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#122
07-22-2007, 06:48 PM
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Re: Biggest Golf Pet Peeve
I don't like it when people get all huffy about the guy waiting to hit the green in 2 on a par five. Of course he's rarely gonna do it (he's not a pro), but if he can hit it far enough, it's better than hitting it up on the other group once in a while.
Just seems like one of the things you just have to wait for. 
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#123
07-22-2007, 06:53 PM
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Re: Biggest Golf Pet Peeve
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I think this is a geographical thing. If you are going to "play golf" it screams amateur to me. I always say I'm going to golf. [/ QUOTE ] are you from the north?
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#124
07-22-2007, 07:05 PM
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Re: Biggest Golf Pet Peeve
Sorry, you don't get to second guess Alister Mackenzie becaue you hit a poor shot or don't like the hole. It is a 320 yard hole and you missed your approach in the wrong place. Then you blew a flop shot. you should be happy you get to play there and if you haven't you might want to read some things about Mackenzie. I mean you are playing a golf course done by one of the best architects ever. Now you can complain a little if the greens are too fast for the contour designed into them. Some old greens were not meant to be that fast. Contour is interesting and people's desire for excessively fast greens can lead to less interesting golf when architects design flatter greens to accomodate the desired green speeds. I do envy your chance to play there, enjoy it. Did the renovation in the '90's do much to the hole, do you know?
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#126
07-22-2007, 07:22 PM
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Re: Biggest Golf Pet Peeve
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Sorry, you don't get to second guess Alister Mackenzie becaue you hit a poor shot or don't like the hole. It is a 320 yard hole and you missed your approach in the wrong place. Then you blew a flop shot. you should be happy you get to play there and if you haven't you might want to read some things about Mackenzie. I mean you are playing a golf course done by one of the best architects ever. Now you can complain a little if the greens are too fast for the contour designed into them. Some old greens were not meant to be that fast. Contour is interesting and people's desire for excessively fast greens can lead to less interesting golf when architects design flatter greens to accomodate the desired green speeds. I do envy your chance to play there, enjoy it. Did the renovation in the '90's do much to the hole, do you know? [/ QUOTE ] I think they changed the green in the early 90s, it used to be different. I'm not exactly sure what they did to the hole. I am a student there right now, so I can play for very cheap ($25/round). I'm not complaining about the course at all, as it is a very nice golf course, but that hole just irks me because when the pin is up top, you either hit a near perfect shot or have a very difficult up and down for par.
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#128
07-22-2007, 07:47 PM
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Re: Biggest Golf Pet Peeve
"but that hole just irks me because when the pin is up top, you either hit a near perfect shot or have a very difficult up and down for par."
Sounds like excellent design. I mean to get a par or birdie hitting a shot from say 60-120 yards, it is OK the shot is demanding. If it were on a 450 yard hole you might have more of a basis to not like it. And think about the design that allows you a tough up and down, the chance to recover. Better than just fronting the green with a big lake or something.
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#129
07-22-2007, 07:51 PM
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Re: Biggest Golf Pet Peeve
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Put another one on the board. Unfair golf holes. I would consider an unfair hole as one that punishes shots that aren't perfect. Such a hole occured yesterday at the University of Michigan golf course. Hole #6 is a very short par 4 (320 yards). The green looks something like this. The green represents the pin position, the red is where my ball landed, the blue is where my ball ended up. I was then forced to drop off the green to chip up, hit my flop shot a bit short and into the bunker, and made 6. After my ball landed about 20 feet right of the pin. I think that greens such as this are unfair for the fact that they give you no safe play to take. The course designer can make pins as tucked as they want to, but they should leave a bail out area where if you hit 2 solid shots and 2 solid putts you make par and move on.  [/ QUOTE ] Why can't you just putt?
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