So is a Golf Course with a Blind First Drive...

[ForkaB]

Adam

You are grasping at straws....

Sans hedge, the 1st at Cypress would be a much better golf hole--GCA wise, esthetically, and experientially.  Surely the members can have a whip-round some day, and then build a tunnel, rip up the road, tear down the hedge, and voila--one of the greatest opening holes in all of golfdom.  Now, if it were any place but Cypress, one's reaction on the tee would be "Whaaaaa???"

[Mike Benham]

Now, if it were any place but Cypress, one's reaction on the tee would be "Whaaaaa???"

No one has mentioned the first at Stanford ... similar set-up to CPC and arguably a much better view ..

[ForkaB]

Stanford's not blind is it, Mike?  Or have they added a hedge too, to protect the cars and bikers on Alameda des las Pulgas? and/or in some sort of perverted paroxysm of Cypress envy.....?

Boy, do I miss that rickety old bridge you had to cross to get across the road in the good old days......

More zinc, please, nurse!

[Tom Huckaby]

Good call, Mike - the two courses have similar issues also, with a busy road to be hit over.

Heck, if the members at Cypress wanted to, they surely could create the zillion-dollar "improvement" Rich suggests.  And an improvement it would be.  But is what's there now all that bad, making it worth doing?  I sure don't think so... I get what Adam's saying and the mystery/course unfolding is kinda neat.

I've always thought complaints about this hedge were much ado about nothing, but hey, you know happy me.  

[Tom Huckaby]

Stanford's not blind is it, Mike?  Or have they added a hedge too, to protect the cars and bikers on Alameda des las Pulgas? and/or in some sort of perverted paroxysm of Cypress envy.....?

Boy, do I miss that rickety old bridge you had to cross to get across the road in the good old days......

More zinc, please, nurse!

No blindness at Stanford.
But yes, not really a uniform hedge, but bushes there have been allowed to grow pretty tall, protecting horrid tops and the like from reaching the road, which is not Alameda de las Pulgas, btw - that starts on the other side of Sand Hill.  And I miss that old bridge also.  

[Mike Benham]

Junipero Serra Blvd ...

From the back tees (Cardinal in color) you can not see the fairway landing area ... so, it is not perfectly blind I suppose ...

[Tom Huckaby]

Junipero Serra Blvd ...

From the back tees (Cardinal in color) you can not see the fairway landing area ... so, it is not perfectly blind I suppose ...

MB - have you see the new way-back tee alongside the putting green?  Yep, plenty blind from back there.  But normal tees have blindness only in that you can't see the road and the first part of the fairway.

Great hole, great course.

[Marty Bonnar]

At tremendous risk of personal injury, I have dared to tinker with a Masterpiece. Have I painted a moustache on the Mona Lisa or finished the Unfinished Symphony?



So, the question is (as my Optician always says): Better or Worse, Hmmm?

FBD.

[Joe Hancock]

FBD,

You, like most opticians, have positioned yourself uncomfortably close to our crotch.

Joe

[Tom Huckaby]

Martin:

That would be better.  But of course you've eliminated the road, which just plain isn't going to happen.  Put the road back in there, add the parade of tourist vehicles, then ask the question again.

 

[Marty Bonnar]

Every problem has a simple, elegant and subtle solution...



 
FBD.

[Tom Huckaby]

Love it!

 

[Mike Hendren]

And just think, everybody blames The Americans for ruining the game.

[ForkaB]

Martin

How about getting rid of ALL the vegetation (include those "foozle" trees) and putting railroad-style level crossings at each side of the picture?

Thanking you in advance.

Rich

[Mike Benham]

Martin:

That would be better.  But of course you've eliminated the road, which just plain isn't going to happen.  Put the road back in there, add the parade of tourist vehicles, then ask the question again.

 

Martin - can you put in the delivery truck that was driving by that I hit over just for your enjoyment ?

[Marty Bonnar]

Of course, MB - certain vehicles will ALWAYS have priority...



 
FBD.

[Evan Fleisher]

Of course, MB - certain vehicles will ALWAYS have priority...



 
FBD.

...and you all wonder how all these crazy-looking pictures circulate around the internet, like the one of the kids on top of the World Trade Center with the plane just below him.