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Garland Bayley

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #25 on: January 28, 2010, 07:25:52 PM »
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

Kalen Braley

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #26 on: January 28, 2010, 07:27:46 PM »
So much for no white sand on the golf course!!!   ;)  ;D

Ben Sims

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #27 on: January 28, 2010, 07:28:11 PM »
This is funny.  I am rifling through my normal post work perusal of GCA (it's Rudy's barbeque night!) and I swear I was going to say Tommy D until I saw his post.

It looks cool.  Also looks like a place I can convince the wife to go for vacation AND actually get some quality golf in.  

Tom, please, enlighten us all on the project, if it's public, etc.

Ron Csigo

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #28 on: January 28, 2010, 07:37:20 PM »
I was going to say Tom as well until he posted.  That sneaky guy! ;D
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Greg Tallman

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #29 on: January 28, 2010, 07:40:37 PM »
This is funny.  I am rifling through my normal post work perusal of GCA (it's Rudy's barbeque night!) and I swear I was going to say Tommy D until I saw his post.

It looks cool.  Also looks like a place I can convince the wife to go for vacation AND actually get some quality golf in.  

Tom, please, enlighten us all on the project, if it's public, etc.

Ben, While I would not pretend to speak for Tom Doak I blieve the best way to describe the project or status of the project is much like any new development these day... state of flux. Business models that were in place 18 months ago may have been tossed, completely revised or have the principals standing together scratching their heads with one asking the other "When you supose we might be able to put this into action?"

Wonderful area off the beaten path (at the very least an hour from La Paz airport) and huge property and nice beach area though no anchor resort as yet.

They do have the former managing partner's residence acting as a bit of a lodge... it is quite nice and the wife would definitely aprove if she like solitude.

Greg Tallman

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Greg Tallman

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #31 on: January 28, 2010, 07:49:28 PM »
By the way photo credit goes to Larry Lambrecht who ironically takes big game fisihng far more seriously than photography. All that means is he will get out of bed earlier for fishing than photography. That said he is one of the best in the game.

Kalen Braley

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #32 on: January 28, 2010, 07:53:13 PM »
More photos of the course here..

http://www.bahiasuenos.com/photo-gallery-3

Ronald Montesano

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #33 on: January 28, 2010, 08:04:20 PM »
Estoy Bahia de los Suenos por Senor Doak.

Shoot the man...that Spanish and a bottle of Tequila and we'll never hear from him again.

Me llamo Bahia de suenyos, de parte de Tom Doak.
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~Soaring Eagles
~Bonavista
~Indian Hills
~Maybe some more!!

Tom_Doak

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #34 on: January 28, 2010, 08:17:19 PM »
As Greg says, our clients are sorting out their options at the moment.  They are open to letting people see and play the course, but they know the traffic is going to be a trickle because of the remote location and the lack of interest in buying real estate down there right now.  So, they are not staffing a pro shop or declaring the course "open" -- the grand opening probably won't be until December -- but if you are in the area you can play it.

It's almost exactly a two-hour drive from the Los Cabos airport, an hour from La Paz, or if you've got your own small plane, you can land on site.  Larry has suggested we rent out the Hotel California across the peninsula in Todos Santos, in order to play the Renaissance Cup there.

John Kirk

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #35 on: January 28, 2010, 08:21:06 PM »
I eventually recognized the designer by recognizing the photographer...truly Lambrechtian.

Ron Csigo

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #36 on: January 28, 2010, 08:52:17 PM »
Estoy Bahia de los Suenos por Senor Doak.

Shoot the man...that Spanish and a bottle of Tequila and we'll never hear from him again.

Me llamo Bahia de suenyos, de parte de Tom Doak.

Gracias el profesor ::)
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Ian Andrew

Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #37 on: January 28, 2010, 09:53:18 PM »
Larry has suggested we rent out the Hotel California across the peninsula in Todos Santos, in order to play the Renaissance Cup there.

Such a lovely place....

Ronald Montesano

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #38 on: January 28, 2010, 09:58:48 PM »
Larry has suggested we rent out the Hotel California across the peninsula in Todos Santos, in order to play the Renaissance Cup there.

On a dark desert highway...
Coming in 2024
~Elmira Country Club
~Soaring Eagles
~Bonavista
~Indian Hills
~Maybe some more!!

Jeff Goldman

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #39 on: January 28, 2010, 10:58:47 PM »
What's with the bunkers guarding the hazard in the first photo?
That was one hellacious beaver.

Mike Nuzzo

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #40 on: January 29, 2010, 12:38:39 AM »
the first picture looks like a toned down 6th(?) from Apache Stronghold
The next picture doesn't look like Doak as the bunkers are a little proud of the fwy surface - looked more nicklaus
Thinking of Bob, Rihc, Bill, George, Neil, Dr. Childs, & Tiger.

Ronald Montesano

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Coming in 2024
~Elmira Country Club
~Soaring Eagles
~Bonavista
~Indian Hills
~Maybe some more!!

Tom_Doak

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #42 on: January 29, 2010, 10:04:04 AM »
What's with the bunkers guarding the hazard in the first photo?

Jeff:

It's different playing golf in the desert and having "hazard" 360 degrees around you at all times.  In that situation, I try to provide a little relief, and put in some bunkers which will stop a ball which has caught a slope from careening into the desert.

You would call them strategic bunkers in the same position if there was rough, rather than desert, on the low side, wouldn't you?

Jud_T

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #43 on: January 29, 2010, 02:01:58 PM »
Perfect! I will be down there around Christmas and am hoping to make the drive down....
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

Tom Yost

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #44 on: January 29, 2010, 05:00:16 PM »
When I saw the first photo, I thought it looked somewhat like Apache Stronghold #6 but someone had photoshopped it be green.


Dick Kirkpatrick

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Re: Name the Designer... not the course...
« Reply #45 on: January 29, 2010, 07:16:13 PM »
Looks nice to me, maybe a Doak 4, or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8

How about a vote