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Kalen Braley

Guess the AoTD!!
« on: May 26, 2016, 04:21:06 PM »
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Mike Nuzzo

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2016, 04:29:02 PM »
I would rather go there!
I don't understand why they didn't develop around the course?
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Tom_Doak

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2016, 07:45:09 PM »
Wow, that's a blast from the past.  It took me a couple of minutes to recognize it, although that's the best part of the course that is left.  From the looks of "progress" they might as well have kept it open a while longer.


The woods around the still-existing holes are all wetlands and would be impossible to develop.
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Carl Rogers

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2016, 08:42:20 PM »
6 weeks before it closed, Scott Weersing and I got in 54 holes over 2 days.  My first taste of destination golf.
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Tommy Williamsen

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2016, 09:39:33 PM »
Beechtree?
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James Bennett

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2016, 09:51:08 PM »
Back nine at Beechtree Tommy W?  Par 3 16th at the top of the pic (Eden green IIRC).

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Tommy Williamsen

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2016, 10:00:04 PM »
I played it only once, the year it opened. I must admit I wasn't ready for it. It was so subtle that I think I missed stuff I should have seen. I'd like to have played it again.
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Cory Lewis

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2016, 07:10:06 AM »
Man that is brutal to see.  I worked their for 2 years.  Had the pleasure of hosting 2 outings for GCA guys as well as meeting many others.  The stretch from 12 to 15 was all world.  Damn I miss that place!!!
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Kalen Braley

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2016, 05:28:11 PM »
I got to play it a couple of weeks before it closed with fellow GCA'er Kyle Harris...it was a fun course!!

And yes as Tommy says, its what's left of Beechtree...
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Kyle Harris

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2016, 09:55:53 AM »
Quote from: Kalen Braley on May 29, 2016, 05:28:11 PM
I got to play it a couple of weeks before it closed with fellow GCA'er Kyle Harris...it was a fun course!!

And yes as Tommy says, its what's left of Beechtree...

Weeks!?

We played the day before it closed...

...and had a frost delay.
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Kalen Braley

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2016, 03:10:44 PM »
Quote from: Kyle Harris on May 30, 2016, 09:55:53 AM
Quote from: Kalen Braley on May 29, 2016, 05:28:11 PM
I got to play it a couple of weeks before it closed with fellow GCA'er Kyle Harris...it was a fun course!!

And yes as Tommy says, its what's left of Beechtree...

Weeks!?

We played the day before it closed...

...and had a frost delay.

I did remember the frost delay...which I thought was absurd.  I guess my memory was a bit off on the time frame.  The course was still in great shape, I remember that.
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James Brown

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2016, 05:02:52 PM »
Sad to say I discovered it only the year before it closed.  Wonderful track.  Our nearest Doak course in DC.  Next nearest would be in VA Beach I believe. 
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Eric Hammerbacher

Re: Guess the AoTD!!
« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2016, 07:05:59 PM »
Ugh, you should see it now...the 7th hole is all townhouses now.  There's a big ugly entrance with huge columns and archways and it's just bad.  Every time my Dad and I drive by the course we end up talking about how much we miss it. 
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