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Neil Regan

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Fishers Island - A few pictures
« on: October 14, 2005, 08:05:35 AM »
From a recent idyll in paradise.

Fishers Island

On the 2nd tee


The Punchbowl 4th


The Biarritz 5th, from the back black tee at 229 yards (click here for a very large version)




The Eden 11th. NAFfer was inspired. Two early bads, then close to par the rest of the day.


The Short 16th. Two views.




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Steve Pozaric

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2005, 09:23:53 AM »
Those are some fantastic pictures.  It seems like the weather was absolutely ideal for photos that day.  What kind of camera did you use with what kind of settings?
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Evan Fleisher

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2005, 09:35:32 AM »
Wow!

What great photos...and the scenery ain't too bad either!!!  ;D 8)

Nice work Neil...the place looks stunning.
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Lawrence Largent

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2005, 11:00:59 AM »
If the title hadn't said Fishers Island I would have thought it was heaven!


Lawrence
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Geoffrey_Walsh

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2005, 01:02:55 PM »
Neil,

Thanks for taking me back to memories of my round there last year...

People will never truly understand how beautiful that place is unless they see it with their own eyes... but your pictures come about as close as you can get to doing it justice!
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Neil Regan

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2005, 01:27:02 AM »
  (A friend asked me what I thought of Fishers. Here is what I wrote to him.)

  Fishers is a very good golf course, and as good as any for splendid isolation. The island is narrow,
only a fairway wide at one point, where it can become 2 islands in a hurricane. The course winds
along the coast and resembles a linked chain. The residents have restrained themselves quite successfully.
There are houses, but they are almost hidden, and never intrude.
  The turf is soft, but as the fairways are not irrigated, they can be dry and firm. Donnie Beck and Gil Hanse
are guiding the willing membership back to the faded greatness of the course itself. Shrunken greens had lost
their very essence, but are being restored. Imagine a plateaued green that had lost its plateau,
or a green divided by a Raynor spine that no longer had any pinnable area over the spine. That is what Donnie
is recovering. What has been done already has apparently received acclaim bordering on revelationary awe. The work is thus accelerating.

  As you know, golf has no substitute for wind from the sea. Fishers has that wind,
and all your senses always know the sea is very near. The golf is fine, the day is grand,
and life is worth all its weariness for the time spent on this links.


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RDecker

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2005, 06:57:35 AM »
Some truly inspiring photos, when the wind is up the course must be very challenging.
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Glen Rapoport

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2005, 12:15:55 PM »
Neil,

Adding my congratulations on wonderful photographs.  Can you share the information on the camera and any settings that you used to produce the nice result?

Glen
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Paul_Turner

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2005, 09:08:05 PM »
Splendid!  Is the 4th a bit like Perfection (14th) at North Berwick?
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Bill_McBride

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2005, 09:15:16 PM »
The Eden looks a bit flattish -- how much slope is there front to back and left to right?  Without a Strath bunker it's a different look.  Beautiful setting!
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ed_getka

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2005, 10:23:16 PM »
Bill,
   The foreshortening effect of the photo makes it look flatter than it is. The slope isn't nearly as severe as the original, but it has enough to keep you on your toes with a front pin where the slope is more pronounced. I liked the mound to the right which helps protect a front pin especially.
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Michael Moore

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2005, 11:24:40 PM »
Why is that golf bag leaning against the bench?

Is that one of those coveted "Sunday" bags?

I met Sweeney at CAGC Cape Arundel this summer, and we're walking to the first tee, and I'm like "dude, that was nice of your son to lend you his golf bag."
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Tiger_Bernhardt

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2005, 02:18:19 PM »
Neil, thank you very much for those pictures. The uphill nature of the Biarritz makes this the days last moments on the computor and out to hit some balls I go.
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Mike_Cirba

Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2005, 12:44:39 AM »
Neil,

Thanks for the pictures...they are superb, as is your description.

All,

Take a good look at the left side of the first of Neil's pics to get some sense of the 3rd hole, which is one of the best short par fours in the world to a skyline green that is beyond belief.  FI has some of the best holes in the world, and the stretch from 3 through 12 is mindblowing.  
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Neil Regan

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2005, 03:56:41 AM »
Quote from: Mike Cirba on October 17, 2005, 12:44:39 AM
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Take a good look at the left side of the first of Neil's pics to get some sense of the 3rd hole, which is one of the best short par fours in the world to a skyline green that is beyond belief. ...

  Mike,

   When you are standing on the 2nd tee, as are Steve, Noel, and Geoffrey in the picture, you just have to be dying to get to the third, or else you don't love golf.
   It has all sorts of classic appeal:
      It's short enough for all to get close, and some to reach;
      it offers big differences for the second shot from left and right and near and far;
      the raised front suggests, for safety, a slightly strong approach and thus a longish downhill putt to any front pin,
         yet the approach can also be putted, if you dare;
      the side bunkers are dramatically deep and perhaps fearsome; and,
      best of all,
     all golfers are rewarded on the green with a thrilling view of the sea and promises of more such golf to follow, all day.

  Here is another picture of it:

Fishers Island

The Skyline 3rd [/color][/size]



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Mike_Sweeney

Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2005, 07:27:00 AM »
Quote from: Mike Cirba on October 17, 2005, 12:44:39 AM
Take a good look at the left side of the first of Neil's pics to get some sense of the 3rd hole, which is one of the best short par fours in the world to a skyline green that is beyond belief.  

Mike Cirba taking his own advice!



Looking back on #3 from the skyline green



Personally, I kind of like this housing tract!
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Brian Krex

Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2005, 05:48:41 PM »
Neil--thanks for the incredible pictures--just what I need sitting here under piles of paper: Envy.

Nice to see you at WF yesterday.

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PThomas

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2005, 06:13:21 PM »
it can't be a coincidence that ALL pics of FI look great!

thanks Neil
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peter_mcknight

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Re:Fishers Island - A few pictures
« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2005, 07:20:57 PM »
Ah, the pictures are truly wonderful, especially when stuck in the middle of urban Santa Ana at work!

I love the picture of the short 16th--what a far superior design than one sees on the 8th at Spanish Bay.

As a resident of Southern California, I have the unfortunate pleasure of having courses like Trump National Los Angeles.  Given the terrain on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and an inspired architect, maybe something similar could have been designed here in the southland with that kind of flair, views, great playability and a tremendous walking component.
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