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John Kavanaugh

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Re: Riviera 2012 and popular perception
« Reply #25 on: February 21, 2012, 11:42:22 PM »
To hit a draw into the 18th at Riviera you would have to come in from so far left you may as well order a martini from the bar at the Chateau Marmont. It is a fade hole.

Michael Robin

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Re: Riviera 2012 and popular perception
« Reply #26 on: February 22, 2012, 01:29:25 AM »
Mmmm, Chateau Marmont is east of the 18th. Gotta use the bar at Taverna Tony's.  :)

I think there were two trees up on the hill. They were mostly out of play unless you hit the ball really far left on your 2nd shot. I don't remember the real reason they were taken down. Had something to do with the fact that they were not originally part of the design. I do think the cleaner aesthetic is indeed better.

Mike Benham

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Re: Riviera 2012 and popular perception
« Reply #27 on: February 23, 2012, 06:27:14 PM »
Posting on behalf Mr. Bob Huntley -


"In going through some old score cards from Riviera days I came across this article by Jim Murray in the Los Angeles Times. His locker was next to mine, we became friends and I scoured every word he wrote; I can think of very few sports writers who had such an ability to set a place and time to think you might have been there.

Bob"


I've scanned the article, from the LA Times, that Bob forwarded to me, however, the last few sentences were not included.  

"... Hogan, had driven in the deep rough and had a lie behind a tree stump and on a root as I came up.  He looked at me sarcastically.  “How,” he asked, “would Hogan play it from here?”  I looked at the shot.  “Hogan,”, I told him carefully, “would not be here.”"


Through the power of Google, I found that the article was syndicated and published in the Milwaukee Sentinel on Jan. 6, 1967 (interestingly enough, along side a "Super Bowl" advertisement for Color TVs ... yes, the Packers were playing the Chiefs in the "first" Super Bowl one week later)


http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19670106&id=DnMxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DxEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7171,1151583


"... and I liked the guy ..."

Kalen Braley

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Re: Riviera 2012 and popular perception
« Reply #28 on: February 23, 2012, 07:31:25 PM »
So Jim Murray:

1) Lamented tree removal
2) Despised fairway widening
3) Loved narrow playing corridors

Sounds like he would fit in perfect here at GCA.com.   ::)

P.S. Did Jim not see what the course looked like when it 1st opened?

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