The sound of a pretty girl saying "yes"

[Peter Pallotta]

Chicago-born jazz man, New York musician and entrepreneur, and all around bon vivant Eddie Condon had a famous line describing the first time he heard Bix Beiderbecke playing his cornet. Trying to capture Bix's pure, transcendentally ringing tone, Condon said: "It was the sound a pretty girl saying 'yes'".

So - what single vista, or golf hole, or golf shot is for you like a pretty girl saying 'yes'. Please limit your answer to just one girl, and to just one blessed "yes".

Peter

[Jordan Standefer]

Seeing my ball safely in the fairway coming over the hill at #3 on Old MacDonald.

[Dan Kelly]

Have seen it only once, but hope to see it again: the second shot to 18 at the Old Course, with the R&A in the background, in the setting sun, on a partly cloudy evening in midsummer. (The time I saw it, it was late fall, and raining cats and dogs, and my playing companions -- a couple of old Scots named Robert and Andy -- were in a hurry to get to the bar before their wives came to pick them up.)

One reason I like it so much is that, by all appearances, the girl is quite willing to say Yes if you treat her properly.

Listen to her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ue9igC7flI.

[Tom_Doak]

For me that would be the 13th hole at Pacific Dunes.  From the moment we set eyes on it, it was already done.

[Keith OHalloran]

Making the left turn after the warm up area, and seeing the course at Sand Hills.  It is an especially pretty girl when it is the first time of the trip.

[Jim Colton]

When I saw how the 7th green at Ballyneal bled into the 4th fairway and offered a sneak peek of things to come for the first time, I was a member right then & there. Literally a life changing moment for me.

[Chris DeToro]

Oh it would have to be the 7th hole at Pebble...

[John Foley]

Late on a summers night many moons ago - back tee - 16th hole @ Sand Hills - perfection

[Mark Fedeli]

When I saw how the 7th green at Ballyneal bled into the 4th fairway and offered a sneak peek of things to come for the first time, I was a member right then there. Literally a life changing moment for me.

Great call, Jim. My first time playing a runner into the 7th green at Ballyneal (and playing it perfectly) was the moment for me.

[Alex Miller]

2 of many from Scotland that were captured on camera.

A birthday to remember. My friend on the right (I am on the left) made bogey as he wedged into the valley of sin... for a 68!


For Tim Weiman and others... the 3rd tee at Elie. Not pictured, 25+mph winds!  

[Pete_Pittock]

For me that would be the 13th hole at Pacific Dunes.  From the moment we set eyes on it, it was already done.

I'd have to agree that's right up there, after rolling under the barbed wire fence to get there.

But my vote is about one mile south when you reach the dogleg of David McKay Kidd's 4th hole at Bandon Dunes. The pot bunker, gorse and everything else transported me back to Scotland.

[John McCarthy]

Sea shells and balloons...

[Ben Sims]

The first time I walked from 3 green to 4 tee at Ballyneal.

[Joel_Stewart]

Standing on the 17th tee at Cypress Point.  Knowing you have just played the greatest par 3 in the world.

[Brandon Urban]

The view to the north off the back of 2 green at Sand Hills. I could sit in that spot for hours

[Peter Pallotta]

Thanks gents, and please keep them coming. I am enjoying these 'snap shots' and I appreciate you all sticking to one pretty girl and one 'yes'...somehow that approach really works to put the focus on the aspects/moments you really love about gca, on those transcendent moments.  As John F's tag line suggests, a golfing life is perhaps not measured by the number of top 100s we can talk about, but by the number of times we find ourselves speechless.

Peter

[Mark Bourgeois]

Looking out the clubhouse window at Delamere Forest.

[Tim Leahy]

After a par or better looking back up the cliff from the green on no. 8 at Pebble Beach. Doesn't get any better.

[Bob_Garvelink]

# 6 at Threetops Masterpiece course....after all its the hole that put Northern Michigan golf on the map.

As a lifelong Detroit Lions fan I take great pride in our States golf courses and I wish I could say the same about our NFL team.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9FJoRxT6B5g

Pure Michigan

[JC Jones]

Standing on the first tee at Crystal Downs in October of 2007. 

[Tom_Doak]

For me that would be the 13th hole at Pacific Dunes.  From the moment we set eyes on it, it was already done.

I'd have to agree that's right up there, after rolling under the barbed wire fence to get there.

Pete:

When we started work on the routing, you couldn't get to the tee on 13, because #12 and #4 and #3 were still solid gorse.  When Mr. Keiser told us there was some more land to the north (off our map) which we might be able to "borrow", Jim and I drove around to the beach, and hiked back in on a trail along the top of the dune [across what are now #15 and #7 greens at Old Mac] to reach the site of the present 14th tee at Pacific, which was the perspective I saw 13 for the first time. 

I'd guess that's how Balboa felt when he discovered the Pacific Ocean.

But I smiled remembering that even after the gorse burned, we left that fence up behind #13 for quite a while, so you had to roll under the fence to go see the hole.  Part of that was theatrics, and part was that we wanted to make sure no one went over there and messed anything up.

[mike_beene]

The 7th tee at Gullane 1 looking across to the castle and the firth bridge and down to Murfield

[Rick Shefchik]

Standing on the 17th tee at Cypress Point.  Knowing you have just played the greatest par 3 in the world.

For me, it was standing on the 16th tee at Cypress Point, knowing I was about to play the greatest par 3 in the world. And then almost knocking my tee shot into the hole.

[Bill_McBride]

For me that would be the 13th hole at Pacific Dunes.  From the moment we set eyes on it, it was already done.

Was that blow out on the right side already there?

Second most amazing feature on the course, after the Pacific Ocean!

[Bill_McBride]

One of my great thrills at Cypress Point was knocking my tee shot over the berm on #13 and out into the fairway.  One of the most underrated holes on the course in my opinion.