[Jonathan Cummings]

Sorry Geoff I had to send this over to GCA.com.  I thought Kim's comments about Birkdale were rather witty.


It was all new to Kim, who took last week off following his victory at Congressional. He played the front nine Sunday afternoon when he arrived from Dallas to help get over the jet lag, and those two hours made him feel even more tired.

“It beat me up,” he said. “Everything is tiny here. The fairways are tiny. The hole may be smaller, for all I know.”

JC

[Steve_ Shaffer]

I thought this one was good too:


Lewine Mair profiles Geoff Ogilvy, who played golf at Hoylake, West Lancashire and Formsby before teeing it up at Birkdale.

    "What other major is there," he asks, "that you look forward not just to playing the course but all the others around it?"


I predict that in 2013 when the US Open is at Merion there will be a lot of guest play from the pros at a certain course near an amusement park across the Delaware River.

[Dan Herrmann]

Steve, Whee!  Season passes are only $70!
http://www.clementonpark.com/seasonpass08.html

[Lynn_Shackelford]

In response to Olgilvy's comments I can think of two.
Winged Foot and on a smaller scale a U.S. Open at Pebble.  But I agree in general with his thoughts and ability to go see new and different design aspects.

[Lynn_Shackelford]

And of course Shinnecock.

[David_Tepper]

The 75 or so miles of the Lancashire coast from Hoylake to Lytham St. Anne's could contain the strongest collection of links golf courses in the world - Hoylake, Wallasey, West Lancs, Formby, Hillside, Southport Ainsdale, Birkdale, Hesketh, Lytham St. Anne's, etc.

Hard to beat that!


     

[Dan Herrmann]

David - Amen to that

[Ronald Montesano]

That's all well and good, but it's a compressed country.  I imagine that one could do the same on Hokaido and Madagascar...It also comes down to perspective...there is a wonderful glut of courses along the California coastline, Westchester county (as previously mentioned), the Boston area, the Charleston area, and southeastern Florida (just to name a few.)  North of the border, look at what metro Toronto offers.  There are plural acceptable responses to Ogilvy's "Where else..." inquiry.

[tlavin]

In response to Olgilvy's comments I can think of two.
Winged Foot and on a smaller scale a U.S. Open at Pebble.  But I agree in general with his thoughts and ability to go see new and different design aspects.

Lefty summed up a similar thought yesterday when asked what it was that he liked about the links-style courses.  He said he liked them because they are so different from what they play every day.  Variety breeds interest.

[Garland Bayley]

That's all well and good, but it's a compressed country.

As opposed to ........... the US which is a depressed country. Witness the number of people on prozac.

There are plural acceptable responses to Ogilvy's "Where else..." inquiry.

I suspect that plural may be for your standard, not Geoff's. If windy links are the criteria, and quantity is counted in the determination, then Shinecoock and Pebble can get mentioned, but pale in meeting the full criteria.

EDIT: By the way Ronald, you can forego inviting me on a golf trip to Madagascar or Hokaido.

[RJ_Daley]

Garland, you'd give up a chance to play "Foulepoint"!!! 

[Garland Bayley]

Garland, you'd give up a chance to play "Foulepoint"!!! 

Having done Addis Abeba CC, I feel I can safely forego Foulepoint.
 

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