The Northern Trust at Ridgewood CC this week

[Joe Bausch]

Let's make this the thread to talk about this event at an A.W. Tillinghast design tuned up recently by Gil Hanse.

I'm providing links to my ground level photos of the composite course from an October 2016 visit. 

This link from the Bausch Collection at MyPhillyGolf are faster to load as they are smaller and more compressed:

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/bausch/Ridgewood/index.html

Or if you have a bigger monitor, this link has larger, less compressed photos:

http://www80.homepage.villanova.edu/joseph.bausch/images/albums/Ridgewood/

[Eric LeFante]

The hole numbers are different this year vs past years. The five and dime hole used to be the 5th; now it's the 12th. Pretty smart by the Tour to have this hole on the back nine so TV viewers can watch it. Is it the second best short par 4 on tour, after 10 at Riviera? Probably.


I love Ridgewood and it is without a doubt in my top 4 in NJ. The par 3s actually aren't standouts here, maybe because the 4s and 5s overshadow them. The three par 5s are awesome, with 13 being one of the toughest I've played. There are a handful of par 4s that are some of the best par 4s you'll see anywhere: 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 18.

[Joe Bausch]

I don’t think the hole-sequencing has changed, Eric.

[Eric LeFante]

I don’t think the hole-sequencing has changed, Eric.

Here is a link to the 2014 tournament leaderboard. If you click on one of the names you can see the scorecard. Holes 5-12 have been rearranged. The current holes 5-12 used to be 9, 10, 11, 12, 6, 7, 8, 5.




https://www.golfchannel.com/tours/pga-tour/2014/barclays/

[David_Tepper]

Drone flyover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsxcI1ufi6I

[Joe Bausch]

I don’t think the hole-sequencing has changed, Eric.

Here is a link to the 2014 tournament leaderboard. If you click on one of the names you can see the scorecard. Holes 5-12 have been rearranged. The current holes 5-12 used to be 9, 10, 11, 12, 6, 7, 8, 5.


https://www.golfchannel.com/tours/pga-tour/2014/barclays/

Arrggghhhh.  Thanks for the knowledge, Eric!