Here's one more photo with some interesting background. Last year we hosted the ajga mcdonalds tournament. morgan pressel won the tournament by 11 shots and was the only girl under par at 6 under for the 54 hole tournament, including an ace at the 3rd hole on the final day!
Anyway, Ivan Lendl's two daughters were playing in the tournament and he was at the club all week. I happened to catch him after he finished playing one day and his comments were "I love the course" "They need to take down those trees behind 10!" and "I love golf course architecture!". I had never really thought about it but Ivan pointed out that if we took down those trees we would see the lake/pond on 17 in the background of the shot and give the player a feel of uneasiness while hitting their downhill shot with no real framing. He was really adamant about taking those trees down. I've started some informal lobbying to make it happen but its gonna take some more convincing.
Anyway, here's the photo of 10, i think it nicely illustrates what ivan is talking about. does anyone know how to photoshop out those trees?
And yes, I told Ivan about this site and he was very interested in checking it out, so I wouldn't be suprised if he's reading this
