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Rick Shefchik

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Re:Sleepers--A question of liability or coolness?
« Reply #25 on: July 22, 2004, 12:05:32 PM »


Here's an example from a quirky Minnesota course called Mississippi Dunes -- I've referenced it a time or two here because of some of its unusal features.

On this hole, the par-5 14th, railroad ties were used on the faces of all the fairway bunkers -- and the bunkers are effectively placed to alter your strategy. I can tell you from personal experience that when you've got to play a shot out of one of these bunkers from up against the railroad ties, you can have some negative thoughts at the top of your backswing.

Of all the features at MD that make it a unique course, the railroad tie bunkers are way down the list of things I'd change.
"Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation." - Grantland Rice

Mark_Fine

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Re:Sleepers--A question of liability or coolness?
« Reply #26 on: July 22, 2004, 01:11:28 PM »
Rick,
Your picture shows a good example of what Hunter was talking about.
Mark

A_Clay_Man

Re:Sleepers--A question of liability or coolness?
« Reply #27 on: July 22, 2004, 01:13:24 PM »
Bob- I'm having a hard time remembering #12. I remember #11 with that ridiculous uphill climb to the teeing ground. Was 12 a downhill par 4 too? Was it the one with the condos right or the one with houses left?  ::)

Here's a nudder.