What is the last thing you learned while playing a famous course. No names!!

[Phil McDade]

John:

I have a pretty broad definition of famous; hope it meshes with yours.

[Anthony Butler]

I learned what it must be like to be a professional playing these types of courses... It was a scramble event and we shot 63 on a course with 75 rating and 143 slope. When your mindset is completely focused on scoring, you regard hazards simply as things to help you calibrate your target, not something to be avoided with dread.

I have to incorporate more of that feeling into my game when playing my own ball, no matter how hard the course.

[John Kavanaugh]

John:

I have a pretty broad definition of famous; hope it meshes with yours.

If fifty percent of golfers who play over 40 rounds per year have heard of a course over 100 miles of their home I would call it famous.

[Kalen Braley]

I learned that when playing said course, it took awhile to get stoked about playing my home muni again.

Its like driving a rental cadillac for a week with all the extras on a trip, and then going home and realizing its back to the ol Dodge Neon...it takes a couple of weeks to get adjusted back!!  

[Anthony Butler]

I learned that when playing said course, it took awhile to get stoked about playing my home muni again.

Its like driving a rental cadillac for a week with all the extras on a trip, and then going home and realizing its back to the ol Dodge Neon...it takes a couple of weeks to get adjusted back!!  

Sounds suspiciously like airline upgrade syndrome. You never realized just how crowded economy was before...

[Sean_A]

I think the last thing I learned on a great course is that all the holes don't have to stand out and perhaps, just perhaps, it may not be a good thing to have 18 excellent holes - not that I have ever experienced this.  The rhythm/flow of a course is darn near as important as the land/routing.  

Ciao

[Phil Benedict]

That greens that slope from front to back are really cool and under-utilized.

[Ryan Farrow]

Sometimes the holes you don't know much about have a much greater impact on you than the hole with say, a bunker in the middle of the green, or the most famous short par 4 in golf. I think Hogan knows best.

[Walt_Cutshall]

That you really can't tell much about a course just by seeing it on TV.

[Roger Tufts]

The latest thing I learned is that dunes don't necessarily have to be played around or routed between. They can be hit over, curl around... There is so much I learned about routing this year, I could go on for a while.

And the statement above doesn't give justice to what I've learned. It is hard to put into words.

[Jim Thompson]

1.  Even ODGs struggled with drainage issues.

2.  Surface drainage is better than catch basins.

3.  Repetitive subtleness is BORING!

[Sean_A]

1.  Even ODGs struggled with drainage issues.

2.  Surface drainage is better than catch basins.

3.  Repetitive subtleness is BORING!

Jim

Your point about ODGs stuggling with drainage is well taken.  I was just saying how the heathland courses have a great rep for drainage, but I think it is a bit ott.  These courses do get a bit sloppy.  

Ciao