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Brad Swanson

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Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« on: June 15, 2009, 04:47:38 PM »
I just returned from a long, sublime, weekend of golf up at Marquette GC.  The Greywalls course was in phenomenal shape, amazing considering the horrible spring the upper midwest has endured this year.  I have toured the course some 20+ rounds, and I still can't get enough and look forward to my next trip back in a month or so.  Anyway, my buddy and I were discussing the course and both came to the conclusion that parcel that contains the 12-16th hole on that course is really special.  Greywalls is known for its rock and roll start, but I think the meat of the course is in the more gentle stretch of 12-16.  I could go into great detail why i like it so much there, but will just attach a picture from this weekend which captures a bit of every hole in this stretch (except #15) and leave it at that.



Where are you favorite spots on the courses you hold dear?

Cheers,
Brad
« Last Edit: June 15, 2009, 08:16:41 PM by Brad Swanson »

Tom_Doak

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2009, 07:42:00 PM »
My favorite spots at Cape Kidnappers are actually not on the golf course.  There were some awesome places that we just couldn't get to with the routing, because there was no way out of them without a jet pack!  But they are the best picnic spots in the world.

Mike Boehm

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2009, 07:52:45 PM »
Oakland Hills South - the hillside where the 8th green, 9th tee, 11th green and 12th tee all converge.  Two fantastic greens, especially 11, a couple of exciting tee shots and a nice view of one of my favorite clubhouses. 

Pete_Pittock

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2009, 08:25:51 PM »
15th tee at Pacific Dunes. Actually if I could blaze a trail through the gorse it would be atop the dune. New and improved because you get two courses for the priice of one. Honorable mention to the back back tee at 18PD.

C. Squier

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2009, 08:29:57 PM »
9th tee @ Maidstone.  No better place on earth.

Doug Ralston

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2009, 08:31:02 PM »
I just returned from a long, sublime, weekend of golf up at Marquette GC.  The Greywalls course was in phenomenal shape, amazing considering the horrible spring the upper midwest has endured this year.  I have toured the course some 20+ rounds, and I still can't get enough and look forward to my next trip back in a month or so.  Anyway, my buddy and I were discussing the course and both came to the conclusion that parcel that contains the 12-16th hole on that course is really special.  Greywalls is known for its rock and roll start, but I think the meat of the course is in the more gentle stretch of 12-16.  I could go into great detail why i like it so much there, but will just attach a picture from this weekend which captures a bit of every hole in this stretch (except #15) and leave it at that.



Where are you favorite spots on the courses you hold dear?

Cheers,
Brad

Brad;

I think the tee at #5 is more of the flavor of Greywalls, and one of my favorite places anywhere. I know exactly how it looks even now, since it is my screen background!

And I still love the tee at #15 Dale Hollow. Of course, the second shot on the par-5 #4 at Eagle Ridge is a bit mindblowing, not to mention the tees at #2 and #13.

Ain't this a gorgeous sport?

Doug
Where is everybody? Where is Tommy N? Where is John K? Where is Jay F? What has happened here? Has my absence caused this chaos? I'm sorry. All my rowdy friends have settled down ......... somewhere else!

Chris DeNigris

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2009, 08:40:21 PM »
At Royal New Kent, when you're standing on the 3rd green and turn back towards the tee(s).  There's an amazing panoramic stretch of tee areas that must sweep 100 yards from side to side. If you're out there in the evening by yourself (I frequently am) that one expansive view totally captures the immense size and feel of the place and almost....almost, makes the endless trek from number 2 green somewhat forgivable.

Chris

Brian_Sleeman

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2009, 08:49:30 PM »
That's great, Brad - thanks for the photo.  I've heard nothing but good things about the shape of Greywalls this spring and can't wait to get back up there myself for another visit.

Places I'm partial to:

Crystal Downs - just about anywhere, but especially back in that little corner where the blue tee for the 6th hole resides.  It's the first time you turn around from the furthest reaches of the front nine and head back toward the pro shop, and the view from there encompassing all of the holes on the front nine is a particular favorite.  I also like the setting out at the 14th green.  Here's a part of that view from the 6th:



Kingsley Club - the corner from the 14th green to the 15th tee.  You're really a long way from home and it is always so peaceful back there.  And it's the last peace you'll have before the daunting 15th.  No pictures here, but pictures couldn't capture the feel of that corner anyway.

Greywalls - once you've played the stretch that Brad describes, you climb out of the valley and to the top of the plateau for the 17th.  You've gotten to the crest of the last dramatic drop down the roller coaster, you can chat with some friends about to tee off on the 11th, and you're back to one last breathtaking panorama.  Looking back from the 17th green there toward the 10th tee, with all of the little undulations on the 17th growing into giant, craggly rock formations on the ridge in the horizon, and all the tall grasses and gentler rolls in between, with a 40 mile view of Lake Superior in the background - what's not to love?


John Mayhugh

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2009, 09:28:55 PM »
At Crystal Downs, how about the fifth tee?  Looking back.......


And forward.

Bill_McBride

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2009, 09:36:50 PM »
On the 14th tee at the Valley Club of Montecito.  You look across the barranca at the green,
and the 1st green behind the 14th, and the 1st fairway with the clubhouse in the distance on the hill.  
Dr Mackenzie was indeed a routing genius.



or the wall at the 13th at North Berwick:


Brad Swanson

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2009, 09:40:58 PM »
9th tee @ Maidstone.  No better place on earth.

Great call here Clint  ;).  I was channeling Anthony there with the "typo", his prolific and poor spelling knows no bounds.

« Last Edit: June 15, 2009, 11:45:04 PM by Brad Swanson »

C. Squier

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2009, 10:02:30 PM »
9th tee @ Maidstone.  No better place on earth.

Great call here Kent.


Thanks Brian  :P

Matt Bosela

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2009, 11:42:38 PM »
I've always been partial to the view from the back of the property at Oakmont, specifically looking back toward the clubhouse from behind the second green.


Ben Sims

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2009, 12:24:39 AM »
The gorse wall between the snack shack and 13 tee at Pacific Dunes.  If you've been there before, you know the vista you're about the get.  Up the coast, huge dunes to the right, wind in your face (most of the time), a rolling fairway that falls off to Japan.  Maybe the fog is hanging and you get a spare glimpse of the peninsula green at Sheep Ranch. 

If you've never been there, you know from the press and your caddy's conversation that this is one of the better holes on the course, and then, Pow!! You break out of the gorse and get that view.

Tom Huckaby

Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #14 on: June 16, 2009, 09:41:12 AM »
Some if not most laugh at connecting to a higher being while playing this game... but... I have never felt that sprituality more than off the back of the 2nd green at Sand Hills, looking outward.  I do not have a picture but those who have been there hopefully know what I am talking about... the view is so vast, one cannot help but feel small.  And then if one stops to realize how lucky he is to be there in the first place, well... they don't call that part of a "Church nine" for no reason.

So yes, that is my favorite spot on my favorite course.

TH

Anthony Gray

Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2009, 09:52:05 AM »


  16th green at Bandon Dunes


       




Kevin Pallier

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2009, 11:13:52 AM »
1st tee @ TOC....nothing gets the blood pumping like it !!

Greg Krueger

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2009, 03:16:03 PM »
My favorite spot is when you turn the corner on the way to the 3rd tee at Royal Dornoch. Absolutely stunning.
There is a good picture in Rich Goodale's My Home Course write up.

Gene Greco

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #18 on: June 16, 2009, 03:29:11 PM »
Some if not most laugh at connecting to a higher being while playing this game... but... I have never felt that sprituality more than off the back of the 2nd green at Sand Hills, looking outward.  I do not have a picture but those who have been there hopefully know what I am talking about... the view is so vast, one cannot help but feel small.  And then if one stops to realize how lucky he is to be there in the first place, well... they don't call that part of a "Church nine" for no reason.

So yes, that is my favorite spot on my favorite course.

TH

"...I don't believe it is impossible to build a modern course as good as Pine Valley.  To me, Sand Hills is just as good as Pine Valley..."    TOM DOAK  November 6th, 2010

Tom Huckaby

Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #19 on: June 16, 2009, 03:32:01 PM »
Gene:  THAT'S IT!
And of course that photo doesn't do it justice... but at least it re-cements my memories... many thanks.

TH

Gene Greco

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #20 on: June 16, 2009, 03:36:16 PM »
Gene:  THAT'S IT!
And of course that photo doesn't do it justice... but at least it re-cements my memories... many thanks.

TH
"...I don't believe it is impossible to build a modern course as good as Pine Valley.  To me, Sand Hills is just as good as Pine Valley..."    TOM DOAK  November 6th, 2010

Tom Huckaby

Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #21 on: June 16, 2009, 03:39:59 PM »
Another great one.. also showing that maddening, incredible green.... ahhhh..... love it.

 ;D

Doug Wright

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #22 on: June 16, 2009, 03:46:32 PM »
This is my favorite spot of many on Ballyneal...
« Last Edit: June 16, 2009, 03:55:22 PM by Doug Wright »
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Evan Fleisher

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #23 on: June 16, 2009, 03:54:57 PM »
Some if not most laugh at connecting to a higher being while playing this game... but... I have never felt that sprituality more than off the back of the 2nd green at Sand Hills, looking outward.  I do not have a picture but those who have been there hopefully know what I am talking about... the view is so vast, one cannot help but feel small.  And then if one stops to realize how lucky he is to be there in the first place, well... they don't call that part of a "Church nine" for no reason.

So yes, that is my favorite spot on my favorite course.

TH

Great call, Huckster.
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PCCraig

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Re: Favorite Spot on Favorite Courses
« Reply #24 on: June 16, 2009, 04:00:50 PM »
The 13th tee at Shoreacres, standing in the bottom of the natural ravine, between a cool drop shot "short" par-3 and my favorite blind tee shot this side of the Atlantic.
H.P.S.

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