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Sebonac

The Bridge
« on: May 10, 2002, 07:14:34 AM »
Has anyone had the pleasure of testing out The Bridge yet....this is the new course in Bridgehampton, L.I. that some are already saying could host a US Open....
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Doug Wright

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Re: The Bridge
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2002, 07:42:03 AM »
Yikes! A few months ago a thread by this very name engendered some of the longest and most acrimonious dialogue in the history of GCA.  :o The thread must have been  300 posts long. I don't even remember what it was all about but those who were in the middle of it do!

Maybe somebody more adept at retrieving things from the archives can find it and bring it up.

All The Best,
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Dan Kelly

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Re: The Bridge
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2002, 07:58:43 AM »
Doug --

One word: mounds (9th green).

Two words: Rees Jones.

Three words: Leave thread dead!

Four words: Matt Ward loves Bridge.

Five words: Where's that darned maintenance shed?

Six words: Other pictures looked much more promising.
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Doug Wright

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Re: The Bridge
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2002, 08:06:10 AM »
Dan,

Oh, NOW I remember. Guess you were one of the
pro/an- tagonists.

OK with me to "leave thread dead,"  :)

All The Best,
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Sebonac

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2002, 10:17:42 AM »
Please don't kill the thread...I am interested in hearing specifics about the course....
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Keith Williams

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Re: The Bridge
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2002, 10:20:44 AM »
Don't say anyone didn't warn you....

Paging Matt Ward and Patrick Mucci...

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Tom MacWood (Guest)

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2002, 10:42:13 AM »
Sebonac
Unfortunately I have not play the course, so I can't help you. But if you could post some pictures I'd be glad to give you my thoughts.
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Rich Goodale (Guest)

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2002, 11:08:29 AM »
Will SOMEONE please find and point Sebonac to one of the many "Bridge" threads?  He (she?) seems like an honest person and deserves more than sarcasm.

Rich

PS--I've tried to find these threads using the new and improved GCA search "engine" but, like all previous models, it is a lemon..........
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Re: The Bridge
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Re: The Bridge
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Scott_Burroughs

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Re: The Bridge
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2002, 11:16:05 AM »
I too had searched recently for the infamous "The Bridge" thread, but couldn't find it either.  It probably was deleted.  At least 3 AOTD threads NLE, so nothing lasts forever.
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TEPaul

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2002, 11:19:02 AM »
The Bridge? Where's that? Who designed that one? Never heard of it!

If it's one of the new Coore and Crenshaw ones I haven't seen though, two thumbs up anyway. However, if it was designed by someone like Rees, show me some photos of it and I'll give you a comprehensive analysis.
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Sebonac

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2002, 11:42:58 AM »
One link above led did not work...and the other took me to a discussion on Nantucket Golf Club....Does that one lead to The Bridge?
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Rich Goodale (Guest)

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2002, 11:46:57 AM »
Sebonac

People are playing with you, and it demeans them, not you.

If I could find the link and post it I would, but the search engines on this site suck, and always have.  Gives a lot of people leeway to post the same old thing over and over again, as on the previous "Bridge" threads...... ::)

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Tom MacWood (Guest)

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2002, 12:00:50 PM »
Sebonic
No one is playing with you. I think that link to the Nantucket thread was an honest attempt by someone who was not aware of the original Bridge thread. Unfortunately that thread does not exist. When GCA went to a new format the old thread were lost and The Bridge was one of them.

Rich
Actually it is easier to search for an old thread than it was previously. If you wanted to search for The Bridge thread you could simply look back at Paul Turner's posts (he started I believe, nice going Paul).
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Paul_Turner

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2002, 12:04:23 PM »
I posted the pics that started the infamous Bridge thread.

But I think it was before the server/website switch and can't
currently be accessed until those old threads are added into the archives.

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John Foley

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Re: The Bridge
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2002, 12:07:42 PM »
I seem to remeber that The Bridge was removed once the dialouge got way too confrontational & personal. The participants were very passionate and we can all understand how things can get out of control quickly. However there was some good in the postings, especially to those of us who want to learn more. Any chance it's archived off the DG which we can either get acces to via email or re-posted?

Oh Ran?
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TEPaul

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2002, 12:13:57 PM »
What the hell is going on at Golfclubatlas these days?

Half of what's said recently seems to demean, insult, embarrass or offend someone! Do good architectural analysts really have skins as thin as a polymer? Hurt feelings are getting as common as bogies around here!

How are we ever going to have decent discussions about architecture and it's architects if we can't say critical things and maybe even try to use some humor (even if it's poor to middling) to moderate it if there's always going to be all these hurt feelings and admonishments of bias and such?

We should take a few pages out of the books and articles of some of our favorites like A.W. Tillinghast and C.B. MacDonald and learn from them! They could write wonderful criticisms and deal with the criticisms of others just fine and go on about their business without bleeding all over the place.

I think we ought to toughen up some of our criticisms, and back them up with what we really feel and why and take the same from others about some of our opinions on architecture and its architects.

Maybe we all might feel some minor slings and arrows now and again, but it shouldn't make us bleed.
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TEPaul

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2002, 12:28:11 PM »
Fellows, I don't really know where that last post came from. I guess when I read Rich's remark about how this thread is really demeaning to all of us for not answering Sebonac immediately.

Sorry Sebonac, no reason not to get back into an analysis of the Bridge--but if we haven't played it none of us are  supposed to comment about it at all, and photos are taboo! Also would you mind if we bypassed that ugly containment mounding that's hiding The Bridge's temporary maintenance facility?

I could delete these two posts, I guess, but what the heck..

For starters The Bridge does have some otherworldly views and some extremely fascinating downhill elevation changes for golf, I'm sure, but as to how the architecture actually plays, dunno, maybe someday I'll play it.
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Rick Shefchik

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Re: The Bridge
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2002, 12:39:37 PM »
Tom:

You'll play the Bridge someday only if you don't prejudge it. Otherwise, I believe you'll be shown the gate.

(There -- have we now covered all the significant references and most poignant phrases from the original Bridge thread?)


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Dan Kelly

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Re: The Bridge
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2002, 03:17:07 PM »
Rick --

"Shown the gate"!

I'd forgotten all about "shown the gate"!

I'm getting misty, just thinking about those old times.
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Rich Goodale (Guest)

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2002, 03:52:46 PM »
Tom P, Dan K et. al.

Sorry for that "demean" comment.  It demeaned me.  I would delete it if I were a "member."

I was just trying to get one of us to help "Sebonac" see what great wisdom many of us had already expressed vis a vis the Bridge, in the hope that he might be able to raise the level of debate on that issue just a little bit higher......

Apologies all around :-[
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TEPaul

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2002, 05:07:28 PM »
Rich:

I'm sorry if my post demeaned you for suggesting that all these posts were demeaning all of us but I don't feel you demeaned yourself at all by mentioning that we weren't really demeaning Sebonac but we were actually demeaning ourselves by.......oops, I guess I've already been there!
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Patrick_Mucci

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2002, 08:14:40 PM »
Sebonic,

I haven't played The Bridge, but intend to very shortly.
As soon as I do, I'll give you a report.
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Tom MacWood (Guest)

Re: The Bridge
« Reply #24 on: May 11, 2002, 10:18:19 AM »
Sebonic
What is your opinion of the course? Even after that massive thread of a few months ago, I don't have a real good idea of what the course is like. I do know it has excellent views.
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