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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Mark Bourgeois on March 18, 2009, 07:49:18 PM

Title: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Mark Bourgeois on March 18, 2009, 07:49:18 PM

Or is it just the world's Anti-Bunker Capital?

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(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/MSBIII/Antibunker%20City/1.jpg)

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(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/MSBIII/Antibunker%20City/2.jpg)

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(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/MSBIII/Antibunker%20City/3.jpg)

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(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/MSBIII/Antibunker%20City/4.jpg)

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(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/MSBIII/Antibunker%20City/5.jpg)

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(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/MSBIII/Antibunker%20City/6.jpg)

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(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/MSBIII/Antibunker%20City/7.jpg)

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(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k204/MSBIII/Antibunker%20City/8.jpg)

Mark

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Tom_Doak on March 18, 2009, 07:53:56 PM

I don't know where it is at first glance ... but it doesn't look like any of the cities which are always nominated for having the best group of courses.

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Mark Bourgeois on March 18, 2009, 07:57:31 PM

I just meant "capital" in the sense of quantity not quality.  My first thought was that poverty = bunker deprivation, but these are private clubs with plenty of cheap labor, so I don't think that explains it.

Wonder if every megacity in the Third World would qualify?

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Guy Nicholson on March 18, 2009, 08:48:07 PM

Hint: City was dramatically affected by events of Sept. 11.

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Scott Warren on March 18, 2009, 08:49:05 PM

S------- in C----?

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Mark Bourgeois on March 18, 2009, 09:06:31 PM

G--- g----, S---- W-----.  B-- t-- p------ s---- l------- a-- l--------!

So, why so few bunkers?  Is it something to do with the soil?

Guy, that is an excellent hint, as befits a man whose avatar is a grainy Sasquatch!

Mark

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Scott Warren on March 18, 2009, 09:12:28 PM

I'm good up to "but the", then I'm lost!

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Mark Bourgeois on March 18, 2009, 09:15:30 PM

Better fill it in before I forget, myself -- or is that "before I forget myself":

"But the picture shows latitude and longitude!"  Too lazy to wipe the coordinates from the screen captures...

Mark

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Scott Warren on March 18, 2009, 09:17:48 PM

Indeed, I am a dirty, rotten cheaterer.

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Ronald Montesano on March 18, 2009, 10:01:55 PM

muchos gatos que desean mear y cagar en la arena causa una paucidad de bunkers.

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Andrew Summerell on March 19, 2009, 03:49:30 AM

Mark,

There seems to be quite a few bunkers on all those courses. Are you saying that they are basic is form, or not as many as you expected?

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Guy Nicholson on March 19, 2009, 11:14:25 AM

Quote from: Mark Bourgeois on March 18, 2009, 09:06:31 PM

Guy, that is an excellent hint, as befits a man whose avatar is a grainy Sasquatch!

I know, I photograph horribly.

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Mark Bourgeois on March 19, 2009, 07:26:20 PM

Andrew,

These courses, as a whole, appear to my eye as having fewer bunkers than one would find on a similar number of courses selected from another (randomly chosen) city.

Mark

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Carl Nichols on March 19, 2009, 09:35:55 PM

Quote from: Guy Nicholson on March 18, 2009, 08:48:07 PM

Hint: City was dramatically affected by events of Sept. 11.

agreed -- great hint

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: astavrides on March 22, 2009, 08:30:21 AM

Where is it?  I could guess, but I don't feel like it.

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Mark Bourgeois on March 22, 2009, 07:03:02 PM

astavrides, you win the Jean-Paul Parodi Too Lazy/Busy Award.  And the prize is satisfaction: Santiago, Chile.

One of the most beautiful settings of any city in the world.  That is, on the rare day it's not smogged in.

Mark

Title: Re: Minimalist Capital of the World
Post by: Rich Goodale on March 23, 2009, 06:37:10 AM

Marco

I'm not too lazy/busy to take the time to solve the 9/11 clue.  Good one!

Jean-Paul