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Brian Phillips
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Who designed the Emirates course in Dubai?
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Does anyone know who designed the course?
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Brian
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Tommy_Naccarato
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Re: Who designed the Emirates course in Dubai?
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Desmond Muirhead
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Greg Ramsay
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Re: Who designed the Emirates course in Dubai?
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I understood that Karl Litten designed the Emirates, the Dubai Racing CLub course, and the Dubai Creek course as well. Talk about a monoculture of designers! I worked in Dubai for a short time, and played them all and whilst very enjoyable and fantastic engineering feats, i wouldn't say any had great architectural values. Greg Norman Design is chasing a job there at the moment with Troon Golf, they may have got it actually.
Greg Ramsay
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Mike_Cirba
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Re: Who designed the Emirates course in Dubai?
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April 13, 2002, 09:16:01 PM »
Greg is correct. THe Emirates course was designed by FLorida-based architect Karl Litten. I played one of his courses in NJ (Cape May National), which has some fairly decent architecture, if perhaps an over-emphasis on forced carries in spots.
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Tommy_Naccarato
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Sorry, I spoke too soon. Thats two out of three nights I have done that!
Desmond designed Emirates Hills.
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Greg Ramsay
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Re: Who designed the Emirates course in Dubai?
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I totally agree with Mike about the forced carries. In my opinion forced carries (eg like Litten's bunker-ringed greens at Emirates where there is absolutely no opening) show a lack of attention to the finer parts of golf course architecture.
Greg Ramsay
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Tommy_Naccarato
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Re: Who designed the Emirates course in Dubai?
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We have one of our very own Litton courses here in Orange County! Of course it has Gary Player's name on it--Pacific Golf Club in San Clemente. (Which also, in fine OC fashion has nary a view of the Pacific)
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