A seahorse in convulsions...I have soiled myself

[Ronald Montesano]

"The Olazabal Course is a showcase for immoderate shaping, thanks to concave fairways and massive, cauliflower bunkering with flash-white sand. This wild, relentless dogleg par 5 looks like a seahorse in convulsions."

http://www.golfweek.com/news/2009/nov/30/klein-design-no-15-mission-hills-olazabal-course/

Thank you, Dr. Klein, for ruining a heretofore-fairly-saleable pair of underpants.

[Norbert P]

  

Amazing that this course was built by the same guys who built the very cool Wilderness Club.

  Is this a good demonstration that an ex-pro designer really can make a huge difference?

  Or an evolution of the design team?

                              Olaz with Schmidt and Curley


                             
                              Faldo with Schmidt and Curley

[DMoriarty]

I enjoy much of their early work and have heard pretty good things about Wilderness but they are certainly not above building a truly awful hole now and then.   The 18th at the otherwise quality Goose Creek is a perfect example. 

Only 100 yards shorter for the pros than the rest of us?   A hole only Matt Ward could love.

[Sean_A]

GULP!  This picture is just about my worst nightmare so far as gca goes.  But, as TomP rails on about, Big World Theory as we live and breathe.


Ciao

[Dan Herrmann]

Remember - half of the holes designed by any architect are in the bottom 50% of the holes he's designed. (duh)

Nobody is perfect.

* This is related to "Half of the doctors out there finished in the bottom 50% of their class"