[A_Clay_Man]

an Oil Refinery?

I may be a bit biased, but the best course that I have found, that has an Oil refinery within close proximity is....

My home Course, Riverview in Kirtland, New Mexico



Looking back up the 11th hole. A tumbling downhill Par 5 that uses Shiprock, some 24 miles away as an aiming rock. The teeing ground in the foreground is the 12th, a 206 yard downhill one shotter. There is an alternate tee, providing the only real drop shot in the county. The next closest is a two hour drive to Monticello, Ut.

[A_Clay_Man]

This is the tenth green site. Taken from the left side approx. 90 yards out.




This Baxter Spann design is without question the best nine holes in the area.

[Bill_McBride]

Steve Lang (Houston) and John Bernhardt (Lafayette La) may be the other GCAers most likely to participate in this thread.  

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Seaton Carew?

[Ken Fry]

How about near an oil refinery (actually more than one) and built on an old landfill?

Harborside on the south side of Chicago.  Dick Nugent 36 hole facility.  Heavy winds affect play.  Pretty solid facility given its location.

[RJ_Daley]

While not a refinery, how about Kingsley Club in Michigan

I think the property or just off the property has oil wells... though well hidden or defunct operations.

[Travis Ripley]

Ponca City CC in Ponca City, OK.  Conoco refinery pretty nearby (close enough to smell).  a very good small city Club course.  not too long, but very hilly.  elevated tees and sloping greens typical of the original Perry Maxwell design, 1929.   Palmer/Sechrist re-design.

 

[A_Clay_Man]

Keep the examples coming.  Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. This refinery is actually adjacent to the course. In such close proximity that ones ball could be tugged there, on the third tee.  Here's the aforementioned Shiprock.



From a better photographer;

[Travis Ripley]

adam, those are totally cool pics.  looks like a great course.  i live in Colorado, where is Kirtland?  guessing the NW part of the state?

 

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