Click thumbnail to see its full glory. The credit goes to Jamovenkilt.'The award is given annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to golf and golf course architecture.
“George Peper is one of the most knowledgeable voices in golf, respected for his prolific journalistic and publishing career and his respect for and knowledge of golf courses,” [Steve Forrest, President of the American Society of Golf Course Architects] says. “He continues as editor-at-large for Links Magazine and lives in St. Andrews. I will be honored to present this award to a man who has devoted his career to understanding and promoting golf and golf courses.”'
Introducing a great 'eye candy' blog - Great Canadian Golf Holes - and I use the term in its most complimentary sense. Enjoy.
- "70 percent semi-natural" - think St Andrews
- "The other 30 percent of the course can be manicured to accommodate grassy slopes and dips to keep the posterity of the game intact. Let's face it — if you're using every inch of the golf course, you probably don't need additional challenges between you and the hole. The idea is to put the manicured sections in the areas where people are most likely to be playing." - think Pine Valley
- "It seems to me that golfers must get bored playing on courses that are all groomed to look the same" and "...ditch the carts someday and walk on over to a REAL golf course." - think, maybe this Lindsay Wood is more in tune with golf than she realises.
"Oregon State University to launch professorship in turf management"
I nominate Tony Soprano.
I can understand why the doubtless-patriotic staff at Beau Chene Country Club might not want to disclose too many details when a military helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing on the club's golf course."Beau Chene employees would not comment on the specific hole or the extent to which the unexpected event disrupted play."Either slow play is a really sensitive issue in Louisiana, or else Beau Chene didn't want it known that the pilot swaggered off the green on their signature hole, talking about "the easiest approach I ever had."
Interesting thing about the controlled explosions going on beneath WinterStone Golf Course: everyone seems to be complaining about them except the golfers. This, from the club's own website:"Golfers at WinterStone Golf Course in Independence, Missouri get more than a great round of golf ... they get an adventure. That's because every afternoon, around 3:00, they hear and feel a rumbling from underground, as miners blast the limestone that will be hauled out of the ground for processing. Thunder Time is truly exciting."
18th Cholla course, We-Ko-Pa Golf Club (Radisson Fort McDowell Resort & Casino)
18th Sandia Golf Club (Sandia Resort & Casino)
18th Reflection Bay (Casino MonteLago)"I firmly believe that over-bunkering American courses may do more to dampen enthusiasm by making play too irksome than any modern ball of long flight may ever work evil by making play too easy...One of the worst of all the ills is ''Bunkeritis," the mad desire of some green committees to have men groping around eighteen holes is sand, straining their glazed and agonized eyes for a bit of fairway."
AW Tillinghast, Golf Illustrated, July 1928
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"I can't play a track like Waialae anyhow. It's too easy. I know I'm supposed to like it because one of those respected architects designed it. Seth Raynor is who it was. I know about Seth Raynor because I like to read golf history...
"To me, Seth Raynor's best work is the Country Club of Fairfield in Connecticut. I once did an outing up there for socialites. It's short but covered up with charm. But you can't join Fairfield, I hear, unless you've got a photo of your granddaddy sitting on Queen Victoria's knee.
"Waialae's another story. Not even interesting. A diddy-bump layout with a bunch of tall skinny palms on every hole and pineapples for tee markers. Somebody's idea of atmosphere...
"Guys shoot fifteen and twenty under on it for four rounds. Somebody's always coming in with a 63 when I've played my ass off to get in with a 68. Hell, Julius Claudius even shot 60 on it a few years ago. Julius Claudius is what some of us call Davis Love III, that Roman numeral chasing his name around."
From Dan Jenkins' novel, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist
can't believe I've just read about a groundbreaking ceremony for a new course that apparently warranted no fewer than 20 accompanying photographs on the course's website.
