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Great track, like most sand belt tracks has lost to much tea tree over the years and now plays a bit short but still a great track , I played an event there years ago and I reckon they were as faster greens as I’ve putted on at the time.
A couple mates got an invite to Cathedral Something near Alexandra , Norman designed track , very very good apparently
Still trying to work out if that wasn't the best conditioned course I've ever played. The greens were quite slow but with that compacted bent grass and short cutting and dry weather, you could see them getting insanely quick.
Yep. It's actually very short now. Interestingly they have the 2022 Australian Open. They'll have to convert a couple of par 5's to par 4's and maybe even the par 4 1st to a par 3 as well in order to protect the place from being eaten alive. We played off the very back tees on most holes and it was still very short.
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Probably. And maybe the 8th as well.
We've had almost all tea tree removed and a stack of trees as part of the $5m Tom Doak renovations. Looks absolutely amazing. Back to its original design. The tea tree is being replaced by long growing native fescue. But of course you have the whiney old members complaining about the rough. You tell them "Well, would you rather have a lost ball in the tea tree or a tough shot out of the native fescue ?" which incidentally, looks great. Bit like they do at Shinnecock and many links courses. (You can see it in the foreground of the picture below.)
After you say that, they have this puzzled look on their face and then try to think of something else to complain about.
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Probably. And maybe the 8th as well.
We've had almost all tea tree removed and a stack of trees as part of the $5m Tom Doak renovations. Looks absolutely amazing. Back to its original design. The tea tree is being replaced by long growing native fescue. But of course you have the whiney old members complaining about the rough. You tell them "Well, would you rather have a lost ball in the tea tree or a tough shot out of the native fescue ?" which incidentally, looks great. Bit like they do at Shinnecock and many links courses.
After you say that, they have this puzzled look on their face and then try to think of something else to complain about.
That's probably the signature hole. And maybe the 2nd and 18th below.
You can see how Doak wanted fairways and tees and greens to be visible with one another again. Its awesome. Pictures don't do it justice. Not a long track, but at a par 70 it can still play to almost 7000 yards which is pretty good. Importantly, you still need to have the right line in from the fairway to get close to a lot of pins which sit on uber fast, sloping greens.
65% up an down from the sand, Fowler , Norman , Brightside best 3 I’ve seen from the sand
Right.
Yeah, well Burnside is probably including his 4BBB and ambrose numbers in that figure.
Looks very serene....... Appears the Catholics have all stayed home to eat fish!
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