Bob, you're obviously biased toward MPCC, to call the third at Spyglass an ordinary hole is ridiculous. If I used all the adjectives you did for MPCC on Spyglass I could make it sound better than Cypress Point(I won't and it isn't, but neither is MPCC) The experience of playing may change my mind, but I doubt it. Spyglass is superior and the critics agree, I don't recall seeing MPCC on any top 100 lists.

Quote from: Bob_Huntley on May 18, 2006, 08:23:53 PM

 Spyglass is superior and the critics agree, I don't recall seeing MPCC on any top 100 lists.

Tim,

Suggest you look again.

A bit of hyperbole is always a possibility when discussing one's own course on that I agree. However, I cannot see how you could be so adamantly sure of your position when you haven't played the courses



Bob

Quote from: Bob_Huntley on May 18, 2006, 08:23:53 PM

Tim,Take Spyglass's par threes, please. The third is an okay drop down short iron with a pleasing ocean view over a bunch of houses. The fifth, a demanding long iron from the back. The twelth a good mid iron with water on the left, not too much difficulty here, the fifteenth another drop down wedge, pretty easy.
Go to the Dunes. The fourth a superb Biarritz of 238 yards with a stream to the left and a forest to the right. The seventh a delightful long iron from the back across a deep depression and well bunkered. The tenth, picked out by Raynor and completed by Hunter/ MacKenzie, one of the great vistas in golf and a tiny green and then, the piece de resistance, the fourteenth. From the back, 177 to 189  yards across rocks and ocean to a green perched on the edge of the world. I am afraid Spyglass cannot compare.
We could then go on to discuss the five par threes on the Shore but that would just be a sadistic overkill. Bob

Bob, you're obviously biased toward MPCC, to call the third at Spyglass an ordinary hole is ridiculous. If I used all the adjectives you did for MPCC on Spyglass I could make it sound better than Cypress Point(I won't and it isn't, but neither is MPCC) The experience of playing may change my mind, but I doubt it. Spyglass is superior and the critics agree, I don't recall seeing MPCC on any top 100 lists.

Quote from: Peter Pittock on May 18, 2006, 07:14:59 PM

Bend, OR - Crosswater, Pronghorn, Broken Top

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So Peter, which one of these do you keep once the C&C and Doak courses open in Bend.


I find it interesting that Oregon is only represented by courses far from Portland (Bend and Bandon). I haven't played a lot of different courses around Portland, but I'll chime in with
Reserve Vineyards North, Cupp
Heron Lakes, Blue Heron, some Jones, probably Jr.
OGA members course, Bill Robinson

If the front nine at Eastmoreland were anywhere as good as the back nine, it would be in there.

Tom H: thanks for tip.....please advise going north for 45 holes.   Doable?

Olympic par 3 (Weiskopf)
Meadow Club
Mayacama

Quote from: Evan_Fleisher on May 19, 2006, 03:22:59 PM

WRONG!
Please check out #41... Golfweek's Top 100 Modern

My bad, oh yea, Spyglass was #15 on that list! Gotcha!