Scale and breaking up the monotony

[Josh Smith]

What are some of your favorite examples of how a design used scale to enhance your enjoyment of the course.

Varying sCaLe and size of features is one of the underutilized aspects of golf architecture in my mind.

A few great examples of wonderful variety of scale on courses that jump out at me throughout the round are seen at Kingsley Club, Old

Macdonald, Bandon Trails, and Pacific Dunes. 

Got any other nice examples of courses or holes, features in particular?

[Mac Plumart]

The bunker on 13 at Harbor Town might fit that bill.

Tight narrow fairway, comes around the corner to a massive bunker defending a very small green.

[Patrick_Mucci]

Bethpage Black and ANGC use scale very well.

The enormous size of fairway bunkers makes them appear closer, thus deceiving the golfer off the tee.

[Tom_Doak]

What are some of your favorite examples of how a design used scale to enhance your enjoyment of the course.

Varying sCaLe and size of features is one of the underutilized aspects of golf architecture in my mind.

A few great examples of wonderful variety of scale on courses that jump out at me throughout the round are seen at Kingsley Club, Old

Macdonald, Bandon Trails, and Pacific Dunes. 

Got any other nice examples of courses or holes, features in particular?

Josh:

I was thinking about what you wrote, and about how some of my favorite courses have little bits of native vegetation crowding the tee or breaking up the path to the fairway to get you to focus down and break up the wide open spaces.  [Royal Melbourne used to be the sine qua non of that, until they changed the walk paths to allow carts.]

Anyway, what occurred to me is why I see so much jiggedy-edged bunkering I don't like:  the small scale of the jigs clashes with the big scale of the bunker when viewed from far away.  That sort of work has to be done by going back and forth between the bunker and the places you'll view it from.

[Ross Tuddenham]

mac mentioned a massive bunker defending a small green on Harbour Towns 13th, would the 8th at TOC offer up the opposite.  A small pot bunker defending a massive green?

[Joel_Stewart]

Shadow Creek has a hole that does the same, I believe it's the 11th.

[Gary Daughters]

I love the question.  How about the huge, flying saucer green at Lookout Mountain's Alps hole?  Behind it the Blue Ridge Mountains.  Vast and vaster.