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Paul_Turner

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Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« on: January 04, 2005, 04:48:45 PM »
A few cool courses near Paris and here's a taster:

Thank you very much to Frank Pont for sending me these pics.  The courses are Fontainbleau and St Germain, one by Simpson and one by Colt.  Try and guess which without a right click.

Some Unique holes!


A touch of Merion and the quarry hole?





















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David_Tepper

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2005, 05:02:57 PM »
Paul-

Great pix - you have done it again! I really like the 3rd picture down. It looks like a shortish par-4.

DT  

Sean_A

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2005, 05:15:19 PM »
Paul

I don't have a clue.  I would guess the course with eyebrows around the bunkers is Fontainbleau by Simpson.

Ciao

Sean
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T_MacWood

Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2005, 05:37:45 PM »
Paul
TRES MAGNIFIQUE!

Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2005, 07:24:20 PM »
Paul,

Magnifique ! Vous ne pouvez pas savoir beaucoup de M. Boum, ;) mais vous certainement savez où aller et comment prendre des images. Vous méritez de l'Ordre de GCA de Mérite pour cette raison seul !

J'aime toutes les images et ce serais un temps dur décidant si j'ai voulu boire le vin ou le golf.

Je ne déteste pas le français ou. En fait, je pense qu'ils ont nous a marqués ! Nous sommes une nation d'hypocrites !


Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2005, 07:26:45 PM »
Oh, and my guesses!

1-Simpson
2-Colt
3-Simpson
4-Colt
5-Colt

MORE! WE WANT MORE!

Tiger_Bernhardt

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2005, 10:31:27 PM »
Paul, As always thank you very much.

SPDB

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2005, 12:37:36 AM »
Paul - I'm guessing (helped along by Links Mag's profile
of St. Germain) that the first three are Colt. The bunker
surrounds of the latter 3 are markedly different.

BTW - The fact that this course was profiled in Links Mag
(in the same issue, I believe, as Myopia) indicates that things
have taken a very positive turn for the better at the mag.

Paul_Turner

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2005, 09:02:14 AM »
Yes you are right.  First 3 S Germain (Colt), next 3 Fontainbleau(Simpson).

Tommy

Very good!  My French is useless.  It was the only o'level I failed at school.  But I still got the gist.  M. Bang?
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NAF

Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2005, 09:48:42 AM »
Oh LA LA

Paul- I guess we have to add these twins to our Simpson/Colt tour through the low country in a few months..

Paul_Turner

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2005, 01:29:20 PM »
Just added a lot more.  But not really in proper order (within a course's set) so could be confusing if you ever do get to play these 2.

Sometimes, I'm hesitant to post pics, it does spoil the surprise somewhat.  But since only a few GCAers are likely to make the trip...
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Mark_Rowlinson

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2005, 01:45:13 PM »
Brilliant!  Just from my own very scant experience I can say that there is a lot of quality golf going fairly unrecognised on the continent.  It mostly stems from the fact that these older courses were very much the preserve of the wealthy and they kept these places very much to themselves.  They kept it that way - in Belgium, for instance, there were about a dozen courses from the Golden Age until the mid 60s when Trent Jones built Bercuit.  It was the same thing in France with a handful of really good courses around Paris and on the Channel Coast, and one or two (lesser) courses in the south-west and on the Riviera.  I think it was St Nom-la-Breteche which started the new wave (1959), though that, too, is pretty private.  The real expansion came when the EC ploughed money into agricultural land to take it out of agriculture.  Loads of French farmers turned their land into golf courses and such was the level of assistance they got that few of them seem to need to attract visitors or members.  Of course it's different in holiday resorts, but get off the beaten track and you can walk onto almost any course and have the place pretty well to yourself.  

My wife are planning to take the car and clubs over to Denmark in August.  We'll be able to walk out onto Esbjerg, Holstebro, Silkeborg and others without the slightest problem and we'll not have to pay a fortune to do so, either.  happily we can stay with friends which means we won't be faced with typically horrendous hotel room rates.

Dan Kelly

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2005, 01:52:23 PM »
Tommy N --

Ne buvez pas le golf!

Une question: Quelle nation n'est pas une nation des hypocrites?
"There's no money in doing less." -- Joe Hancock, 11/25/2010
"Rankings are silly and subjective..." -- Tom Doak, 3/12/2016

Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2005, 02:40:07 PM »
Dan,
je ne boirai pas le golf à moins que c'est un beau millésime de golf dans la gamme d'un sexy petit 1986 Caberbet Sauvignon de Miems.

Oui, nous sommes tout hyprocrites, nous tous. Surtout ces nations qui choisissent cacher derrière leurs inconvenances de gain personnel. Ceci est pourquoi je veux bombarder le Canada le plus tôt possible. Les Canadiens nous détestent et son mieux les obtenir avant qu'ils nous obtiennent. Etre que votre pas loin de la frontière, je compterai sur vous contrôler le Nord. Je les tous contrôlerai dans Baja, où ils sont wintering.


Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2005, 02:43:34 PM »
Paul,
Could you descirbe this hole for me?

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Dan Kelly

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2005, 02:53:05 PM »
Le Général Naccarato -- sans hockey pour les amuser, les Canadiens sont les plus agités.
Je serai sur la surveillance, au nord -- et j'enverrai des rapports, selon les besoins.

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Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2005, 03:06:12 PM »
Très bon, je m'occuperai du Sud. Pendant ce temps nous devons envoyer des troupes au flanc, que nous appellerons Colombie Britannique. Là-bas ils attendront nos instructions pour attaquer Saskatchwan.

Le seul bon Canadien est un Canadien mort, et une déclaration beaucoup de comme ceci l'un m'a obtenu dans l'ennui la semaine dernière avec Hamm de Falaise. J'ai demandé pardon et l'ai dit que je ne pourrait pas le garantir n'arriverait pas encore, et ici juste un simple peu de jours plus tard, --viola! Il est arrivé encore.

Laisse obtenir maintenant en bas à quelques vraies affaires me passe certains de ce fromage et je nous verserai quelque vin. ...........


Paul_Turner

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2005, 03:23:11 PM »
Paul,
Could you descirbe this hole for me?



Tommy

It's the 17th a par 3 at SG, the line of play is from the left along the apex of the triangular green.  From the tee, it's over som broken ground which is filled with broom and bracken.

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Dan Kelly

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2005, 03:24:19 PM »
Ce serait un grand nom de bande: Les Canadiens Morts.
"There's no money in doing less." -- Joe Hancock, 11/25/2010
"Rankings are silly and subjective..." -- Tom Doak, 3/12/2016

Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2005, 03:39:40 PM »
Paul, It looks to be very much in the same verve as Death or Glory at Northwood. I was wondering if that depression was maybe even sand at once, but looking at the 2nd picture you can see that just didn't happen there. What a great shot though! Looks like a lot of fun and still sort of the same thinking of make it over or die.

Dan,
Oui, il ferait ! Peut-être même ajouter là dedans, « le Coup de fouet de Snidley et les Canadiens Morts présentant Nell sur vocal. .."

Philippe Binette

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2005, 04:04:45 PM »
Comment, les Canadiens morts...

En passant, parlez-vous vraiment français ou faites-vous seulement traduire vos textes par un logiciel informatique?

Car il y a beaucoup de fautes de synthaxe dans vos textes, messieurs.

Les commentaires sur le Canada ne sont pas appropriés.
J'habite Montréal et nous ne sommes pas des hypocrites, nous sommes honnêtes en disant ce qui nous passe par la tête.

Question: tentez de traduire tee box et fairway en français...


Dan Kelly

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Re:Gourmet Golf-Paris Style (more pics)
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2005, 04:14:32 PM »
... il y a beaucoup de fautes de synthaxe dans vos textes, messieurs.

Dites qu'it ain't so, Joe! Ou Philippe!

"There's no money in doing less." -- Joe Hancock, 11/25/2010
"Rankings are silly and subjective..." -- Tom Doak, 3/12/2016