Dr. Childs, where are you going?

[Garland Bayley]

There is a short par 4 at the Reserve Vineyards North course that often has people mistakenly playing for the green of the following par 3. I was planning to play to the wrong green looking at the sprinkler heads and thinking my depth perception had gone haywire. Then Peter P pointed out where I should be hitting, which was a blind shot to the green. I hit it where he said, and voila! birdie!

[Garland Bayley]

As far as whether it is good architecture or not. I say it is neither, just unfortunate. Just like a blind hole, after the first time around you know where things are.

I did play a course, Buffalo Peak, Union, OR, where we stood on the tee on more than a few holes and argued about where we were going as it was not clear.

Not my favorite course by a long shot.

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Somewhere in the In My Opinion section there's a piece I did on playing Leadhills with hickories.  The first time I played there, on my own in mid winter I got totally lost.  I couldn't find some tees or work out to which greens I should be playing.  But as there was nobody else stupid enough to be out there I made up my own holes as I played.  It was quite good fun, really.

It's not really a propos the subject, but on another winter round I played Halifax, a wild, moorland course in the Pennines.  After about 14 holes, when I was right out on top of Ilkley Moor it began to snow.  I coudn't see the clubhouse and knew that there were some dangerous precipices if I attempted the direct route back, so I had to follow the course, doubling back on myself, simply to get back to the safety of the clubhouse (which was, of course, by then locked).  Fortunately I had my car keys with me and I had to drive on in my soaking wet golf shoes and golf clothing and go back another day to collect my clothes.  The only trouble was i was on my way to Leeds to record a symphony concert.  I stayed inside our recording van that night!

[TEPaul]

Apparently Sergio played directly over the green to the babe in the bikini on the raft in the swimming pool not once, not twice but three times in the course of a 72  hole tournament. Although his caddie thought it was a mistake it seemed Garcia didn't.

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