Aerial of the Day #289 - 22 Jan 2003

[Scott_Burroughs]

9-Holer Week continues....

SI called yesterday's course the best 9-holer in the U.S.  
Others have given today's course that moniker.

That opening hole looks l o n g (I can relate).

[redanman]

This is the one that Ben Crenshaw likes the 9th hole so well.  Bears a certain resemblance to the 4th at Yale, so Ben must like elbow holes right over water.   I like the first.  The character of the ground on that hole is obviously invisible from this altitude.


The name of the course does not imply segregationist tendencies.

There is a bell to ring on the fifth after you hit your approach shot (blind landing area).

Gotta go, no more clues from me!

[Scott_Burroughs]

The shadowing on #9 looks like a steep hill that could
be 'turbo-boosted' for a short approach.

This one is difficult to give clues for.

Mr. AOTD archie.

Archie's "appleseed" territory.

"How do you know when a blonde has tried to delete
something on a computer?"  Fill in punchline for a clue.

[Scott_Burroughs]

This course is mentioned in another, current thread.

Shares the state with the referenced school's town from
Monday's AOTD thread.

To bleach or not to bleach, that is ....

[Matt Dupre]

I'm thinking Massachusetts, but even though I grew up there I never really heard of any high quality 9-holers.

Great clues, but I haven't one....

[Matt Dupre]

Scott,

I just read the other thread, and still had never heard of the course.  When you reveal the answer, please provide the town so I can ask my resident brother-in-law about it!

Matt

[Scott_Burroughs]

UltraBrite toothpaste aims to place people's teeth in this town.

SPDB must be busy, as he normally chimes in on courses in this region.

MDupre,

Club name=town name.

[Brad Tufts]

I played my Mass. Am. Qualifier here last summer.  The course was very fun I thought, especially holes 2, 6, 8, 9.  We played on a misty, humid day, and the scores were very low.  You had to shoot 72 to get into a playoff for the alternate spots, and i missed by 5.  They had us play the whites the first go-round, and the blues the second.

[Bye]

Current day olympic architects used to call this town home.

[Bye]

olympic=open

[Scott_Burroughs]

This is Whitinsville, in Whitinsville, MA, designed by Donald
Ross.  Some have called Whitinsville one of the two best 9-
holers in the U.S. (Dunes was not one of them).


other clues include:

"name of the course does not imply segregationist
tendencies" = "Whitin"sville

"Mr. AOTD archie" = Ross

"Archie's 'appleseed' area" refers to where Ross 'spread his
seed', in New England, mostly in MA and RI.

"How do you know when a blonde has tried to delete
something on a computer?"  There's "White"-Out on the screen.

Whitinsville is mentioned in the 9-Holer thread.

"Shares the state with the referenced school's town from
Monday's AOTD thread" = Cambridge, MA, home of Harvard

"To bleach or not to bleach" = To "whiten"

"UltraBrite toothpaste aims to" "whiten" your teeth.

someone please correct me if "Whitinsville" is pronounced
like "wit", not "white", as I presumed it was.

[Bye]

Pronounced white.

Silva used to be based here.

[SPDB]

I had never heard of this course before today. looks fun.

where is the tee for the 9th? to the left of 8 green? is that
a body of water?

a great idea for making this 18, would be to play it backwards. it looks like it would be fun, and doable.

Honestly, though, hasn't Ross routed 18 holes on a similarly sized parcel?  

[Scott_Burroughs]

SPDB stumped on a New England course!  Didn't think it
could be done!  

9th tee looks just NW of 8th green, and tee shot looks to be over the water/cove.