[Garland Bayley]

#5 green; Home Course, Dupont WA.

Potato Chip on Steroids

You either knock it stiff to a back pin on #5, or you are in a bunker!

[Bradley Anderson]

The tees at Sebonack.

[Mike Hendren]

Taylor,

I was just going to ask if anyone had any pics of Mike's "experiments" on the 12th at Long Shadow.  Those are very cool!  Sadly, those are only the second most original thing I saw at Long Shadow, as I have never seen anything like Mike Hendren's follow though !

Cheers!

JT

Jimbo,  I'll have you know I've been working on my flexibility and now can get the club knee-high on my follow through. The result is that I've picked up an additional two to three feet with my irons.

BTW I was in Grand Rapids briefly on Wednesday.  Have a great winter.

Mike  

[Jim_Kennedy]

This:

[Steve Lapper]

Geoff Childs golf swing!

[Scott Szabo]

Some of the greens at Ballyneal.

#8 immediately comes to mind

[Michael Dugger]

Of the courses I've played recently, I thought the following was unique:

The lava tube hole at Pronghorn
Doak's 9th hole at Pacific Dunes, the infamous wall of grass
Hixson's par 3 11th hole at Bandon Crossings
The fairway hump on #6 at Harbottle's Juniper GC

[Lloyd_Cole]

This:

Jim

Was it fun to play?

[Kyle Henderson]

This:

Is that from 'Tron' by any chance?

[Kyle Harris]

I've determined that the best name for the features I described at Long Shadow are "off ramps"

[Jim Thompson]

Mike,

Did Bradbury give you stretches?    Hey next time you're in these parts the bourbon is on me.  Give me a call.

Cheers!

JT

[Patrick_Mucci]

I ask because I think that's what is important in design, but I certainly recognize that a lot of design is derivative.

I think I'd have to say revetted bunker faces in South Florida.

I like the punitive nature of steep faced bunkers and these are about as steep as you can get.

I was surprised to see them in South Florida due to the sandy nature of the soil, but, they work quite well at The Medalist.

I'd be curious to find out more about their maintainance and viability in that area.

[John Shimp]

I played Kelly Blake Moran's  Laurel Links a couple of months ago and noticed that on a lot of dogleg holes the preferred line to hold the fairway or be in Position A was close into the dogleg or even right over a bunker.  On several holes I'd play straight away (or to the safe side away from the corner and maybe some sort of hazard) and find out that I'd run out of room.  If you hit the right line or close to it there was usually plenty of room, it just wasn't obvious what the right line was from the tee box.  The course was a lot of fun in other ways too but it was the first course I'd seen in awhile where you had to think a bit more about tee shot line.  I wish I could site hole numbers comfortably to provide examples but don't have the card and only played once.

[Gary Slatter]

The 2007 Ladies Champion on the Himalayas putting course in a recent BBC show sure looks like an original!  In fact, is the putting course the original?  Why aren't ther more?

[Jeff_Mingay]

Gary,

Plan is to create a putting course inspired by the Himalayas at Sagebrush.

[Matt MacIver]

How about the second at Bandon Trails?  The diaganol use of the dune as a hazard, partially hiding the green, downhill to challange club selection, was new to me.  

[Adam Sherer]

I have always argued that, in terms of rock n' roll music, nothing is truly original after bands like the Beatles, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones, etc. Meaning.....that when contemporary bands think they have created something original, it is really just an amalgamation of something that has already been done by those preceding bands.

To be truly original in rock n' roll is nearly impossible and that is why there are not many interesting rock bands today.

As far as golf goes, it is largely the same: best case example being......

I have always thought that the influence of human civilization within a golf course (ie fences, roads, stone walls) are interesting and make the game feel like it is still "playing through the rough." Certain new courses incorporate these elements.  However, if you were to design a hole that plays over an ancient stone wall to an obscured green (and there hadn't already been a #13 at N. Berwick) it would probably look "really original".


Are there really original ideas left in golf? certainly!

Did Nirvana sound "original"? Yes!



 

[David_Madison]

The teeing areas at Sebonack; the haunted bridge at Sleepy Hollow.

[Willie_Dow]

Patrick

Why would this be so unoriginal ?  Certainly revetted bunkers were very common on the links on Scotland, which are somewhat familar to our sandhills of Florida.

More of this should be around here !

Willie

[Dieter Jones]

Joondalup Quarry nine in Western Australia- 4th. I particularly liked the rock face that runs the full 70m length of the bunker, below the fairway (about 15 feet high). Makes for a scary bunker shot up near the green as anything thin is likely to bounce back into any number of body parts. Pictures of Brett Ogle kneecapping himself at the Aussie open in the early 90's off a tree come to mind when attempting that little recovery.

[JESII]

I ask because I think that's what is important in design, but I certainly recognize that a lot of design is derivative.

I am goint to take a flier here and challenge this assertion Tom.

You've got the experience in the field and with results so tell me why originality is more important than really well conceived derivations.

Of yours, I have only played the two Stonewall courses. The use of the wall on the North Course was pretty cool I thought, but I don't know if you would consider that original...

[Kalen Braley]

I have always argued that, in terms of rock n' roll music, nothing is truly original after bands like the Beatles, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones, etc. Meaning.....that when contemporary bands think they have created something original, it is really just an amalgamation of something that has already been done by those preceding bands.

To be truly original in rock n' roll is nearly impossible and that is why there are not many interesting rock bands today.

Did Nirvana sound "original"? Yes!
 

I'm curious which of the above mentioned groups you think Nine Inch Nails copied??

[Michael Powers]

The 6th at Boston Golf Club, par 3 over a huge waste bunker with scrub pines still growing in it.  The green is like a reverse Redan which slopes from front left to back right.  One original, outstanding one shotter.

[Garland Bayley]

Incorporating the huge piles of black mining slag into Old Works and also using in the bunkers and waste areas.

[Dan Herrmann]

Titleist the bull at Bulls Bay in SC.

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