"Any other holes at Rustic you would like to discuss? (the more I think about my one play, the more that #1 intrigues me - perhaps we'll do that hole later this week).
I wish we had a couple of Rustic 'experts' available to post on this thread."
James:
I wish we did too. The ones I'd like to see do that on here are either Gil or Jim Wagner and most certainly Geoff Shackelford. Why don't you email Geoff and ask him to put his thoughts on those holes on here? Asking those guys to explain their concept thinking on some of the holes on the course would be pretty neat.
When I was out there that one or two days only the course had not even gone into construction. Actually, it was an interesting day for Geoff Shackelford, I could tell, because there was a tractor out there basically mowing out the fairway lines for the first time. I could tell that was really cool for Geoff because it was the first time after analyzing that site for years when something of the way the course would be was beginning to come in as a look.
We did spend some time on #1 and I kind of remember there was something about it that was somewhat unsettling to me or maybe not right in some way. Or maybe I'm wrong about that and that was a hole Geoff really liked in concept.
I remember thinking that two of the greens sort of slotted and oriented in near the driveway in what I thought might seem like too much similarity in either look or play.
Could that have been #1 and #3 that have greens that are sort of slotted and oriented right along the driveway?
To me this just underscores how neat and educational it can be to get out on raw sites with a routing and hole by hole plan and talk about how things will work through construction and later in play.
Anybody who gets that opportunity should grab it. It's a great learning experience in architecture, particularly conceptually.