Ran's 31 Flavors of Golf

[NAF]

Ran,

Maybe a 2nd wife again of Aussie persuasion will do me well...I am looking fwd to spending some time at Bondi after my days on the course.

[Tim_Weiman]

Ran:

Among the 31 favors, I'd go with a couple based on ambiance.  Perhaps one on each side of the pond.

[Chris K]

NAF,

I am a member at Commonwealth GC, would be more than happy to host you there for a day.

[Mike_Cirba]

Jeff Lewis,

My understanding is that Tom Fazio has been retained at Quaker Ridge and that the first order of business is to soften the slope of the first green.  For a short par five, that seems to take away the exactness currently required.

Any additional plans in the works?

[Peter Galea]

Mike C. I seem to remember that the work to be done to Quaker's #1 green was to reclaim pinnable area on the front of the green. Over the years this area has settled. I liked the green the way it was but the flag was set back.
Maybe because we played is as "#10" it wasn't as demanding as it should have been.

[Ben Cowan-Dewar]

Chris K. can you email me, I have a question for you.

bencd@golftravelinformation.com

[Jeff_Lewis]

Mike Cirba,
You are correct that Fazio has been retained and that work on the first green has just been done. The green was extraordinarily limited in terms of pinnable areas. The intention is for the green to remain the most severe on the course, and for its overall shape to be unchanged. The front half of the green was not touched at all. Will give you a report when I see the green and it has healed and settled.

[Mike_Cirba]

Jeff Lewis,

Thanks for the update.  I'll be interested to hear your impressions and hope the work goes well.  

[Colin]

I 've been meaning  to post that NGLA and Shinnecock do form a composite course, contrary to what someone said in an earlier post on this topic. From the tenth tee at National, a drive can be reasonable played into the third fairway of Shinnecock to make a strong par-four. And from the third tee at Shinnecock a well played drive will finish in the tenth fairway at National.

I played it once with a friend--1 through 10, the 3 through 2 of Shinnecock and then ten through 18 of National. We called it the double helix.

[SPDB]

It was me who said that. I was referring more to the feasibility of a composite course. Certainly one could play from NGLA to SH, but I don't think you could make a reasonable composite course out of the two of them. Nor would you want to (as tantalizing as that might seem), those two courses need no interruption to their own design.

I was also taking more of an issue with the claim that WF/Quaker create contiguous properties from which a composite course could be drawn. Not so. close, but no ceeegar

[George Pazin]

bump

[Garland Bayley]

Thanks George,

I have always been curious about this. At one time, I thought about hypothesizing such a list from his course reviews here.

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