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Joel_Stewart

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Re: Greatest golf course in a forest setting
« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2008, 12:15:11 AM »
Quote from: Ronald Montesano on July 11, 2008, 09:44:28 PM
Wade Hampton in Cashiers, N.C.?

I know I am beating a dead horse because I wrote a piece about the new Fazio course in Lake Tahoe called Martis Camp but IMHO its better than Wade Hampton.

Jed:  Olympic is built on a sand dune, the Lake is almost all tree lined from trees being planted there in the last 80 years.  Whitings vision was for the Lake to be tree lined and the Ocean course to be wind swept and open.  They have lost that vision but hopefully someone / someday will figure it out.
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cary lichtenstein

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Re: Greatest golf course in a forest setting
« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2008, 01:17:45 PM »
Spyglass
Mountain Top
Wade Hampton
Highland Links, Cape Breton Nova Scotia
Banff

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Live Jupiter, Fl, was  4 handicap, played top 100 US, top 75 World. Great memories, no longer play, 4 back surgeries. I don't miss a lot of things about golf, life is simpler with out it. I miss my 60 degree wedge shots, don't miss nasty weather, icing, back spasms. Last course I played was Augusta

Wade Whitehead

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Re: Greatest golf course in a forest setting
« Reply #27 on: July 12, 2008, 03:07:56 PM »
Primland was carved from a mountaintop forest.

WW
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Ken McGlynn

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Re: Greatest golf course in a forest setting
« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2008, 12:44:35 AM »
Quote from: Tom_Doak on July 10, 2008, 07:34:14 AM
Philippe:

They had to dynamite trees out of the way at Winged Foot, so you can start there.  Not sure it was a "forest" but it was definitely wooded.  Muirfield Village was also wooded.  SFGC and Sunningdale were not.

I'll vote for Swinley Forest because it has the forest right in the name.

The best job of clearing I've seen on a modern golf course is at Cuscowilla.

To piggyback on Mr. Doak, I thoroughly enjoyed visting Royal  Ashdown Forest in East Sussex years ago. Classic UK golf!
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Kevin Pallier

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Re: Greatest golf course in a forest setting
« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2008, 02:32:23 AM »
As a collection - I'd say the three at Woburn are pretty good.
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Mark Pearce

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Re: Greatest golf course in a forest setting
« Reply #30 on: July 13, 2008, 05:13:40 PM »
Quote from: mark chalfant on July 11, 2008, 11:19:45 PM
Salem, an excellent  Ross design c. 1926, is one I regard highly. Would St.
Germain, Berkshire, or Fountainbleu  merit consideration...
When I played at the Berkshire three weeks ago there were a number of old photos of the course on display.  I suspect they were recently discovered and taken soon after the courses opened.  What struck me was the almost complete absence of trees.  I don't know whether there had been a massive removal of trees or (more likely) if the land wasn't heavily wooded when the courses were built.
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In June I will be riding the first three stages of this year's Tour de France route for charity.  630km (394 miles) in three days, with 7800m (25,600 feet) of climbing for the William Wates Memorial Trust (https://rideleloop.org/the-charity/) which supports underprivileged young people.

Bart Bradley

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Re: Greatest golf course in a forest setting
« Reply #31 on: July 13, 2008, 08:04:21 PM »
Grandfather Golf and Country Club.  But I am a homer ;).

Bart
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Andy Hodson

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Re: Greatest golf course in a forest setting
« Reply #32 on: July 19, 2008, 01:43:24 AM »
Bart

Are you a member of Grandfather?
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Tommy Williamsen

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Re: Greatest golf course in a forest setting
« Reply #33 on: July 19, 2008, 10:03:44 AM »
Sahalee is built in a forest with the "greatest" trees.
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