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Mark_Rowlinson

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Sacreligious suggestion
« on: November 22, 2004, 03:12:11 PM »
Having just posted a few pics of Royal County Down I have a dreadful suggestion for you to discuss.  Generally speaking there is only enough prime duneland to run both nines parallel in the valleys.  But at the far end of the course there's a little more width (enough to accommodate a few holes from the 2nd course).  What if someone were to lay out a few holes running across the dunes?......

Michael Wharton-Palmer

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Re:Sacreligious suggestion
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2004, 04:59:29 PM »
I have only played RCD one time, and while I was there, I could not help but wonder the same thing.
However I was scared to even think of such an idea, being as I was on such special ground, and who am I?  a mere mortal.
I think in the right hands the course could be enhanced using that small portion of land...hard as it may be to swallow..it could make things even better.
Above all I am just glad that I am not the only one who borders on being sacreligious!!

Mark_Rowlinson

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Re:Sacreligious suggestion
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2004, 06:13:11 PM »
As I said, it's a sacreligious suggestion, but I'm not simply talking about replacing 16, and I gather somebody is already doing that.  If you look at the course map there is the length of a substantial par 5 from the 3rd green area to the 15th tee.  It crosses the dunes and doesn't run along them.  You'd probably have to incorporate the 13th green as the focal point of your par 5, but it runs (and slopes) in the right direction.  The clever thing is then to make the maximum use of the current second course area between #4 and #13 and also between #12 and #17.  You then have the opportunity to make more of the ground occupied by #11 and #12 and to do something better than the current #17.  Clearly, what you do with #16 is a moot point but you have already stirred up a nest of vipers.  Go on, you architectuiral wizards, give us the finest course bar none.  You have the ground with which to work......

Mark_Rowlinson

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Re:Sacreligious suggestion
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2004, 06:44:56 PM »
Sean,

You're right.  None of us does.  And who would want to start decimating what is already there?  But Tom Morris and his successors have found a route for both courses in which all the holes basically are north-south or south-north.  If you were given that as virgin land would your routing be for 2Xout-and-back parallel holes on each nine?  

I could not ever consider knocking the course.  But just suppose they advertised for submissions for suitable architects to revamp the course to last until the 22nd century, and you were an architect.  What would your outline plan be?    

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