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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Pete_Pittock on October 06, 2011, 09:52:03 PM

Title: Trees on Mounds
Post by: Pete_Pittock on October 06, 2011, 09:52:03 PM

Watching some golf today I noticed trees planted on mounds. Why? They both serve similar purposes. Either one would be sufficient. Why use both?

Title: Re: Trees on Mounds
Post by: Ally Mcintosh on October 07, 2011, 04:29:25 AM

...I recall a rather funny rant by architect Jeremy Pern making this exact point... I agree...

Title: Re: Trees on Mounds
Post by: Kevin Pallier on October 07, 2011, 04:57:19 AM

The only thing I tend to find worse is probably deep grass / shrubs in bunkers ?

Title: Re: Trees on Mounds
Post by: Brett_Morrissy on October 07, 2011, 06:26:00 AM

Hi KP,

You got to Merion last year? Internal vegetation in the bunkers were not impressive?

Enough to knock it back a few ?

Pete, I guess the idea was to achieve height faster on a new course, it seems a strange process, and I would have thought difficult to grow in a small mound. It does not seem a natural thing for a tree to grow on a small mound.

Title: Re: Trees on Mounds
Post by: John Foley on October 07, 2011, 09:28:16 AM

There a few at Kittansett - but pretty sure less than there was.

Isn't this just a reflection of poor tree maintenance?

Title: Re: Trees on Mounds
Post by: Mike Hendren on October 07, 2011, 09:35:55 AM

The par five 16th at Desert Forest has a tree on a mound in the middle of the fairway that must be negotiated on the second shot depending on the place of the tee shot.  It's a great tree on a great hole.

Bogey