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Sven Nilsen

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #25 on: April 26, 2012, 09:56:50 AM »
Sure Adam, any bounce that propels your opponents ball closer to the green or back into the fairway is patently unfair.
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Tom Yost

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #26 on: April 26, 2012, 10:03:58 AM »
No shortage of rock features in the Scottsdale foothills area.  The one that immediately comes to mind is the namesake monolith that guards the turn point of the par 5 3rd at Troon North Monument course.


This one doesn't come into play, but provides a scenic backdrop for the green at the par 5 13th at the Rim Club (Payson AZ):




Coyote Moon (Truckee CA) has lots of boulders in play but I thought this one off to the side of the 9th fairway was most interesting:

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Bill Brightly

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #27 on: April 26, 2012, 04:48:09 PM »
New South Wales


Weyhill (Saucon Valley) Quarry Hole




Weyhill Hole 18


Weyhill Old Lime Kiln
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Bill Brightly

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #28 on: April 26, 2012, 04:50:03 PM »
Tuxedo #16


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Bill Brightly

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #29 on: April 26, 2012, 04:55:01 PM »
Stone Eagle

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David_Tepper

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #30 on: April 26, 2012, 04:55:46 PM »
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John Mayhugh

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #31 on: April 26, 2012, 05:02:02 PM »
Literally on the rocks. 
Lookout Mountain, par 3 6th hole.





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Jeff_Brauer

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #32 on: April 26, 2012, 05:08:13 PM »
Dan,

As I once relayed, the 1st and 10 at FB taught me that dynamite is not exactly a precision grading tool!  I would have liked the top shelf wider, but have negotiated it myself.
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Howard Riefs

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #33 on: April 26, 2012, 05:15:45 PM »
Quote from: Eric Smith on April 25, 2012, 04:32:39 PM
One of the more unusual rocky hazards I've come across was on the 13th hole at Playa Grande, Dominican Republic.

Up close you'll find this giant hole in the left center of the fairway about 200 yds out:






Let me get this straight: A cavern in the fairway that leads to the ocean?

If so, it's a new definition of a hazard.


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Eric Smith

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #34 on: April 26, 2012, 05:21:15 PM »
Howard,

I kid you not. Here's an aerial:





John,

Great Lookout pics.
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Sven Nilsen

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #35 on: April 26, 2012, 05:28:23 PM »
A few more:

Riviera Maya:


Greystone (TN):


Greystone (again):


Blackstone:


Barefoot (Love):


Ballybunion:


Shattuck (recently mentioned on another thread):


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Garland Bayley

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #36 on: April 26, 2012, 05:30:19 PM »
Perhaps Bogey's favorite.


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Howard Riefs

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #37 on: April 26, 2012, 07:03:20 PM »
Quote from: Eric Smith on April 26, 2012, 05:21:15 PM
Howard,

I kid you not. Here's an aerial:






Yep. You weren't kidding.  Nice to play a hole where the aiming point is the fairway bunker.  

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James Bennett

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #38 on: April 27, 2012, 08:20:39 AM »
I can think of three, but no photos - sorry.  First two in Australia, last in East Lothian (Scotland)

Alice Springs #8 - a longish par 4 played from open teeing ground to an open green, but through a rocky gulch.  Quite narrow, but I guess you take what mother nature gives you for such a hole.

Avondale in Sydney's northern suburbs.  9th is a shortish par 4 with a drop shot second, and massive boulders in the adjacent cliff edges.

North Berwick West #3, and the wall crossing the fairway.  Especially if Tony Muldoon is trying to 'flick' one over the wall.

James B

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Matthew Mollica

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #39 on: April 27, 2012, 09:23:15 AM »
Pebble Beach 7 & 18




Monterey Peninsula Shore Course's 6th green backdrop (with 11th tee nestled within it).




Cypress Point 15, 16 & 17





And if MacKenzie could have built a tee on top of this for 18...



And a point common to many holes at Meadow Club



MM
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Harris Nepon

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #40 on: April 27, 2012, 09:33:32 AM »
Mark Saltzman, post some pics of the courses in Muskoka. Represent Canada.
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Chris_Hufnagel

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #41 on: April 27, 2012, 09:36:38 AM »
This has to be one of my favorites...

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Mike Hendren

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #42 on: April 27, 2012, 11:51:49 AM »
I didn't care for the approach to the par-5 third and RTJ's Oxmoor Valley Ridge Course and the par-5 5th at Mike Strantz's Tot Hill Farm.  Can't find my photographs.

Bogey
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Kalen Braley

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #43 on: April 27, 2012, 12:17:10 PM »










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Scott Sander

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #44 on: April 27, 2012, 01:44:57 PM »
Kalen-

Looking at those took me sideways - by the third photo, I was 100% sure of the architect.  But it took me to the end of the series to be sure of the course. 

You'd think in that setting it'd be the other way around.  Especially since I really, really liked that course, and the setting is truly unique.

That's what alphabet bunkers and hernia greens will do, I guess. 
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Kalen Braley

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #45 on: April 27, 2012, 02:22:25 PM »
It is indeed a very unique setting and I think the architect did a great job incorporating all the rock features into it.

The housing takes away, no doubt, but I'm guessing he didn't have control over that.  But in the end, it really was a very fun course to play as are all of his courses.  I get they aren't the most natural looking courses, but every single one of his courses I've played has been fun with lots of different shot requirements.


Kalen
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Mark Saltzman

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #46 on: April 27, 2012, 10:36:05 PM »
Quote from: Harris Nepon on April 27, 2012, 09:33:32 AM
Mark Saltzman, post some pics of the courses in Muskoka. Represent Canada.

Harris, do we have any courses with rocks in Canada...  ;D

Rocky Crest









Bigwin Island




Deerhurst



Oviinbyrd






















Grandview








Muskoka Bay












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Steve_Lovett

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #47 on: April 27, 2012, 10:48:10 PM »
I don't know how to post pictures - but search #12 at Battle Creek Golf Course, near Marysville, WA (north of Seattle).
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Matthew Mollica

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #48 on: April 28, 2012, 12:56:52 AM »
Some oddities, maybe not in the them of the thread per se but still rocks and golf...

North Berwick


Road Hole


The March Stones of TOC


Ailsa Craig


And why hadn't Melvyn posted this?
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Rick Shefchik

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Re: On the Rocks
« Reply #49 on: April 28, 2012, 12:52:33 PM »
This is the one that first came to my mind -- Troon North #3:



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