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Kalen Braley

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #50 on: October 11, 2011, 04:00:54 PM »
I can see where you might be coming from on the last 5 holes....

I thought 15 had some good interest off the tee and whether/how one challenges the creek/hazard and 16 had that really tough little green complex to negotiate.

18 was one of the better holes on the course IMO, but no doubt the best stretch of holes comes on the front 9.
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Mike_Trenham

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #51 on: October 11, 2011, 09:16:46 PM »
Best Course Played in 2011: Pine Valey
Best Course Played for First Time:  Yale
Best Club in Area that Doesn't Get Mentioned on GCA:  Brookside Allentown
Best Guilty Pleasure:  Anything by Willard Byrd
Course You Most Want to Play Next Year:  Big three in northern ireland
New Year's Resolution:  No new equipment more instruction
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Mark Saltzman

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #52 on: October 11, 2011, 09:21:58 PM »
Quote from: Sean Leary on October 11, 2011, 02:48:09 PM


Thanks, I agree with many of your thoughts. I would have it as a 6 myself which is as high as I have any course in WA other than CB (Have not played WV). The last 5 holes are a letdown for me compared to the first 13, but its very good. Conditions there are generally perfect, but curious to see how much poa is there now, as it has been a couple of years since I have played it.

Sean,

I can't remember if we discussed this at some point or not, but I agree the last 5 holes are not of the same quality as the first 13.  

Some of the holes are fantastic, though.  In particular, 1, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11 really stick out in my mind.  11 was the only par-3 that kept my interest, though.

Sorry for the threadjack.
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Mac Plumart

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #53 on: November 27, 2011, 10:50:56 PM »
Best Course you have played in 2011:  The Old Course
Best Course you played for the first time this year:  The Old Course
Best Club in your area never rarely mentioned in GCA: Achasta
Best "Guilty Pleasure" course:  St. Marlo
Course you most want to play next year:  Prairie Dunes
New year's golf resolution:  Spend more time with my family
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Joe_Tucholski

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #54 on: November 27, 2011, 11:00:36 PM »
Mac I was just about to bring the thread back since I'm done with golf for the year due to finals and my national boards coming up.  I was surprised when I hit enter and saw someone else posted while I was typing.

Best Course you have played in 2011:  Bandon
Best Course you played for the first time this year:  Bandon
Best Club in your area (within 30 miles) never mentioned in GCA:  LA is discussed regularly
Best "Guilty Pleasure" course (course that is not great architecturally, but quite fun to play):  Lost Canyons has all you can play deals and when they do this a friend and I are able to convince our wives to let us play.  We play all sorts of different games in the afternoon when the course is nearly empty (2 clubs, left handed, one handed, driver on par 3's...).  I really have fun doing it.
Course you most want to play next year:    Pasatiempo
New year's golf resolution:  Play at least three times every month.
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Mac Plumart

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #55 on: November 27, 2011, 11:03:37 PM »
Joe...

my year is likely over as well. 

By Bandon, do you mean Bandon Dunes the course or all the courses at the resort?
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John Kavanaugh

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #56 on: November 27, 2011, 11:04:32 PM »
Dismal River
Dismal River
Dismal River
Dismal River
Play Dismal River

Note: The above includes but is not limited to all 36 holes at Dismal River.
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Mac Plumart

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #57 on: November 27, 2011, 11:12:23 PM »
A test...

Dismal River is to John Kavanaugh as Cruden Bay is to _______.


The winner gets a round of golf at The 'Mont with me!!!   8)
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Kyle Henderson

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #58 on: November 27, 2011, 11:21:21 PM »
Quote from: Mac Plumart on November 27, 2011, 11:12:23 PM
A test...

Dismal River is to John Kavanaugh as Cruden Bay is to _______.


The winner gets a round of golf at The 'Mont with me!!!   8)

Anthony Gray. Thanks for the softball.
« Last Edit: November 27, 2011, 11:25:01 PM by Kyle Henderson »
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Joe_Tucholski

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #59 on: November 27, 2011, 11:25:42 PM »
Quote from: Mac Plumart on November 27, 2011, 11:03:37 PM
Joe...

my year is likely over as well. 

By Bandon, do you mean Bandon Dunes the course or all the courses at the resort?

I left it vague on purpose...but Bandon Dunes was my favorite course during the trip.  I played it three times and each of the others only once.
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Mac Plumart

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #60 on: November 27, 2011, 11:27:47 PM »
Quote from: Kyle Henderson on November 27, 2011, 11:21:21 PM
Quote from: Mac Plumart on November 27, 2011, 11:12:23 PM
A test...

Dismal River is to John Kavanaugh as Cruden Bay is to _______.


The winner gets a round of golf at The 'Mont with me!!!   8)

Anthony Gray. Thanks for the softball.

Let me know when you want to collect on the bet.   :)
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Pete Blaisdell

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #61 on: November 28, 2011, 03:44:13 AM »
Pacific Dunes
Wnchester (MA.) CC
Bretwood (North) ,Keene NH
Nashua (NH) CC
Garden City Golf Club
Try harder to get that first ACE before the good Lord issues the BIG DQ!!
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Mark Chaplin

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #62 on: November 28, 2011, 04:13:05 AM »
Best course in 2011 - Royal Melbourne Presidents Cup course
Best new course in 2011 - National Golf Links
Best local course - Rye Jubilee 9
Guilty pleasure - Lamberhurst
Next years desire - Royal County Down
New years golf resolution - longer lunches
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David Nelson

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #63 on: November 28, 2011, 05:11:56 AM »
Best Course in 2011: Machrihanish
Best course played for the first time: Pasatiempo
Best Course in your area: Turnberry "Ailsa"
Best "Guilty Pleasure" Course: Girvan
Course you most want to play next year: Swinley Forest
New year golf resolution: More play from the short grass
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Shane Wright

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #64 on: November 28, 2011, 11:33:23 AM »
Best Course in 2011 - The Old Course
Best Course played for the first time - Turnberry
Best Course in your area that doesn't get mentioned on GCA - Windsong - Minnesota
Best "Guilty Pleasure" Course - Willinger's
Course you most want to play next year: Ballyneal and Dunes Club
New year's golf resolution - Getting my two year old on the course next year (will be three), and talking my wife into Ireland for 2013
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George Freeman

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #65 on: November 28, 2011, 11:43:06 AM »
Best Course you played in 2011: Tie: NGLA, Shinnecock, Fishers Island - too hard to pick a favorite...
Best Course you played for the first time this year: Same as above.
Best Club in your area (within 30 miles) rarely mentioned in GCA: Butterfield CC (Chicago area)
Best "Guilty Pleasure" course (course that is not great architecturally, but quite fun to play): Cog Hill #2
Course you most want to play next year: French Lick Ross and Rock Creek Cattle Co.
New year's golf resolution: Play more golf and meet a few more GCAers.
Most surprising course: Plainfield CC - blew my high expectations out of the water.  Fabulous piece of property and Ross used it masterfully.  Honorable mention: Creek Club - again, blew my high expectations out of the water.
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Jason Topp

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #66 on: November 28, 2011, 11:48:23 AM »
Best Course in 2011 - Kinloch

Best Course played for the first time - Kinloch

Best Course in your area that doesn't get mentioned on GCA - Golden Valley  

Best "Guilty Pleasure" Course - Not quite sure what this means but I love playing at Bunker Hills in Coon Rapids, MN.  There is nothing special about the architecture but it is on good sandy soil, there is always an enjoyable $2 nassau available and there are great people to play with.    

Course you most want to play next year:  I do not really have a bucket list of courses I want to play.  If I were to take one trip for the primary purpose of seeing one course, I would probably pick Prairie Dunes.

New year's golf resolution - Play less/practice more.  My kids have gotten old enough that they are no longer much of a limiting factor in how much I play.  I have been badly burned out in the fall the last couple of years.
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Shane Wright

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #67 on: November 28, 2011, 12:13:35 PM »
Quote from: Jason Topp on November 28, 2011, 11:48:23 AM
Best Course in your area that doesn't get mentioned on GCA - Golden Valley  


Jason, spot on with this.  I definitely should have noted GV instead.
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PCCraig

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #68 on: November 28, 2011, 12:28:36 PM »
Quote from: Shane Wright on November 28, 2011, 12:13:35 PM
Quote from: Jason Topp on November 28, 2011, 11:48:23 AM
Best Course in your area that doesn't get mentioned on GCA - Golden Valley  


Jason, spot on with this.  I definitely should have noted GV instead.


Agreed, Golden Valley is a very solid classical AWT design. 
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Jeff_Brauer

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #69 on: November 28, 2011, 01:17:27 PM »
Wrote a song to the tune of "Knocking on Heaven's Door" to desribe the 2011 Texas Golf Season:

"Mama, take these clubs away from me....
I don't wan them anymore.....
Gettin' hot, too hot to play......
Just wanna make one more 4....

I may play another day.....or I'll be....

Knock, knock, knocking on Heaven's Door.....

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Doug Wright

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #70 on: November 28, 2011, 03:16:41 PM »
Best Course in 2011 - Prairie Dunes

Best Course played for the first time not called Prairie Dunes - Redlands Mesa

Best Course in your area that doesn't get mentioned on GCA - Denver CC (homer call) 

Best "Guilty Pleasure" Course -  Wellshire GC, Denver   

Course you most want to play next year:  Royal St. George's

New year's golf resolution - Short game
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Tony Weiler

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #71 on: November 28, 2011, 03:36:52 PM »
Best Course you have played in 2011:  Rock Creek Cattle Co. and Riviera (could not just list one)
Best Course you played for the first time this year:  See Above
Best Club in your area (within 30 miles) never mentioned in GCA: Riverwood (a fine muni)
Best "Guilty Pleasure" course (course that is not great architecturally, but quite fun to play): Bully Pulpit (some will disagree!)
Course you most want to play next year:  Dismal River
New year's golf resolution:  Have more fun!
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Michael George

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #72 on: November 28, 2011, 04:43:39 PM »
Best Course you have played in 2011:  Pacific Dunes

Best Course you played for the first time this year:  Pete Dye GC

Best Club in your area (within 30 miles) never mentioned in GCA: Sharon GC - all male club that wants no publicity

Best "Guilty Pleasure" course (course that is not great architecturally, but quite fun to play):  I disagree with the premise.  Golf courses should first be designed to be fun to play.  Any feature that is fun and wants you to play it again should be deemed good architecturally.  Now there is a fine line between silly and fun.  Unfortunately, many fun ideas are just silly and makes for a bad experience.  Wolf Creek in Mesquite, NV is the best example.  It rides the line between fun and silly.  I enjoyed it because I was not looking for a MacKenzie design.  I accepted the beautiful area and a fun experience and looked past the 4-5 silly holes. I would not rank it in any top 100, but if you accept it as just fun golf, you will enjoy it.

Course you most want to play next year:  Pine Valley.  It is the gold standard.  Just reading the Sebonack string today has me thinking.  Sebonack was a collaboration of 2 designers.  While Pine Valley was orchestrated by George Crump, it involved many of the great designers ever - Colt obviously, Alison, Wilson, Flynn, Tillinghast, Thomas.  

New year's golf resolution:  To focus on the friendships that golf provides more than the golf courses.
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Ian Andrew

Re: Year in Review
« Reply #73 on: November 28, 2011, 04:58:57 PM »
Best Course you have played in 2011:  Ballybunnion
Best Course you played for the first time this year:  Ballybunnion
Best Club in your area (within 30 miles) never mentioned in GCA: Hamilton Golf & Country Club (was a top 100 in the world)
Best "Guilty Pleasure" course (course that is not great architecturally, but quite fun to play): The Heritage at Westmoor
Course you most want to play next year: Laval-sur-le-lac (Blue)
New year's golf resolution: to join a club to play and practice (same one I break every year)
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Tim Pitner

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Re: Year in Review
« Reply #74 on: November 28, 2011, 05:39:59 PM »
Quote from: Ian Andrew on November 28, 2011, 04:58:57 PM
Best "Guilty Pleasure" course (course that is not great architecturally, but quite fun to play): The Heritage at Westmoor

Ian,

If this is the course in Colorado, I've been championing it for years to all those who would listen (not many).
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