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Peter Pallotta
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Crosswinds at the Ocean Course
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August 10, 2012, 11:18:41 PM »
Phil Mickleson noted that throughout the round, players were facing crosswinds (as opposed to wind behind them or in their face). Does anyone think/know whether Pete Dye did this intentionally? Is this another example of PD taking what he saw/learned in GB&I and "transmuting" it for big time American professional golf?
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Adrian_Stiff
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Re: Crosswinds at the Ocean Course
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August 11, 2012, 05:45:33 AM »
Winds change.
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Peter Pallotta
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Re: Crosswinds at the Ocean Course
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August 11, 2012, 09:22:18 AM »
Adrian -- I guess I was asking whether PD designed the course so that the prevailing winds would play as crosswinds instead of helping/hurting winds, which kind of winds I associate more with the old links courses that play out and back.
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Jason Thurman
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Re: Crosswinds at the Ocean Course
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August 11, 2012, 10:30:11 AM »
The reputation of Kiawah's winds is that they shift almost constantly and have no real prevailing direction. So, I doubt it.
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Re: Crosswinds at the Ocean Course
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August 11, 2012, 11:02:58 AM »
As with most locations along the SE coast, winds usually blow on shore or off shore. I suspect Dye wasn't oblivious to that. But, as noted, the winds in the area can also blow in all sorts of directions.
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Carl Nichols
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Re: Crosswinds at the Ocean Course
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August 11, 2012, 11:40:19 AM »
Peter-
I know nothing about how Mr. Dye decided to route the course or the limitations he had in doing so. But the property is in roughly the shape of a fairly long rectangle, so it may have been inevitable that the course would have a good number of holes running in the directions that they do.
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Howard Riefs
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Re: Crosswinds at the Ocean Course
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August 11, 2012, 12:06:08 PM »
My understanding and experience having played it a few times is that there is no prevailing wind.
Brad Klein says otherwise:
The prevailing wind is out of the west-southwest, meaning that the course tends to play downwind, then a long stretch into the wind, and it finishes on the downwind side. Whatever the direction, however, wind is a constant factor.
http://mobile.golfweek.com/news/2012/aug/05/pga-championship-ocean-course-hole-hole/
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