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One of the courses they played last week made it likely that the only big name in the tournament won't be back next year.

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Are you being deliberately vague here?

FYI, last summer I played the Classic Club - impossibly lame name for a course - it opened last year to be the anchor course. It's going to be usurped in the next year or two by another, apparently awesome course nearby.

IIRC the other courses in the rota are old ones so maybe you're referring to CC. I saw nothing unfair on that course when I was playing it. You wouldn't like it though - they have cart paths and drink bitches. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Yeah, it is the classic club. I haven't played it, although I saw it from the road and it looked bad enough. So that is good enough to form an opinion, right? [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] I have heard it has a nice clubhouse. Something that can be said of Arnold Palmer courses in general I guess. But they built it in a bad area that gets high winds. Granted, on a windy day it can be windy everywhere, but there is a reason the area was developed later. Phil Mickelson apparently didn't know the course was owned byt he tournament and was the anchor course, and sounded like he wouldn't be back. He avoided knocking it directly tho. The hideous cart paths hardly entered anybody's mind, except when it took forever for the one guy to get relief from the drain then the path. Drains and concrete really fit nicely in the game. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Granted, desert courses aren't going to be like a great links course or anything. But the failure to regulate the ball and the commercial desire for more tents and parking and infrastructure and such has made it so old, fun golf courses are scrapped for things like the classic club of winde pointe presented by cialis or whatever. Just a small symptom of what is wrong. Wouldn't it be nice to see the best players playing the same courses with the same equipment as before. If they shoot lower than in years past wouldn't that be OK? Better than to have to build 7700 yard things with nice parking lots.