tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103690582012-01-13T00:00:50.399ZDefining Golf as somewhere between a religion and a disease for over 20 yearsthe redanmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08287781952915413013noreply@blogger.comBlogger1811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10369058.post-3385463127664209402012-01-11T18:27:00.003Z2012-01-11T18:36:04.623Z

Starting a treatise on ratings and ranking, some introduction and history. There has been for some time quite the buzz about them in the US especially as there is a lot of belt-notching that goes on. Some folks, especially business types like to post the pins in their GOLF Magazine pegboards for USA and World 100’s. Others truly love the variety the game’s playing field has and indeed there is

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Hereby resolved to be more productive.Axiomatically, Mud Golf is better than no golf but just barely. There has been a very wet 2011 here in the eastern US and the courses with a history of poor maintenance practices and foresight have fared the worst. Boston Golf Club fared extremely well under Rodney's hand, he is one of the very best.2011 real golf ended 2 holes after this, it was much darker

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It is the best, isn't it?

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Here's #10 from the end of the fairwayAnother view of the Principal's SnoutFuller view of #18Keep checking back

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All the rage, causing such a stir that there will absolutely be:A Joint Announcement/Statement within 2-3 weeks from USGA as regards anchored putters. Look for it. Many have commented since it is now such a buzz prompting this. At the USGA level it will be from Executive, not Rules, therefore no "change in the rules" as recently released.

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1 Three Creek 521 10 Mae’s 4122 Rushmore 418 11 Petrified 1883 Redan 430 12 Gate 4304 Wizard’s Cap 438 13 Knuckle Bucket 4875 Shipwreck 317 14 Big Sky 4436 Wild Turkey 165 15 Coyote Trail 5607 Penniman Hill 460 16 Principal’s Nose 3418 Bent Pine 232 17 American Chestnut 5859 Geronimo 458 18 Stonewall 195Par 5 #15 Coyote TrailHere's a rare look at Boston Golf Club.

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1 New Leaf 10 Eden 2 Sahara 11Woods3 Road 12 Hilltop4 Highlands 13 St. Christopher’s5 Biarritz 14 Double Plateau6 Punchbowl 15 Dell7 Bandon 16 Ravine8 Pond 17 Short9 Redan 18

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I've had an obvious layoff for a while, but I haha entered the PGA FedEx Cup playoff scenario yesterday with a round at Plainfield CC - site of this year's Barclay's Championship. Poor Plainfield suffered form about 6X "Normal" rainfall due to human-induced climate change (yeah, right) and was not her usual self. PCC was however universally loved as opposed to this weeks Cog Hill Tempest of

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In August a return to Bandon Resort yielded a fresh look. I had only been to Bandon with a group previously and this time it was a small family group, just 3 and for one night with a 4th non-golfer. My regular readers know how picky I am. Bandon Dunes is America's Best Resort. Nothing comes close. After the monumental disappointment that was Kohler earlier this year and with time to reflect,

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At least in the USA it was a non-TV event with Women's Football loss to Japan garnering much higher ratings. Ah, the all-coveted ratings and advert index.This was an Open Championship for the true golfer, one who understands that 62*, off and on rain and 30 knot winds are golf. Darren Clarke is everyman, he won for everyone, has not actually drunk a thing from the Claret Jug as of this writing

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In a move to wean myself from other internet golf locations, look for me to have more to say. I've got the photos for Kohler on another computer so look back soon.The Open Championship Week is my favorite personal week in golf. It is the world's tournament, too much of world golf is still in the USA although the news of the Women making the Evian a Major is good news this week. Even though a

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As bad as things are, it can always be worse.Golf is having a bit of an identity crisis right now. When Tiger Woods came along if there was ever a doubt prior then - at that time the world of golf embraced the long ball to great exclusion. The ball has gotten out of control, at least coupled with the modern driver. At any rate Golf has become very closely equivalent to Men's Professional golf

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Everyone seems to be worried about the assaults on Par at Congressional ...2012 O2012 is to be at Olympic Club - a droll course capable of producing interesting winners. As a former member of the California Golf Club of San Francisco, whenever we had some silly little tournament, my roommate Mark and I used to go over and Play O Lake. It had the history but absolutely nothing on the Cal Club.

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People are whining on about Congressional not hosting a REAL USGA Open (That's the way it goes) but it was the same for everyone. It was dominant for Rory.What's nice about Rory is-Simultaneous presence of self-assurance and humility-Tons of skills-No apparent weaknesses-A really solid human being - mature yet still a kid-He appears to be enjoying himself whilst he plays and winsAnd perhaps he

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Kohler, WIPartI - General Details, Irish and Meadow Valley CoursesAfter years and years of wondering whether or not Kohler really has a top 5 Modern Course and three courses in the top 200 Modern according to GolfWeek magazine, the Mrs. And I finally took a trip to the lovely “America’s Dairyland” known as Wisconsin to see for ourselves. I can say that one of those two statements is true, one

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John Paul Newport, one of Golf's weakest writers in the Weekend Edition of Wall Street Journal opined that we should find an easier game to play and gave several silly ideas listed in the linked article. There is one and one alone good way in there and it was not given its due.Important facts in A) Growing the gameB) Keeping players1) Play a golf course you can enjoy. a)You are not good enough

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Royal New Kent ** Designed by the late Mike Strantz who cut his teeth in the Fazio organization. Known for his artistic eye, painting holes before he built them built a Tour de Force in the Eastern suburbs of Richmond, VA. I've had my experiences with Strantz's courses and never thought I'd give one **, but I did, far and away my favourite Strantz. I'm going on architectural grounds here. The

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Recently renowned Oak Hill East was merely my 4th out of four favourite Ross Courses on a special visit. Oak Hill has transmogrified into an indistinct USGA favoured course with amazingly homogenous rough, trees and all that sort of thing one expects from a US Open. Too demanding to the point of losing architectural character and features, it is a course for a few. It is a wonderful golf course,

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Due to a very fortunate turn of events, your redanman has willingly visited six of Donald Ross's fine works this season to date. The breadth and depth of his work is something to behold. By my count of the 399 courses listed by Dr. Bradley Klein in his Excellent work Discovering Donald Ross (2nd Edition release imminent) I am right at sixty courses played. I have played others attributed but

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I was fortunate enough to catch a break in the weather for a round at Rancho Santa Fe in California after the AAOS this year. I have to chuckle because my friend (who is also my teacher and a Golf Digest Top 100 fitter with a green grass range was "Apologetic" that the course had not been over-seeded this year and it was not green. REnee and I noted that that mattered not a whit as we are

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A really nice feller, well, a kid actually, almost 25, who is my neighbor (sort of) here and a frequent playing partner ought to be very very happy that I didn't play with him after all today. The weather report has been dicey at best for today all week, the professor had a cheap-O tee time at Lederach for four to play at 13.40 today and the redanboy and I pussied out. I don't know about him,

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I've given a bit of thought to the concept of milieu lately. In a way some clubs have a milieu or place away about them that is their own. Pine Valley is perhaps the ultimate natural milieu. In its humble New Jersey pine forest it is the ultimate place away without any unnecessary doo-dads nor egotism about it. It wears as well as the old club blazer with stories to tell that I first referred

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Way InThe Holes1 Atlantic 10 Mercer Hill2 Long 11 Trott's3 Eden 12 Hillside4 Mangrove 13 Biarritz5 Cape 14 Leven6 Brow 15 Punch Bowl7 Short 16 Lookout8 Valley 17 Redan9 Sound 18 HomeMid-Ocean is one of those timeless places that are all too rare – as good or better as you

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The View inspiring the quoteand the hole on the side of the cliffsBermuda’s Golf scene has undergone a few changes over the past couple of years and today I feature Port Royal as it was announced that a new arrangement has been finalised so that the PGA Grand Slam of golf will remain on that blessed little Island for another two years. For those of you that have never been and especially those

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The Birth of the Birdie. In 1903 Ab(ner) Smith played a fine shot into the then 12th hole at Atlantic City Country Club. That shot was laid dead as to yield a score of one under the stern par of four. That green today exits as a practice just north of the 18th green. The plaque commemorating the event has been moved to its proper place from where it had been kept adjacent to the current 9th

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Until I have cleared up the Asian Porn sites posting comments on my blog, I will keep "Comments Disabled". Please e-mail me if you wish. I really do want to enable comments, but I don't want any porn stuff.I want to clarify a misunderstanding that I think occurred.I am in no way was knocking Bandon, it is by far the most interesting architecture trip in the USA for most good courses at a resort

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Writing coming. I'm sorry that the photos that I promised have not materialized. I'll see what I can do.

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In the far western part of NJ, the Architects Golf Club authored by Steven Kay (with a consultant’s credit given to Golf Digest’s Ron Whitten) is a tribute course to a host of mostly ODG’s or “Old Dead Guys” as they are affectionately known to golf architecture aficionados. The holes are routed in a more or less chronological sequence starting with a tribute to Old Tom Morris at Hole #1 to Robert

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There are those that pooh-poo the creation of lists that reflect an average opinion of variously qualified "Raters" to create "Rankings". Golf Digest has been infamous for starting that process with their "200 Toughest Courses" (based upon Rating & Slope) which morphed into Golf Digest's Top 100 USA - America's Oldest Ranking or something like that - massaged by "Tradition" among other things.

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Enjoying my Nespresso Ristreto this morning, I was thinking ...As the season winds down and we get to thinking retrospectively about play this past several months, the most glaring point that comes to me from this year is that I made a trip to Bandon Resort and I also made a trip to Scotland. The Bandon trip included a classic NW US course with evergreen-lined fairways and a Consensus "Golf

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Golf Digest's Ron Whitten wrote about innovative courses and listed all of his favorites. Then he ranted on how there have been nothing in the way of innovations in golf course architecture for 100 years or so. I have this to say as follows ...Golf Architecture (Golf is a battle game):Golf is played on a series or collection of holes.There are core design concepts offering various degrees of

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reserved

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After all is said and done, good entertainment came through in the end. The drama of the wait was nearly interminable and hard on the capacity of nearly all TiVOs. I would think that the Golf Channel ought to get the footage and edit it to watchable fare and run it over and over for a while as from all the fans I know, it seems no one has seen it all.Some quick hits:USACorey Pavin left us all

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why Europe won.

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Americans are generally slow players at the game of golf; better – more deliberate players being the culprits and Ladies unjustly receiving the blame. That isn’t far from the truth as virtually nothing is more intolerable than following four single digit players grinding out their match. Those Americans who have had been players for 20 years or more and especially those with at least 40 years

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Charles Banks was generally considered the less-talented member of the trio yet his distinctive style can hardly be called “lite”. He likely had little of his own ideas to input as he was a construction man and in fact once the oeuvre was created in the first five years of their work as a design team, little else was added by anyone. Banks cannot be faulted in any way for lack of creativity.

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Why I am a golfer in 100 words or lessI am a golfer because it is a pastime for a lifetime, somewhere between religion and disease. It is a microcosm of life, continually challenging the body and psyche to different degrees in a satisfying, encouraging way yet never allowing a full measure of satisfaction nor dismay. Allowing us to frequently start anew it refreshes and seduces as no other.

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Americans are by and large fascinated if not obsessed with lists and of course "The Best". I've rated courses for years, contributed to lists and defined groups of my own, finding it hard to say that course A is better than B if they are of similar merit. Top 100 lists for the world and the US more or less come out reasonably correct in the wash if many people contribute to them and biases go

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Slow play is killing golf. Fast greens breed slow play, was Oakmont the Mother of slow play?Not necessarily, but very few of the women (as I suppose most handicap visiting players of Oakmont) had any sort of feel for what was really needed. One can even say that with the tilted flat portions of greens at Oakmont requiring pinpoint precision of shots that not only was Oakmont guilty of

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Since nobody pays me I'm slow to get things done here, but I have had a few very nice visits this year already. Ridgewood (Championship)The Ridgewood Club (already detailed in depth at redanman.com) is now playing the Championship Course and the "Cart Nine" on a regular basis which is a grand idea. Even with the Championship routing the cart nine has marvelous holes. Not a fan generally of 27-

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Old Macdonald is truly the completion of Charles Blair Macdonald’s dream. It brings to life for the everyman golfer his Gift : Golf. National Golf Links of America on the remote east end of Long Island was intended to show Americans what a proper golf course was – but in its first 100 years only a privileged few were able to do so. Access to America’s finest golf courses is so much more

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A sign of things to come. A few of us pre-opening were rather privileged to receive opening day medals.As with all the courses at Bandon, Phil the town Barber, in keeping with the everyman spirit will be the FIRST official golfer to put the peg in the earth and ball in the air at Old Macdonald.Sometime in the next few days as play opens June 1st, pre-opening play has already started for select

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Bandon Dunes, America's greatest seaside golf resort? Is it the best overall? Boy oh boy it is a pain in the rear to get to - a long drive from Portland. Connecting from Portland is tough as the return flight from Bandon to Portland is 0600 and that's just way too early. Report of more convenient connectors through SFO are a welcome addition. To be honest, the drive back was way less a bother

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Well, Tiger's coming back (Finally) and I think I am glad as we have to get over it and get on with our unimportant lives. I've no love for Tiger, but I really thought about it and I really don't have much love for professional golf as a spectator sport as most people see it. IFriday, I was sitting there watching Doral on the Tivo about 45 mins. behind TGC's afternoon broadcast, enjoying

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Golf is not a hot weather game. Never meant to be.I'm not sure that it's even a warm weather pastime. Perhaps those Scottish gents in their three-piece woolies being all gentlemanly weren't necessarily dressing like fine gents as much as they were trying to keep from freezing off their arseies. They also gave their used clothing to their caddies who piled them on layer over layer to keep warm (

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Links magazine with their monthly teaser e-mail posts such an option. Surely there is not a single answer nor can one combine GP's "criteria". Sad digression of this magazine from the days when my friend Owen headed up adverts and the magazine really sang.From George Peper, I suppose ... (and the answers PB = Pebble Beach, PD = Pacific DunesRound 1: If I had just one more round PBRound 2:

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Been in the desert, Palm Springs, in fact, kicking off the new year with some fellow GolfWeek Magazine Panelists. Very refreshing to get away from the winter of weather's discontent hereon the Eastern Seaboard as we await our third Nor'easter, second in a week. Gee Whiz. I hadn't touched a club in almost two months and it was astounding how difficult it was to get back any endurance, but

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What can one say about Pine Valley that "It is the number one golf course and club in the USA and the World" doesn't say? It is a very private place, a Sanctuary, a place where religion and disease mingle to a perfect emulsion. I have been very fortunate to be a guest of this wonderful place for almost 25 years now due to a very old, very dear friend. I have found it to be the golfiest place

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An unconfirmed report from Hank Haney notes that Tiger's ED Doctor said that his lips would be stronger than ever after the sutures. Will now be able to overtake Jack's record 18 Majors by February.Gee, I wish I didn't have to talk to the Florida Highway Patrol if I didn't want to.WSJ reported basically that Golf was nothing without Tiger, it existed before and will exist long after he is gone.

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This club requested privacy rather strongly.

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Some places I really respect their ethos of privacy.The guard was very stoic, some might say wooden ....a redan that is not a redan!Less well-known ...More soHere there is a history of respect for history.

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There is a wonderful little Muni in Boston that I promised the locals that I wouldn't drive everyone there, so I'll just say that for a muni, it's a peach.Designed by Donald Ross and maintained by benign neglect, they have a super who worked at TCC and has done a great job with the greens, the fairways & tees are fine and the land is beautiful.Here's a few photos:a super par 4wonderful par 3 with

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Their blogOne TeeI was fortunate to visit the Bay Club at Mattapoisett near fall River, MA. Brad Faxon is a fine putter, but he is also a tour player. Tour players really like fair and putt for a living. Fast smooth true greens are fair, that characterizes the greens at Bay Club. It is one of the very best conditioned courses I have played in the past several years. I believe that this is

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The bag visits the Red. Here's the 18th of Black from hole #4 of Red. Bethpage the RedBethpage is more closely laid out and operated in concept more similarly to the Links at St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland than any other golf facility in the United States. There is the one great course that you need a bit of help securing a tee time and several other supporting courses of varying quality making

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It’s now been over a month since merely driving for a less than two week period in Scotland and I still feel like I’m the one driving abroad. Perhaps that’s five separate episodes now with narrower lanes, kerbs everywhere, smaller trucks/lorries, smaller average vehicle size and my beloved traffic circles that have enforced this change. Perhaps Scotland has the more polite drivers, but I

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I had a couple of Lehigh Virgins out today and we could hardly have had a better day for it. Greens running about 10.5, maybe a club + wind, not too many leaves in the way yet, no one in front or behind, Joe took all the photos so I just played. We'll look for his photos to appear. He's good behind a camera so something for the lounge to look forward to. Not even close to a lost ball, under

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America’s Championship was played at the Black in just horrendous conditions in June, 2009. It was the people's or common man’s Open to the regulars at the Black. Somewhat marginally better conditions were present in June, 2002 for the first USGA Open Championship played at a course “anyone can play” – in this case anyone who lives in New York State and the few who otherwise get lucky. Bethpage

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I have quite a bit to show, but a scheissesturm has arrived and I must help sort several things out. Lundin Links, Kilmarnock (Barasssie), Panmure, Glasgow Gailes and my take on Royal Troon all on hold for a little bit. I'll do my best ASAP.

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The Penna GA just had the Art Wall Major for 45 + year old players and I had looked forward all season to this event. I have no excuses for a laughable putting session just not being able to find a way to hit short putts on-line in the wind (I never practice and certainly not at Lehigh with our bad greens) on fast greens so I usually accommodate pretty well or well, occasionally not putt so very

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This surely must be the finest eating and drinking establishment at a public access golf course in the world (apologies to Mike Vegis at Kiawah), The Ocean Course does NOT have this:The Torrance Course at St. Andrews Bay, I must admit that my expectations were low going in, but I was rather wrong. A National Tourist's Office Day, the allowance of choice of tees and a set-up for a Mercedes-Benz

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Long a believer of doing good things for planet Earth and its citizens because it is the right thing to do, not because we are somehow influencing climate permanently, temporarily or even at all, I recycled in Scotland, noted the relative absence of plastic bags with great glee and had a very green car. One must wonder why we are farting around with hybrids at all on our streets until we

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My copy taking a break before going upstairs ...Darius Oliver's Planet Golf USA has finally arrived. My pre-release copy arrived just yesterday and I've been through about half of it. In it young Mr. Oliver shows his considerable writing skill and architectural divining. Astute observations include seeing through the boost that perennial USGA and PGA of America favorites such as Olympic Lake

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Been on Holiday and you know what that means. The New Turnberry Hotel, driving the Mercedes 1.8L diesel B-Classe over 750 miles, a tour of more than 10 never-before visited Scottish golf Courses of all ages and eating perhaps too many meat pies across Scotland. Crossing the Brig O'Doon, visiting Robert Burns at the cemetery, playing in a two-ball 90% of the time and getting a passing grade from

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Anyone else have one?Thanks to Gordon, the London Golfer for the shot!

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Am I a fan of the FedEx Cup? Naw, I think it's silly because it's not a real playoff. In a real playoff everyone starts anew, that's the whole point. Until they fix that, it's going to be second rate. I also don't think that golf lends itself to "Playoffs" after a "Season" very well. That said, we have one of the more interesting experiments in golf to watch on the television this week. I'll

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Well, it was closer than the final score and Michelle Wie bloomed, I'd call that a complete and total success. More about Ms. Wie later, but I must say that I have always said that she should pave her own way and she had the heavy equipment out this past weekend. I truly am happy for her. She is finally in a circumstance to which she placed herself and earned everything that is now coming to

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I watched the final round of the 2009 PGA, my least favorite major. I can tell you it was great for golf. Golf for us, not for the pampered professionals. Part of that is that golf can come back to the rank and file golfer around whom the game is truly built, not the professional circus that is the men's US PGA Tour which is irrelevant to nearly all of us. That is an entertainment venue, a

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Coming to a close, a few things to say and address especially slooooooooooow play.Except for a smattering of little things later, the big events mostly in August are complete. Not exactly a huge Tom Fazio fan when it comes to golf design, I am not one to throw out the baby with the bathwater. USGA Senior Amateur qualifying for the GAP took place at Galloway National yesterday with a field of

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I just played the Pennsylvania Senior Open at Huntsville in Shavertown, PA (no it's not near Beavertown). hahaha Now get your mind out of the gutter!My total plays now at about 10, so I think I met the C.B. familiarity test.Tournament played at a wet 6650 or so. Casually I play it at 6900, not much difference between those tees for me. 7200 is beastly, be very talented or leave your ego at

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Look for:www.bunkerfetish.comFor several years I have owned this domain that I have to date never developed. My purchasing it had grown out my observation that some Golf Architecture Cognoscenti are focused on bunker appearance to an inappropriate degree. The measure of importance placed upon bunker appearance to these connoisseurs is such that a course of less merit with a certain look of

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As a COF (Certified Old Fart in the golf world that's over 55), one gets to play Senior Amateur events. Occasionally you get a dog but you sometimes get real nuggets. Best of the year will be Philadelphia CC and CC of Scranton with not-so-bad at all Galloway National and a notch below to Huntsville.Philadelphia CC is a Flynn course, one of many in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania. Many of

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North ShoreI'll have more, I'm never finished .... I promise I'll have more. Remember, I do this because I love to, not because I get paid.

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He needed a Watson Par on the last on Sunday but came up short. We started calling any non-routine par, but especially one out of the khack or off a tree or out of a bunker a Watson Par. We marked the card with a capital W, the guys in Chicago I played with and I - in honor of our Tom. That's how we played! Oh how we wished that he had one more on Sunday 19 July, 2009. So many hearts were

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I don't have any photos of this one and I also don't give a Craig Ferguson's "Rat's Ass". I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care. Hazeltine? OFFICIAL WEBSITE HERE I have long wanted to see the US PGA dumped for the Australian Open Championship as the fourth Men's Professional Golf Major. Such a group of courses to choose from and another set of fast and firm venues.I mean now

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The Open Championship that gave us all such joy failed us at the last hole, the penultimate shot actually. Tom Watson played nearly every shot, certainly every full shot with a preternatural calm that was present even on the approach onto the 72nd green. He would make up his mind, swing the club sans any hystrionics modern fans have become accustomed to; there, just leaning the shaft of the

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It has gone beyond and into the surreal, transcending our sport as one Tom Watson is where he wants to be and has a 36-hole plan that he is half done with. Suspending believability we golfers are witnessing such serenity only an old golfer can appreciate. Memories cannot be imparted to one, each must live them and with the depths of those memories golfer Tom Watson is on the virtual precipice of

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Turnberry Ailsa Course is a very popular links course, often quoted by many in lists of favorites, often top 3-5. I cannot say that it holds such a place for me, but I understand its appeal. It is full of views and lovely, less quirky, more fair golf holes than perhaps any other links course. I won't get into that too deeply as that is not the point of a competition, but the play is rather

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It is this week, July 6-12, 2009. As I have noted earlier, one cannot call this a "Strong course" anymore just a "strong Fazio course" using strong in the Fazio fashion. I'm getting started. There are a few interesting attempts (misguided a bit at least twice) by the USGA to be creative. Comments along the way ...First tee shot (regular ladies tees, over 100 yards up from 549 used for

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Tuesday Night, June 16, just before the USGA Open that didn't ever seem to end, The Metropolitan Golf Writers Association held its annual awards dinner in Greenwich, CT at the Hyatt. I took the Mrs. because the honoree was Louise Suggs, one of the original founders of the Women's Professional Golf Association in 1950, one of thirteen including the great legend that actually was Babe Didricksen

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Mike E. and I racked up the miles on Long Island, dining Italian per Mike's choice. No complaints there from me.Now, still coming, Gil Hanse's Tallgrass on Long Island.But for now a few new from North ShoreNumber 10, Eden at North ShoreEleven, a great piece of land15 green at North Shore

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Now, for the third time the redanmans have won a Husband-Wife club championship. This time certainly without their best play; scraping it around the final score of 76 (6 hole scores minimum of each player) was good enough.Old photo, sadly we did not win at The Jubilee Course.

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Just arrived, here's the proof.First round with these at LCC was Pro as partner, tied first gross, won $100 in the shop.

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Found on the Internet:The Club is committed to providing you with a unique golf experience. Toward that end, it is important that you abide by our policies. We have very few rules, but we are not tolerant of anyone that disrespects those that we do have.Guests must be accompanied by a member at all times and should not arrive more than 30 minutes prior to their member host. When the member

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Ahhhh, A.W. Tillinghast again. Never one to be pigeon-holed he in 1917 built three courses - North Shore on long Island, Somerset Hills, the proverbial home course of the USGA Executives and Pleasantville, NY. This according to Tillinghast.net's resources although North Shore has some evidence I have yet to review that he may have built a course called Hermitage in Virginia that same year. I

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GAP matches, the gentlemanly practice of the Golf Association of Philadelphia every spring. Formally known as the Suburban League, it is a phenomenally successful and fun practice of pitting 12 players from each club that enters against 12 opponents from another club. Six players compete at home and six players away. Each fourball on each course (Three at each paired club) play two single

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Good news: I made an eagle yesterday on #11 at Lehigh. After a perfectly placed drive I hit an 190 yard (downhill, downwind - before I get a random steroid check) 8-iron to a foot and a half.Bad news: I missed the 8-iron for Albatross. Hit the lip, didn't go in, but at least it was on the high side ....... from the left side of the top of the hill, close to the second stake from the left.I've

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Logos are kind of fun, they are immediately recognizable or completely obscure. I wrote an article about shirts a while back and I was going to update it and show some fabrics, details and the like and have put together a few photos, not all ready for updating the article. I did however take a few favorite logo photos along the way and here are a few. And here's the best golf shirt money can

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Anyone in the Northeastern USA yesterday know what the weather was like in the a.m. and p.m. There was however, a perfect window available.

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The redanman sends out big birthday wishes to the Emperor himself one Tommy N.A long time friend he is a prince among men and a birthday In-N-Out is on order for him.the man then (2000)and now (2008)

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Hey I lied. Had to go back for a meeting, but visited a couple of places as time allowed.A newly re-done ChiChi R and Johnny Miller course called Badlands had been singled out, but it was beautiful, thoughtless pasture pool and it wasn't cheap. Target golf in the extreme, it is the ideal for some, but I think this kind of golf is abhorrent to every thing I believe in. Now run by Troon golf,

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Having fun with Oscar coming on Sunday. Over at Media Critic I have the "Will win" guesses and "ought to win" opinions. Slow golf time, what can I say.

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I really hope that money doesn't kill the spirit of golf in the USA in the next fitful 18 - 36 months. Yes, I believe it will be that serious for that long. No, we don't have to worry about the Sand Hills and the Old Sandwiches and the Friar's Heads of the world but there are great courses in serious exposure. One of my favorite low end places is Apache Stronghold in nowhere, AZ, 2 hours east

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Just busy.Northeast weather has been so bad this January, I have thought little about golf. I've been crosswording more seriously as I found a neat blog for the NYT. This in and of itself is not going to keep me away, but my time spent studying movies (and not even reviewing them on my Media Blog!) and a few extra trips back and forth to Philadelphia more account for it.

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The lovely California Golf Club of San FranciscoI belonged to CGCSF when I lived in SF and the bay area. I went around earlier in 2008 and indeed the transformation was nothing short of brilliant. The course was always good, now it is better, but I think there might be some cocaine in the bunkers based upon how much some have said about how the new bunkers are so wonderful. Trust me, the course

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Geoff S. has on the header of his blog today:Golfers who carry ball retrievers are gatherers, not hunters. Their dreams are no longer of conquest, but only of salvage.DAVID OWENBalderdash. Rooting for logo balls sometimes makes slow play tolerable escpecially in circumstances where complaining about it is NOT and option. Also, since ProV1 balls cost ₤1 each in the U.K., all my found balls now go

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Famously introduced to the world in the War on the Shore Ryder Cup, an American gem of any age. (Watch this space, KIC is now completed)

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