The same photo is one of the cycle of pics at the top of the homepage - four guys looking across what seems like 150 yards of waist-high jungle separating them from the fairway. If designer Rees Jones has taken some account of Alister MacKenzie's principle that you should be able to play any hole with your putter, there is no sign of it on either the ad or the website's course tour.
It looks every inch the kind of hole you'd lie in bed thinking about for most of the night before if your handicap's anything south of 12. Not good thoughts, either.
What toll such a hole might take on your psyche and humour, when you have to face it most weekends and have paid an arm and a leg for the privilege, I shudder to think.
Is it really the best way to promote your course to the world, I wonder? Or are masochistic CEOs who play off 20 really that thick on the ground these days?
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On the subject of Rees Jones, he's featured here talking about the work his team have carried out on Torrey Pines, scene of this weekend's US Open.
......................................................................................"ASGCA Staff:
You mention the need to tailor the course to the advanced skills of a TOUR player. Where are these changes most significant and what specifically was altered?
Rees Jones:
The strategy of playing Torrey Pines’ South Course has been dramatically changed. We repositioned greens to bring in the natural hazards of the ocean cliff and the canyons. Most greens have alternate approaches of attack to an open entrance or to a fortified hole location."
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