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JESII

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #50 on: September 27, 2007, 03:00:45 PM »
Jim,

Perhaps the tiebreaker versus #6 at NGLA is that there really is nowhere you can comfortably "MISS" the green and make a par...as illustrated by your post a day or two ago about your first playing...
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Tom Huckaby

Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #51 on: September 27, 2007, 03:02:23 PM »
Quote from: Shivas Schmidt on September 27, 2007, 02:47:30 PM
I aimed at the front right corner fringe, figuring that any sort of tug long or left was a sure 3 whack

Perhaps if you didn't use such wacky putting methods, you'd have more confidence in your putting and wouldn't have to intentionally aim for fringes.

Tom "in my one play of NGLA, pulled it wildly to left side of 6, only to calmly two-putt to the far right pin, ho-hum, what's the big deal about this green" Huckaby

 ;D ;D
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Norbert P

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #52 on: September 27, 2007, 03:07:09 PM »


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Michael J. Moss

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #53 on: September 27, 2007, 03:29:11 PM »
Sand Hills: #17 (but not sure it actually exists; could be a mirage!)
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Jim Franklin

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #54 on: September 27, 2007, 03:36:29 PM »
Quote from: JES II on September 27, 2007, 03:00:45 PM
Jim,

Perhaps the tiebreaker versus #6 at NGLA is that there really is nowhere you can comfortably "MISS" the green and make a par...as illustrated by your post a day or two ago about your first playing...

Truer words have not been written. You do not want to miss this green left, right, long or short. And we certainly don't need to bring my first go round up again. I like to remember my most recent one ;D.
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Rob_Waldron

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #55 on: September 27, 2007, 03:37:23 PM »
Yale GC #9 Biarritz
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ed_getka

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #56 on: September 27, 2007, 03:56:02 PM »
Rob,
   If you want to see a great Biarritz, get over to Angels Crossing in Michigan some day. Jim Thompson took the Biarritz to a whole new level there.
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Marty Bonnar

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #57 on: September 27, 2007, 05:30:31 PM »
Both of mine are on TOC. I have tried REALLY hard to separate them, but in my heart of hearts I love them both equally. One is Nick Nolte, one is the other guy...

Just thinking about the approach shots to 2/16 is getting me high. WHAT a green complex...! Limitless interest, boundless fun, a study in itself.

BUT...

7/11. Hubbahubbahubba...

The view, those CONTOURS :o, the FUN!!!

Two/Four greens which for me epitomise why golf course architecture is, at the very least, worthy of intelligent debate.

FBD.
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JESII

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #58 on: September 27, 2007, 05:33:35 PM »
Quote from: Martin Glynn Bonnar on September 27, 2007, 05:30:31 PM

Two/Four greens which for me epitomise why golf course architecture is, at the very least, worthy of intelligent debate.

FBD.


Can you recommend any good places to find that?
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Bill_McBride

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #59 on: September 27, 2007, 05:41:32 PM »
NGLA #1 and #16
The Old Course #7/11, and #18 for the Valley of Sin!
Cypress Point #9
Cuscowilla #5!!
Pacific Dunes #6!!
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wsmorrison

Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #60 on: September 27, 2007, 05:44:17 PM »
Not surprisingly, most greens mentioned have a lot of internal contouring.  I think that several greens on a course with a lot of contouring is all that is necessary.  Subtle interplays of slope are a lot more interesting to me.

17 at NGLA, from tee to green, is my least favorite hole on the course.

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Marty Bonnar

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #61 on: September 27, 2007, 05:47:14 PM »
J,
I hear there's a bar somewhere in Philly...

Apparently, there's a guy in the third booth on the left, who will - for the price of a micro-brewed Ale - happily give you a 30-minute discourse on the relative merits of the contouring of the Redan at NGLA vs. the maintenence meld problems caused by the tree-infestations of the Eastern seaboards finest venues. ;)

Call 555-9834 and ask for 'Wigwam'. (I believe his real initials bear some relation to his nom-de-guerre....)

 ;D
FBD.
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Kalen Braley

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #62 on: September 27, 2007, 08:08:10 PM »
I'm going with the practice green at Pac Dunes.

Build a course with 18 greens like that, and you'll be 3 putting a helluva lot more than 2 putting...
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mark chalfant

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #63 on: September 27, 2007, 09:34:53 PM »
NGLA    #6

Prairie Dunes   #17

Shady  Oaks ( RTJ)    5  and  16

Pasatiempo  #5

NCR !!       2,6,10

Boston Golf Club (Hanse)  has some  fine  greens




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Bill Gayne

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #64 on: September 27, 2007, 10:02:13 PM »
I'll repeat the Road hole. The best green without bunkers: 14th at ANGC. Best par three green: 16th at ANGC with a second to #6 at Portrush.
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David_Madison

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #65 on: September 28, 2007, 06:34:33 AM »
NGLA #1 is the neatest. #1 at Alpine says "Welcome to putting Hell" better than anything I've ever seen.
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Paul_Turner

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #66 on: September 28, 2007, 09:57:45 AM »
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Doug Wright

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #67 on: September 28, 2007, 10:16:22 AM »
ANGC #14
Pacific Dunes #8
The Redan at N. Berwick for historical purposes...
#16 Black Mesa
« Last Edit: September 28, 2007, 10:17:32 AM by Doug Wright »
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mark chalfant

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #68 on: September 28, 2007, 03:00:19 PM »
Paul:

Thats  a beauty, did Wiliam Flynn design it ?
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Matthew Hunt

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #69 on: September 29, 2007, 08:04:32 AM »
RCD 7
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David Stamm

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #70 on: September 29, 2007, 12:42:11 PM »
Tim named one of mine already with the 6th at Riviera. Here's a few more...


8th at Pasatiempo
14th at LACC North
16th at Colonial
15 and 16 at Riviera (hell, they're all great!)
13 and 14 at Pebble Beach
16th at Rancho Santa Fe
There are so many at Stone Eagle, I can't pick just one
10 and 13 at Pauma Valley
4th at Spyglass (I think it's daring)

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Jon Spaulding

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #71 on: September 29, 2007, 12:53:07 PM »
I was recently impressed by the 8th at Yale; given the demands of the approach combined with the bold contour on the RH side and the overall slope.





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Marty Bonnar

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #72 on: September 29, 2007, 03:18:15 PM »
Quote from: mark chalfant on September 28, 2007, 03:00:19 PM
Paul:

Thats  a beauty, did Wiliam Flynn design it ?

Mark,
not even close.
My third favourite green at this venue.... ;)

FBD.
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John_Cullum

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #73 on: September 29, 2007, 08:08:52 PM »
14 at Augusta NAt
16 at Augusta Nat
7/11 at The Old Course
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JNC Lyon

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Re:World's Best Green?
« Reply #74 on: September 30, 2007, 03:01:05 AM »
My fave from a few courses I've played:

18 at the Country Club
12 at St. George's
3 at the Ocean Course
15 at the Country Club of Rochester
11 at Oak Hollow
18 at Monroe
4 at Oak Hill (West)
10 at Oak Hill (East)
15 at Teugega
6 at the Country Club of Buffalo
8 at Mill Creek
7 at Cobblestone Creek
5 at the Orchards
12 at Hanover Country Club
7 at Canterbury Woods
16 at Brook Lea
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