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mike_malone

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Why is 1 fairway flat and 18 rumpled at TOC?
« on: April 29, 2024, 09:50:18 PM »
Just saw a drone shot from over the R+A and it struck me.
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Adam G

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Re: Why is 1 fairway flat and 18 rumpled at TOC?
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2024, 11:27:49 PM »
1 fairway is landfill.

MCirba

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Re: Why is 1 fairway flat and 18 rumpled at TOC?
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2024, 07:34:15 AM »
#1 was created by Old Tom Morris in Lido style way before Lido.
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mike_malone

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Re: Why is 1 fairway flat and 18 rumpled at TOC?
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2024, 10:37:28 AM »
The difference is striking.
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Bill Gayne

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Re: Why is 1 fairway flat and 18 rumpled at TOC?
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2024, 04:43:24 PM »
The reason for the landfill was to prevent coastal erosion. The 18th fairway originally went to the buildings on the right side. The road didn’t exist. There was quite the legal battle to build the road that Roger McStravick chronicles in his book The Road War Papers.

Ben Stephens

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Re: Why is 1 fairway flat and 18 rumpled at TOC?
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2024, 03:19:54 AM »
Joe McDonell did some great diagrams to explain this

James Reader

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Re: Why is 1 fairway flat and 18 rumpled at TOC?
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2024, 03:22:34 AM »
#1 was created by Old Tom Morris in Lido style way before Lido.


According to Roger McStravick’s books, the initial land reclamation work was done some time before Old Tom’s tenure, although he did returf the area after he returned from Prestwick.

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