Golf courses with an echo

[Michael Moore]

So there I was, at an undisclosed public park today, ripping nine irons and taking home movies in an attempt to get my swing a little less, how shall I say, Allen Doyle-ish. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

When I got back to my computer to look at the results, which were pleasingly upright by another few millimeters, I noticed that the strike sounded especially satisfying because it had an echo from the wall of trees some distance off.

I remember a perhaps apocryphal story about one of the Japanese golfers at the Masters who played with persimmon when he did not have to because he so loved its echo through the trees.  Have any of you noticed this while playing or spectating?

Have you ever experienced or designed for a nice pronounced echo?

[Matt OBrien]

I want some of what you were smoking.......Never heard of that

[Tim Gavrich]

I'm not familiar with the echo, but one of golf's lost sounds is hearing the "whooosh" of a well-struck older golf ball off a late wooden or early metal wood face.

[Matthew Sander]

I want some of what you were smoking.......Never heard of that

I know exactly what Mr. Moore is speaking of, and it has nothing to do with illegal substances. I've mentioned it here before, but the auditory component of spectating at ANGC's 10th (the second shot) is something to behold.

I also made mention to Andrew Lewis about this very thing during one of our rounds at Kingsley. Hole 12 is down in a valley with a tree covered hillside on the left and another treeless slope on the right. I've never played golf in a more quiet spot, until the iron shots echoed through the tunnel-like surroundings.

[Mark Bourgeois]

The way the trees hemmed in the 2nd tee at The Addington I used to have fight to hit a full-blooded tee shot and not to flinch at contact in anticipation of the "rifle-shot" echo.

[RJ_Daley]

I don't think that echo through the woods is all that unique, particularly on tall pine or old hardwood forest lined hole corridors.  And, there are courses that have corridors going through mini canyons.  Interesting that Matt mentions Kingsley, and I also in my short time there remember that sound off of 18 tee.  But, on another DeVries course, Greywalls, you can get both the tall pine and wooded lined corridor and the greywalls of the rock amphitheater settings of a couple of the holes.  

We have a tee on my own course where the echo sound is particularly prominent and I notice it all the time.

[Tim Leahy]

The Olympic Club has a definite echo. Also found it in Lake Tahoe area at Tahoe Donner and Incline Village.

[Kevin_Reilly]

Something like this?  I hope your strikes sounded as good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w81j8dXzHQI

[Jack_Marr]

The garden hole in Coollattin has a most satisfying echo, but more so as the ball lands on the green. It's in a walled garden area.

I hope Kevin Markham doesn't mind me posting one of his pictures. I think he's a member here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmarkham/5202173780/in/set-72157625329880157/

Then there's the 10th at Carne. It's called macalla, which is the Irish for echo.

http://carnegolflinks.com/hole10.html

[Gene Greco]

Loudest echoes to which Mr Moore refers were at Eugene CC.

 The fairways are lined with trees which touch the sky.

[Pete_Pittock]

I remembered noticing an echo months ago, but trying to nail down which course has been bouncing around my head for a while.

Finally figured it out as the 7th tee at Waverley CC with me standing slightly forward and to the right of the hitter. Not a good standing point
for safety sake, but good for catching the echo off the branches to the left of the player.

Pretty much a "tree fell in the woods...." scenario.

[Wade Whitehead]

We heard echos a couple of times at Redlands Mesa.  I guess Canyon walls - and dinosaur fossils - will do that.

WW