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George Pazin

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The Links at Fancourt
« on: January 19, 2012, 11:08:47 AM »
The Euro Tour is there this week, and I can't recall much discussion of this course, even with the President's Cup there a few years back.

The one thing that stands out to me on the tube is the land movement. Is it real? Manufactured? As good as it looks?

Any info would be appreciated.
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Bart Bradley

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Re: The Links at Fancourt
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2012, 11:17:33 AM »
George:

The entire site is manufactured.  The area was once a flat airstrip.  I liked a lot about the course....nice routing, very walkable, interesting green contours.   2 major distractions..

1  .they used a mix of bunker styles in a way that the juxtaposition was striking and visually disturbing.
2.  in the bunkers that were of the sod wall variety, they had replaced the stack sod with some sort of vinyl sand filled tubes stacked on each other (as of 2 years ago)

The longer I am away from Fancourt, however, the more appreciation I have for the quality of the site manufacturing and the extent of the work to make the whole environment seem to be natural and unified.

Bart
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George Pazin

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Re: The Links at Fancourt
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2012, 01:25:39 PM »
Thanks, Bart.

The more I see of all golf, the less I am interested in hazard placement, and the more I am interested in land movement. I think the opportunity for uneven lies is far more interesting than the challenge of hazards.
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Reef Wilson

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Re: The Links at Fancourt
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2012, 02:54:18 AM »
Besides what was already mentioned which is very accurate, I have to emphasize how soggy and slow the place plays or at least it did for me and I was told that was the norm. I had a hard time getting past that part of it. Even without several forced carries there was no way to play the ground game. I was just coming off a good year with a tour of Scotland and a lengthy Bandon trip so I was probably more in touch with what a links should be than ever. I've since learned to lower my expectations for "links" courses in places where they don't belong.

However, I had a very fun round on the Fancourt Montagu course which was fresh off a revamp by DMK and would recommend that higher, especially when factoring in price.

Reef
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