1st tee at Machrahanish

4th green at Sunningdale Old looking down the 5th and 6th holes.

18th fairway on TOC 30 yeards short of the Swilken Bridge

Wayne:

I thought we were talking about views off the golf course, and one reason I picked 17 at National is precisely because its beauty doesn't rely on wispy grasses around bunkers.  I think that is one of the best placements of tee and green I have ever seen, getting you to look right on down the sweeping shoreline of Peconic Bay.

7th green at MPCC's Shore.
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Bob  

It has been awhile since I posted a photo, but can someone help me with the picture posting command again?  Was it [img]photolink[img] or ,<>?

"Wayne:

I thought we were talking about views off the golf course, and one reason I picked 17 at National is precisely because its beauty doesn't rely on wispy grasses around bunkers.  I think that is one of the best placements of tee and green I have ever seen, getting you to look right on down the sweeping shoreline of Peconic Bay."

Interesting point, Tom.  Is that something you have tried to replicate at other seaside courses?  Did you have an opportunity to situate tee(s) and green(s) at Sebonack with similar results?

Next time I'll try and look at the 17th in that way---and others as well.  I still don't like the hole though  

Merry Christmas and a happy and successful New Year!

In Reply Number 67 above, it shows, albeit but briefly, what Rees Jones can do when at the top of his game. He abandoned a very nondescript par three some forty to fifty yards away from the shoreline and built the green at waters edge. In addition, he set the back tee down between some rock outcroppings to make for a dazzling 180 yard shot into, what at times, can be an interesting wind.


Eric was visiting and we played the Shore. Wanting to show him parts of the Dunes before darkness we played No 10, drove through 11, 12 and 13.  At 14, I teed off first and hit a weak shot, short and right, Eric hit his best shot of the day to a couple of feet for an easy birdie. He left the course a happy man.

Bob

Opening tee shot at Portstewart, Northern Ireland

18th Tee at Kapalua, Hawaii

Almost any hole at Old Head

Tee shot at Calamity, Royal Portrush

1st/10th tee at San Francisco GC.  Nothing but golf in front of you.  Same with 1st/8th tee at Prairie Dunes, already mentioned.

From my experiences-
16th tee Cape Kidnappers.  Just unbelieveable.

10th tee at      "      Dunes
14th green at   "         "

Bob  

Merry Xmas Bob

you commented earlier that 'in Reply Number 67 above, it shows, albeit but briefly, what Rees Jones can do when at the top of his game. He abandoned a very nondescript par three some forty to fifty yards away from the shoreline and built the green at waters edge. In addition, he set the back tee down between some rock outcroppings to make for a dazzling 180 yard shot into, what at times, can be an interesting wind.'

Here is a picture of #14 from the back tee, and also looking back to the tee.  And this hole is viewable to anybody driving around Monterey.  It is right next to a car-park.





And then there is #10 - absolutely picture post-card stuff.  And it appears that it has always been that way.  I have included a photo from George Thomas Jr's Golf Architecture in America, whic I assume is perhaps 80 years ago or thereabouts.  Looks like Rees Jones didn't change much here.  So, a before and after.





James B

The first tee at Merion offers a marvelous view with its 13 beautiful bunkers, huge but in scale while the whole experience is enhanced by the sudden silence of the diners on the upper terrace as you know they are watching your every move.  It makes one glad to be right handed (sorry Mike C).  Also the view from the fairway through the quarry on 16 during spring with the Scotch Broom in golden bloom.

Wayne,

Actually, I was very fortunate to be left-handed the first time I played Merion East.

There were a number of people dining on the patio, and here I was, faced with the promise of playing a course I had only dreamed about for about 30 years.   To say I was nervous would be an understatement of tremendous proportions.

I also happened to be in the company of the Emperor, redanman, and Mr. Dow, two of whom I was meeting for the first time.

In some type of hazy, trembling blur, I somehow got the ball on a tee and then got the club back to about knee high on my backswing.   I hit the ball so far on the heel that it squirted dead right about head high and screamed out there into the right rough about 120 yards.  

Why am I thankful I'm lefthanded?

Simply because that exact same shot played from the other side of the ball would have surely taken out several of the diners, and ensured that I would have never returned, even after the stint in prison for manslaughter.