see a few in pic #2), in otherwise open spaces that serve no useful purpose.
Brian thought that one of two guys in a cart riding around the course and "waving arms" may have been Richard, but I yelled over his name and no one turned around. Maybe it was him, maybe not. He posts here every now and then, it would be nice to hear his plans.
A weird plan is to put a way back tee box on #10 behind the southern half of the practice green, by the clubhouse, cutting the practice green in half.
JakaB,
Pete mentioned to me (without prompting) that he walks when he plays (frequently) at Finley. Students (he's getting his PhD in May) get a great deal there.
"How come everybody on GCA looks so, so, so, YOUNG?"
Mike,
That looks like gray hair on the side of the head of the guy on the right, whatever that means.
"Mr. Doyle is without a doubt "East Coast Huckaby".
"And they both were wearing Sand Hills hats."
And that bag he's carrying is a Shinnecock bag.
