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Comment from: Brandon Tucker [Member] Email
Royal County Down's 9th tee shot is most certainly blind. The photo is from atop the crest you drive over - which is one of the prettiest sights in golf.
05/24/08 @ 07:55
Comment from: Chris Baldwin [Member] Email
As far as credibility, it's BTuck in a landslide over Mon fraud high.

Agree on the joy of blind shots too. Today's architects often seem afraid of blind shots. They are way too worried about what the so-called architectual experts are going to think, terrified that their course will be branded gimmicky.

P.B. Dye's the rare exception to this and he's a maverick in a lot of ways.

I also think blind shots can help level the playing field a little between golfers like you and golfers like me Tuck. You better golfers tend to get a little freaked by the blind. Which is a joy to watch.



05/24/08 @ 17:20
Comment from: Ron Mon [Member] Email
Damnit! Why don't they tell you it's blind in photos or article? This is the only photo anyone ever sees of that hole. Who's paying for my air fare to Eyrie, so I can play the darned hole? Baldwin, everyone gets a little freaked by you, even the chipmunks and mole rats.
05/24/08 @ 21:39
Comment from: Chris Baldwin [Member] Email
So you've never been there Mon, while Tuck has, you haven't done any proper research and you still come out and question BTuck based on nothing but ignorance ...

How the hell are you allowed to teach high school students? Seriously. That's shody as shody gets. How low are the educational standards in the Buffalo area? This is how future journalism students are being guided ...

You should be bumped down to Begindergarten immediately, Mon.

Where's the PTA when you need them?

05/25/08 @ 00:30
Comment from: Ron Mon [Member] Email
Baldwin, you truly are challenged. It's a shame that you did not read my comment before writing your own pathetic bile. Can you not tell a recant? Tuck corrected, I recanted. In the meantime, at a loss for material, words, syllable, whatever, you barfed up a "so you've never been there Mon" piece of trash from the basement of your parents' home. Nice. Get some sun.
05/25/08 @ 08:32
Comment from: Brandon Tucker [Member] Email
The reason no one shows the tee shot is that photos seldom do justice to uphill topography such as hills and dunes. You need a focal point for an effective photo, and blind shots usually cannot yield this. Probably the only way the photo would work is if I had a ladder that put me about 15 feet higher an was able to capture someone teeing off in the foreground over the massive dunes. Such compositions are difficult to set up when you're walking 18, however.
05/25/08 @ 09:19
Comment from: Shanks [Member] Email
My tee shot on Prestwick #5 was a toe-job that fluttered to a stop about 10 feet below the hilltop directional marker. From the knee high whin I chopped one over the hill to about three feet. Routine par! Thank God for all of the course information from my caddie Holly, a most colorful guide who remains one of our fonder memories of the trip. When one of my buddies hit a horrible, monster slice with a left to right wind over that same big hill a few holes later, he introduced us to the British phrase "For F*** Sake!" Hearing it in context was one of the funniest moments ever. Took me a couple holes for the pain in my face to subside from all the laughter. Even 4 years later, my group of guys still use the phrase whenever somebody else (of course) in the foursome hits a world class awful shot.
05/27/08 @ 11:35
Comment from: Shanks [Member] Email
Did anybody else notice the irony of Baldy accusing Ron Monster of "shody" journalism by misspelling the word shoddy not once, but twice?

Honestly, you can't make this stuff up!
05/27/08 @ 11:43
Comment from: Brandon Tucker [Member] Email
Hey, Shanks, us true journalists have copy editors. Sadly they can't seek out all the comments we leave on blogs...

That's pretty hilarious about the Prestwick caddie. Your shot on No. 5 reminds me of my experience at "Dell". Had a 7-iron die into the wind about 50 yards short, just hacked pitching wedge over the dunes, lo and behold - tap in par!

Why don't modern architects want to give us that experience???
05/27/08 @ 11:55
Comment from: Shanks [Member] Email
I think the demise of the blind shot, especially to the green, has been brought on by the complaints of professional golfers. You will often hear commentary that none of the contestants of a particular event are complaining about how tough course conditions are because "it's all right there in front of them and they know what they have to do." One of the more famous incidents like this was the first US Open held at Hazeltine (won by Tony Jacklin). Most vociferous in his complaining was Dave Hill who called it a cow pasture. You could only imagine what those guys would say if a par three tee shot was blind.
05/28/08 @ 07:30
Comment from: Orlando Golf Blogger [Visitor] Email
I agree. There's something to be said about the building anticipation one feels when approaching a blind shot. I was playing a course down here called Cypress Creek and hit an errant drive which left me behind some freaking redwoods (well, at the time looming over me they seems as tall as redwoods) with the green on the other side. To this day, I'm not sure how I accomplished it, but I hit an 8 iron over the trees within 3 feet of the hole. The elation I felt once I realized that WAS my ball on the green was priceless :)

05/28/08 @ 16:08
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
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