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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Michael Dugger on October 16, 2007, 07:01:15 PM

Title: Name the architect...
Post by: Michael Dugger on October 16, 2007, 07:01:15 PM
WITHOUT CHEATING by right clicking on the image and viewing 'properties' who can tell me the designer of these courses....

(http://www.nicklaus.com/design/cordilleraranch/images/6.jpg)

(http://www.nicklaus.com/design/concession/images/16.jpg)

(http://www.nicklaus.com/design/mayanresortspuertopenasco/images/6.jpg)

(http://www.nicklaus.com/design/mayanresortspuertopenasco/images/1.jpg)

Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Paul Carey on October 16, 2007, 07:03:06 PM
RTJ Jr.
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: jeffwarne on October 16, 2007, 07:07:32 PM
the second one looks like May River, so Jack Nicklaus
another looks like a Nicklaus course in Cabo
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Greg Tallman on October 16, 2007, 07:10:26 PM
None from Cabo... right country though.
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: cary lichtenstein on October 16, 2007, 07:56:10 PM
I like the first hole
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Don_Mahaffey on October 16, 2007, 08:41:09 PM
The last 2 pics look to be from somewhere along the coast of the Mar de Cortés. Looks to me like the northern part...but could be a lot of places actually. I like the look...sort of...but a little less work would have yielded more, IMO.  
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Roger Tufts on October 16, 2007, 09:03:18 PM
I like the first hole

I agree. I've never liked the use of waterfalls on golf courses (Trump....) but that actually looks... at least ALMOST natural if not completely.

The last two pictures are very nice too. Looks pretty natural as well... i like it.
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Post by: Kirk Gill on October 16, 2007, 11:56:09 PM
The first one looks like a set from "Survivor." I like the rest of them, particularly that third one. That one makes me think Nicklaus...........just the way the green is presented.
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Tim Bert on October 17, 2007, 12:02:29 AM
The first one is WAY too busy for my eye.  It looks like something from one of the "fantasy" courses on a golf video game.  That being said, I find it strangely appealing.
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Patrick Kiser on October 17, 2007, 12:08:35 AM
Not Forrest.  Right?
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Jordan Wall on October 17, 2007, 12:23:44 AM
Michael,

I just cheated.

And my guess was wrong.
Pleasantly surprised though, because its good to see that type of look in his courses.
Those courses look darn good.

The second picture does remind me though, of that one golf course by C&C that is in India...I think...a while ago there were some pictures of the course.
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: MHiserman on October 17, 2007, 02:53:41 AM
From the first photo, Texas...Hill Country, Jack.
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Tom_Doak on October 17, 2007, 07:13:11 AM
The first two are Nicklaus ... the Hills of Lakeway (+/- 20 years old) and May River.  I'll guess the last two are Jack's as well, but I don't like them nearly as much ... they look way too "busy".
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: TEPaul on October 17, 2007, 08:22:09 AM
Personally I've always thought claiming who the architect of a hole or course is by just looking at the architecture is a most inexact science, to say the least. Perhaps about as scientific as a dart throw. ;)
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Tom_Doak on October 17, 2007, 10:34:38 AM
Tom P:

That's true, but there are some guys who are very very good at darts.
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Sean Leary on October 17, 2007, 10:49:52 AM
Michael,

I just cheated.



Shocking, Mr. Mulligan.
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Trey Kemp on October 17, 2007, 11:10:21 AM
I know the first one is hole #16 from Cordillera Ranch in Boerne, TX by Nicklaus.  The course opened earlier this year.
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Randy Thompson on October 17, 2007, 11:55:44 AM
The first is a good example of how on Par 3's your basically left with an art challenge and they definetly hit a homerun here, almost too much eye candy, if there is such a thing. The second is the best for me, nothing forced, nothing artificial, no gimmicks, I am definetly impressed with that hole. In conclusion, even a broken clock is right twice a day!
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Michael Dugger on October 17, 2007, 12:45:33 PM
The first two are Nicklaus ... the Hills of Lakeway (+/- 20 years old) and May River.  I'll guess the last two are Jack's as well, but I don't like them nearly as much ... they look way too "busy".

You get 1/2 credit, Tom, and I am quite amazed, to be honest, you didn't nail it considering your 'photographic memory' as puned by some golf writer. ;)

Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Matthew Hunt on October 17, 2007, 04:59:02 PM
The second looks like the conncession by Nicklas/Jacklin

I'm liking hole number 4!
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: Tom_Doak on October 17, 2007, 08:49:53 PM
Michael D:

My photographic memory cannot be expected to name a course I haven't seen before, if one of the photos is of The Concession.
Title: Re:Name the architect...
Post by: John_Cullum on October 17, 2007, 10:13:43 PM
I say the last is a Post Collaboration Nicklaus
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Post by: Tim Gavrich on October 17, 2007, 10:25:44 PM
Pics 3 and 4 have to be someone in the Jones kibbutz...those bunkers have 1st cousins at Grande Dunes (Resort) in Myrtle Beach, a very mediocre effort by Roger Rulewich (IMHO).