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Paul_Turner

Early Heathland Pics
« on: February 24, 2003, 05:47:14 PM »
Some fine pics of how the heath courses should look.  Needless to say, they're not quite as rugged now.

Parkstone a Park Jr (1909) and Braid design (1934).











And for good measure, one from Colt's Meyrick Park, a nearby muni.





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Jim_Kennedy

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Re: Early Heathland Pics
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2003, 07:08:31 PM »
Paul,
Look at all those intrusive footpaths! They are as bad as cartpaths. Something should be done about them!  ;D

Seriously,
Great photos. Perilous looking terrain. some of the prettiest stuff on earth.
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Fred_C.

Re: Early Heathland Pics
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2003, 04:32:01 AM »
Well done, Paul.  Thanks for the photos!

Where in England (I presume) are the courses located?

Yours,

Fred
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Tom MacWood (Guest)

Re: Early Heathland Pics
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2003, 06:39:41 AM »
Paul
Good stuff. It is fascinating to look at the real early work - I especially like the view from the 16th tee and of course the 12th at Meyrick Park.
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Paul Turner

Re: Early Heathland Pics
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2003, 07:29:13 AM »
Fred

Good to meet you at the USGA.  

Both courses are from the Bournemouth (Dorset) area on Englands south coast.  It's one of the most attractive areas of the country.  The best heath courses from the area are:

Broadstone, Ferndown, Parkstone, Isle of Purbeck, and I'm curious about some lesser known, small heath courses in the region like: Wareham and Bursley.

Hayling is supposed to be a very interesting links in the area with a famous hole called the Widow.

The Isle of Wight might have one very good course at Shanklin and Sandown.
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Paul Turner

Re: Early Heathland Pics
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2003, 07:36:03 AM »
Tom

I'm almost convinced from photos that Meyrick Park would be one of the very best municipal courses in the country, if it was kept in its raw state.

You can easily see from that Parkstone pic, why Pine Valley is likened to the early heath courses.
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redanman

Re: Early Heathland Pics
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2003, 08:10:23 AM »
Parkstone #7 appears to be a long-lost twin of PVGC #5 and
16 is a bit of a variation of PVGC #13 in a way, or perhaps more closely Spyglass #3.  As usual, nice work, Paul.

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Michael Dugger

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Re: Early Heathland Pics
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2003, 10:59:26 AM »
LOve to see what they look like today ;)
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Gene Greco

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Re: Early Heathland Pics
« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2003, 02:54:37 PM »
Paul:

    Jolly good stuff, mate.

I too would love to see what they look like today.

(Sent you an email)
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Jeff_Lewis

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Re: Early Heathland Pics
« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2003, 03:49:59 PM »
The punchline is these are actually pictures of Hidden Creek ;)
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Andy Levett (Guest)

Re: Early Heathland Pics
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2003, 04:41:34 AM »
I too was curious how the courses looked now. I found this twin of Paul's first pic with an image search on Google.




At some stage the growth in the foreground got too much and they took it out but if you look closely just to the right of the golfers in the modern pic there's a spindly little new sapling!
 You've got to laugh.
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