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Mike Benham

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Find the natural features ...
« on: March 08, 2004, 12:13:25 AM »
Oft maligned course that has been briefly discussed before.  Nothing like a nice artistic aerial to view the natural features the architect had to work with ...

The holes around the lake look very Dye-ish or Jones-ish ...



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SPDB

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Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2004, 12:18:10 AM »
Mike -
Based on the response this thread is likely to elicit, I would use a photoshop tool to draw in 4 Horsemen along that dune in the distance, because I'm pretty sure we're staring down the apocalypse.

Norbert P

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Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2004, 01:14:17 AM »
Isn't that Land Mines Golf Club?  Look at those 100% authenticly genuine simulated containment mounds. Glorious.

 An inspirational catalyst for purging bile.

Mike,  Interesting that you got that from a Real Estate website.  Should we start some rumors?
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Kevin_Reilly

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Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2004, 01:53:19 AM »
Mike,  Interesting that you got that from a Real Estate website.  Should we start some rumors?

That's Mike's company.   :D
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Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2004, 04:24:52 AM »
Mike -
Based on the response this thread is likely to elicit, I would use a photoshop tool to draw in 4 Horsemen along that dune in the distance, because I'm pretty sure we're staring down the apocalypse.

Could I please be the grim reaper??? Please!!!!!

This was more then likely taken either during the later or early winter months. How do I know this?  Well, if you look at the lake in the dunes, thats usually not there, and in certain years, that is part of the basin that floods because the water table rises during those winter months. Although judging from the direction of the shadows from the tree in realtion to the sun, it looks like it may even be late Spring.

Also, the only people I see on the course is someone on the front of #13 green.

Man! Is it me or is that strategy so bold that its hitting me in the face? ;D


Mike_Cirba

Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2004, 11:14:41 AM »
Ummm...

Is that an Indian Burial ground?

Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2004, 11:22:26 AM »
No Mike, Its proof positive that Ree Jones courses can and do have acne.
 
I will say this about that though........

It is the perfect place to learn how to learn how to build a symmetrical mound. Look at how many tries they had to get it just right!

When they got done for the day, they just didn't erase it all and start over, they simplypushed them aside toughout the property and created more and more and more!

Chris Pike

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Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2004, 11:26:24 AM »
If they wanted that much containment, they should have just lined the fairways with 100-foot high nets.  I could just hear all of the 30-handicaps coming off that course and saying, "I just shot the round of my life".   ;D
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Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2004, 11:27:54 AM »
Hey Rees,

Anna Nicole Smith just called, and she wants her mounds back!
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ForkaB

Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2004, 11:28:40 AM »
Show some patience, guys!

Give that course a few hundred years and it just might evolve into something that will crack the GW top 10 Classic list.

Mike Erdmann

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Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2004, 11:29:23 AM »
Ouch, that has to be about the most incriminating photo I've seen yet of the course!  All those mounds, and not a single one that carries through into a fairway or a green.

Michael Dugger

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Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2004, 11:40:54 AM »
It's hard to establish grass on those oblique dunes, guys.
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RJ_Daley

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Re:Find the natural features ...
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2004, 11:43:18 AM »
Rees sort of gives a whole new context to the term "turning points".  I'm reminded of the old theme song for the clam bake sung by der-Bingo.  It went something like this...

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Straight down the middle
It went straight down the middle
Then it started to hook just a wee wee bit
That's when my caddie lost sight of it
That little white pellet has never been found to this day
But it went straight down the middle like they say

Whack down the fairway
It went smack down the fairway
Then it started to slice just a smidge off line
It headed for two but it bounced off nine
My caddie says long as you're still in the state you're
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