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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Mark_Rowlinson on December 11, 2006, 01:42:58 PM

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Post by: Mark_Rowlinson on December 11, 2006, 01:42:58 PM

Your fairy godmother has heard that you are interested in GCA.  She pops in for a chat one day and announces that with her magic powers she could put you in touch with any golf architect, living or dead, and that you could ask one, but only one, question of that architect.  What question would you ask of whom?

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Post by: Michael Dugger on December 11, 2006, 03:59:56 PM

I'd ask Stanley Thompson what he thought of Robert Trent Jones Sr.'s body of work.

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Post by: cary lichtenstein on December 11, 2006, 04:01:42 PM

I'd ask Ross how his designs would differ today

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Post by: David Stamm on December 11, 2006, 04:01:51 PM

I'd ask CBM, "Hey Charlie, what exactly did you and Hugh talk about?" ;D ;D ;D

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Post by: RJ_Daley on December 11, 2006, 04:10:13 PM

I'd ask Tillie, "what's in the flask". :P 8) ;D

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Post by: Adam Clayman on December 11, 2006, 07:42:20 PM

I'd ask the good doctor if he wouldn't mind writing down, in very large print, all the designs decisions regarding Augusta Nat'l, hole by hole. I'd then ask him if he was allowed a day trip to hell, to collect from Roberts.

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Post by: Ted Kramer on December 12, 2006, 08:48:12 AM

I'd ask Old Tom if he ever had the term "fair" cross his mind while laying out / designing holes. And if the term/idea "fair" was part of his thinking, what did it mean to him?

-Ted

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Post by: Chris Kane on December 12, 2006, 09:58:47 AM

I'd ask Tom Doak if he could have made Sebonack better on his own  ;D

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Post by: Gary Slatter on December 12, 2006, 02:03:48 PM

I would ask Dick Wilson "how come so many of your designs are still played on Tour, and who has done the worst renovation of one of your courses" ?   I think I heard him say "Ray Floyd".

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Post by: Paul Payne on December 12, 2006, 02:51:04 PM

I'd ask Old Tom if would have liked to have an earth mover.