I love Ha-Has both in landscape architecture and functionally on golf courses.
We are just about to do one right now to hide most of the cart path behind the clubhouse at GMGC.
MikeC:
No, the earthen works at NGLA on #11 and #8 are not Ha-Has, they are vertical berms and they aren't original. To create a Ha-Ha on those two holes they would have to drop the public road down about five feet (which shouldn't be that much of a problem for NGLA, I'm sure
).
Ardrossan Farm had a great Ha-Ha, and had I thought of the use of another one on one hole that project and GMGC might be at Ardrossan Farm right now.
Mallow Castle in Mallow Ireland has a Ha-Ha that keeps in a herd of minature white deer that have been there for years.
Someone at The Creek in LI was wondering the other day if there was an old Ha-Ha on the Cravath estate known as Veraton that preceded The Creek that crosses the 18th. I think it may just have been an old road on the estate that ran along a slightly raised ridgeline.
Anbody want to hear the etymology of the landscape architecture term Ha-Ha?