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Anthony Gholz

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Alison's Timber Point damage?
« on: January 14, 2024, 11:23:45 AM »
To All:
On the ABC national news Tuesday or Wednesday they showed the coastline near Babylon on Long Island.  Houses destroyed and areas underwater etc.  I looked at mu GE map and saw how close, to my eye, that Alison's Timber Point was located.  I have no knowledge of tides and ocean flow etc, but I wondered if the famous Volcano Hole which is right on the POINT of TP has been damaged.
Does anyone have on-site knowledge of this?
By the way, I do understand that the 18-hole course Alison designed has been rearranged into 27 holes, but I still call it Alison because more than 9 playing corridors of his original 18 are still there.

Thanks in advance.Anthony

Cal Seifert

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Re: Alison's Timber Point damage?
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2024, 12:43:31 PM »
I'm sure the course is mostly underwater since that area of LI had bad flooding this week and most of the blue course sits basically at sea level. Although, I doubt much damage occurred on the Gibraltar hole as that green is very elevated.

Phil Carlucci

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Re: Alison's Timber Point damage?
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2024, 12:55:35 PM »
Usually it's the 6th and 7th holes at Timber Point Blue that absorb the brunt of these storms and the flooding that follows.  Gibraltar is #5 and sits up high above the adjacent fairways.  Timber Point's Blue nine (the bayfront nine) was out of commission for a while after Hurricane Irene in 2011, followed up by Sandy in 2012, and I'm pretty sure they've done some work since then to mitigate some level of storm damage.
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Anthony Gholz

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Re: Alison's Timber Point damage?
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2024, 10:44:11 AM »
Cal/Phil:  Thanks so much.  You give me hope.  If someone gets boots on the ground please comment.  And yes Gibraltar.  I should have re-read my own book:)
Anthony