Unless you own the club, why would you care if other people’s credit expires? Does it somehow go back to members? Or dos the GC celebrate they don’t have to give away $5k of apparel and gear?
It’s a gimmick based on historical precedent. Since the Old Course has a bunch, the Golden Age architects dabbled with them a bit after the turn of the century. Now they’re being brought back in vogue a bit. 21 Club is an original Alister MacKenzie design that was planned in South America but never got built. They’re now trying to mimic those plans on a plot of land outside Augusta.
Presumably they’re each big enough so that they’re not dangerous. But then it totally discounts the potential rationale that they’re more eco-friendly because the sheer square footage of greens may exceed what you’d expect on an 18 green course.
Old Toccoa in North Georgia was the first course I played with a double green, it was two oversized greens merged with different tiers and incoming shots from different directions.
just posed for the pic but the little i know of the tweeter, think he just finds it cool to have those scottish/mckenzie styled features in our corner of the world. Idk. but do think there is an argument that they're more agronomically responsible/efficient. Not that I care.
I've played a few courses where the 18th green, putting green and 1st tee are all the same green complex which is pretty cool.
I think they are Cleveland Hi Bore. You can get the halo xl or whatever other iteration they have now and they will play the same.
The golf world needs Aaron Rodgers, KVV, and Sahith all on Ayahuasca playing a round of golf at Victoria National
that was my initial thought, too. But then IrishLAX2 said Cleveland and I remembered those old launchers.
pure humble brag here, but a work event allowed me to play Fields Ranch East in Frisco this week. It was awesome. The PGA Championship will be a blast there in a few years. Some crazy long par 3s and what will be like a 550 yard par 4, but also several drivable par 4s. This is hole 15 I believe. Pic is deceiving but the green is waaaaay above the tee box and protected by more sand than 30A, half of which look like they’re inclined about 30 degrees. The risk/reward shot making will be great to watch. For the humble brag, I drove this green and somehow kept it on, played about 270 from the level 3 tees we used.
The course was immaculate. Some of the bunkers are really unique, to the point I almost wanted to try to hit out of certain spots. I don’t know much about golf course construction but I expected to see more signs of it being new. The grass and everything look like they’ve been there forever, it’s just the stuff around it (like houses) that are still being built.
The drawback with that place is I guess there will be lots of housing lining the course in the future which could detract from the vistas in the background, but hopefully they are able to obscure it some. That's probably the fastest growing region in the country as far as population growth though so no stopping the houses from going up.
They’ll have to plant a ton of trees to obscure because there are lots and houses everywhere, like you could hit a wedge from a deck to the green on multiple houses
Watched our club pro play the qualifiers for the pga championship there last year. Those two courses are incredible. That practice putting green may be bigger than our driving range. Those courses are on my golf game on the VR headset. So fun to play them.
Just played my first round in probably three years. I was expecting it to be very bad and my pre-round range session pretty much confirmed that. Somehow something changed between the range and the first tee. I was hitting everything perfectly. I was even hitting my 2 iron perfectly off the tee. If I could have putted worth a fuck, I would have shot low 80s.