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THuckaby2:
WHEW!  The expert arrives.  Oh yeah, I remember the trees by the green now... and yes, they are also gone gone gone.  

Thanks, Adam!

TH

Rick Shefchik:
Having played #16 for the first time a little more than a month ago, I can tell you I didn't miss the tree at the corner of the dogleg or the trees guarding the green. The hole gave me all I wanted as it was, even though I hit my best drive of the day there. It still left me a 3-iron approach to what I felt was a difficult-enough target. My drive carried through the fairway to the edge of the left rough, and I felt damn glad to be there. Now, you want to put a tree on the left side of the green to make my 3-iron approach that much harder? You guys are sadists.

THuckaby2:
Rick:

I'm no sadist, it's just that some golf courses - and golf holes - are MEANT to be brutal.  This was the most brutal hole on a very brutal golf course.  Now it's not... which to me is sad.  As I say, the hole used to be very unique - now it's just another tough hole in a course full of them.

Make any sense?

TH

Rick Shefchik:
Tom --

Sure it makes sense. I like a brutal hole now and then, too. I'm sorry I missed the original -- just not that sorry.

Rick

THuckaby2:
Rick - gotcha.  Oh yes, if making a good score is the concern, then yes you are very lucky you missed the original!

Black Dog, RIP.  They oughtta call it Black Poodle now, relatively.   ;)

TH

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