quote author=Jud Tigerman link=topic=54785.msg1267313#msg1267313 date=1360444941]
I'm stating that the mounds as pictured, would be received differently, had Rees designed, left or constructed them
OK. Tom didn't design or construct the mounds, so can we stop comparing them to mounds that were designed or constructed by a GCA in the process of designing a golf course?
Nobody compared them to constructed mounds, as to their design, of course they were incorporated into the design.
If Rees had left them, what would he be criticized for...leaving them?
Absolutely, and more Now if you're asking if the course would have as much buzz as it does now if Rees had designed it,
That's NOT what I'm asking, so that line of discussion can be discarded.I grant you that it probably wouldn't. When I play one of his courses that I really like, that is designed with the average golfer in mind instead of just low handicaps and tour players, that is as fun as it is penal, then maybe I'll get a semi-chub to travel to nowhere Florida to play one of his courses.
What courses of his have you played ?Would it have been ranked lower if Rees had designed it? Well the course isn't ranked yet and initial indications are that it may be in the top 100 of some lists but perhaps in the lower half, so who knows?
That's not the issue, but, you could start a thread with that premise.If you're intimating that there's a large contingent of Doak and C&C butt-boys here, well stop the presses (FYI- Lincoln was shot).
I'm not "intimating" that, like in Geometry, that's a given. When I play one of their courses that I really don't like, that isn't designed with the average golfer in mind and which is more penal than fun, perhaps I'll get off the bandwagon.
What's your opinion of Bandon Trails and Easthampton ?Otherwise this is the biggest waste of 7 pages in recent memory.
That's your opinion, obviously many others don't share it as demonstrated by their participation. Can we at least veer off into a political discussion or an anal retentive analysis of the soils at Streamsong going back to the Paleolithic Age?
I noticed, in a quick review of the last 450 threads or nine pages, that you hadn't started a single thread, so I find it comical or pathetic that you'd suggest that we "veer off". But, I did find a thread you created on page 10, an off topic thread, labeled "OT- For the guy who got shafted by Santa"
And in that thread you didn't enter one word, you merely posted a link, so please, for someone who contributes so little in the way of interesting threads, you're the last person that needs to tell us to "veer off"
Feel free to start any thread which you think others will find interesting, a thread that isn't limited to a quote or link, a thread that will get more than 6 replies.