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Kyle Harris

Favorite Named Architectural Features
« on: September 28, 2005, 01:44:42 PM »
What are your favorite "named" architectural features, and why?

Some of these features are copied nearly ad nauseum, like the Redan.

Others are found in delicious moderations like a good Alps or Eden hole.

Others once, like Tillie's Reef Hole, which I believe only exists in its true form now as the 12th at Bethpage Yellow.

Which named features or holes aren't there enough of? Too much of?

What are some examples of their best uses in regard to the flow of the golf course?

Brad Tufts

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Re:Favorite Named Architectural Features
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2005, 02:52:00 PM »
I always was under the impression that Emmet built a "Reef" hole at MacGregor Golf Links in Saratoga Springs.  #3, par 3, 230 yards.
So I jump ship in Hong Kong....

Jeff_Brauer

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Re:Favorite Named Architectural Features
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2005, 03:44:11 PM »
For features, and not holes, I love both the Church Pews and the "Devil's Asshole."
Jeff Brauer, ASGCA Director of Outreach

John Kirk

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Re:Favorite Named Architectural Features
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2005, 07:10:31 PM »
I like the Tension Headache Bunker on #13 and the Bunker of the Thrown Driver on #14 at Pumpkin Ridge-Witch Hollow.  #14 also has a small depression called The Layup Hole.  #12 at Ghost Creek used to have the Field Goal Posts, but one of the uprights was cut down.

OK, these are stupid names, and we made them up, but we did it a long time ago, and the names stuck. ;D ;D