I posted what I could, I ran out of web space.
Mark,
This is the best routing of all the Travis courses that I have seen. There are a few where I question the routing, but this one nails what is a difficult and exciting piece of property. The course start on top of the Niagara Escarpment and the property tumbles quite quickly away below. There are no flat holes, and each has quite a large fall in one direction or the other. Half the greens at Lookout are still original and many are devestatingly tough. This is one of my 10 favourite courses in the country.
A look from the first fairway across the original fairway bunkers (restored) towards the first green. Note the wild mounding in the trees on the right. Some are as high as 10 feet. We have removed as many trees as the club can stomach for now. The drop from tee to green is 100 feet.
The amazing short and very sidehill par 5 3rd hole. The approach is into a 3,000.ft. green with roll-offs on both sides. Over the back is a 20 foot drop too. Missing wide or long is deadly. Once you've played the holes a few times you realize the prudent play is to bounce in your approach.
The only 140 yard hole I know where you try bounce the ball in. The green has since been squared up to bring it to a whopping 2800 sq.ft. Bunkers are 6 feet deep on either side with a 12 foot sheer fall off the at the back.
I put this one in to illustrate that the 7th fairway has 30 feet, yes 30 feet, of cross fall in the middle. It takes a lot of skill to lay-up in the fairway.
The 10th is all about the shot into the plateau green. The green is quite small at around 3700 sq.ft. The front bank is a steep 20 foot face; and what is not at first apparent is the back falls away just as fast with a bunker mid way down.
The 14th is straight up the hill at 445 yards and is a brute. The mounds in the middle are supposed to be fescue but have been unfortunately cut in more recent times. The green is like a waterbed in motion and pretty much ends the possibility of par
These mounds are 100 yards off the tee on the short par four 15th. They are original. The 15th is a wild rollercoaster of a fairway to a green that falls away from play.
The 16th and 17th were combined when the club made the changes to remove 8 green and the 9th hole (for a driving range). These are the fairway bunkers on the short 16th (those I added).
This is looking down at the current 18th hole to the green that replaced the old 8th (routing was mixed around at that time). The green is a small high tabletop green with a devestating drop from back to front. Good luck trying not to putt into the front bunkers!
Hope that gives you a feel for the place.