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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2021 14:08:14 GMT
TPC Boston
Known as one of the best traditional golf course designers in the country, Gil Hanse of Hanse Golf Course Design, Inc. collaborated with PGA TOUR player consultant Brad Faxon on a re-design of TPC Boston’s already proven layout in 2007 designed to make the course blend more naturally with its New England setting.
A protégé of noted golf course designer Tom Doak, Hanse was the recipient of the prestigious William Frederick Dreer Award during his studies at Cornell, which allowed him to spend a year in Great Britain studying the earliest examples of golf course architecture. While there, he interned with the firm of Hawtree and Son, the oldest continuously practicing golf course architectural firm in the world. These experiences had a profound influence on Hanse’s design philosophy, which focuses on preserving and protecting the integrity of the land, maximizing the natural characteristics of the terrain and minimizing human impact on the landscape during construction.
Hanse became only the third American architect to build a course in Scotland when he created Craighead Golf Links, which opened in 1998. Other notable designs include South Fork Country Club in Amagansett, Long Island; Tall Grass Golf Club at Shoreham on Long Island; Inniscone Golf Club in Avondale, Pennsylvania; and a new golf development underway on Vancouver Island, among many others.
“The (new design) now has the illusion of antiquity…TPC Boston looked great on television this year: shaggy, gnarly and old-looking. In person, it was even better: beautiful to behold, delightful to play. This was a refinement and enhancement of a course whose basic structure was sound, not a total renovation or wholesale replacement.” – Ron Whitten, Golf Course Architecture Editor (2007)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2021 14:47:44 GMT
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Post by andersnm on Aug 30, 2021 17:30:36 GMT
Putter on fire first round.  |
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Post by andersnm on Aug 30, 2021 19:33:47 GMT
Second round not so good. It all started well, but went for the pin on the 2nd to miss left and short, tried to pitch up from the rocks, but hit a rock back in the water, drop - and a double bogey. Putter not so hot, so -3 for the round. Happy to beat SimChars1968 also on this round  |
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Post by SimChars1968 on Aug 30, 2021 20:05:57 GMT
Second round not so good. It all started well, but went for the pin on the 2nd to miss left and short, tried to pitch up from the rocks, but hit a rock back in the water, drop - and a double bogey. Putter not so hot, so -3 for the round. Happy to beat SimChars1968 also on this round I like a nice target to aim for! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2021 23:36:15 GMT
Pro My putter was ice cold both rounds. I have a lot of ground to make up to catch andersnm. -7 after 2 rounds R1 R2 |
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Post by Tuffguts on Aug 31, 2021 13:25:53 GMT
Forgot this course has some deceptively long par 4's....I always remember the 2 short ones early on, not the rest of them. You'll take pars on all the par 3's as well. Bombed the 2nd in rd's 2 and 3 with crap swing plane into the water.....and got lucky in rd4 with almost a 3peat. Thankful for the 144 greens throughout. Took a bit of getting tuned in at the start but was confident over the short ones.
Anyway I was overreading all my putts early on in rd1 before I settled down and started really stalking them from front and back. Helped a heap as I started -4 and then -9 in Rd2. Putter was cranking.
Great start to rd's 3 and 4 but most of my struggle was on the back 9. -5 in Rd3 and -6 in rd4. Rd4 putting was awesome....some great lags and was right on top of the pace and slope.
-24 total and something for Anders and Co to chase down.
Cheers
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2021 13:57:14 GMT
R3 & R4 complete on Pro. Too many narrow misses with the putter.
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Post by hammers1man on Aug 31, 2021 14:12:28 GMT
Forgot this course has some deceptively long par 4's....I always remember the 2 short ones early on, not the rest of them. You'll take pars on all the par 3's as well. Bombed the 2nd in rd's 2 and 3 with crap swing plane into the water.....and got lucky in rd4 with almost a 3peat. Thankful for the 144 greens throughout. Took a bit of getting tuned in at the start but was confident over the short ones. Anyway I was overreading all my putts early on in rd1 before I settled down and started really stalking them from front and back. Helped a heap as I started -4 and then -9 in Rd2. Putter was cranking. Great start to rd's 3 and 4 but most of my struggle was on the back 9. -5 in Rd3 and -6 in rd4. Rd4 putting was awesome....some great lags and was right on top of the pace and slope. -24 total and something for Anders and Co to chase down. Cheers I see why there is some confusion here but not all the scores being posted here are from the USE Master different society. Some of the scores here are from the Pro difficulty society which don't count for the main tour schedule. |
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Post by paddyjk19 on Sept 1, 2021 11:06:09 GMT
Putter on fire first round. Great first round! I have Covid this week so have some time to actually play some pixel golf so I shall try to hunt you down! (and finish Hayling Island...) |
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Post by andersnm on Sept 3, 2021 17:09:05 GMT
Another very solid round. 1 bogey, but two eagles. Was very tight but I ran away from paddyjk19 at the end of this round with a birdie on 16th and eagle on 18th.  |
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Post by paddyjk19 on Sept 3, 2021 17:19:05 GMT
Another very solid round. 1 bogey, but two eagles. Was very tight but I ran away from paddyjk19 at the end of this round with a birdie on 16th and eagle on 18th. Well played Anders! |
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Post by andersnm on Sept 3, 2021 17:36:57 GMT
Another very solid round. 1 bogey, but two eagles. Was very tight but I ran away from paddyjk19 at the end of this round with a birdie on 16th and eagle on 18th. Well played Anders! Thanks. Made a complete mess in round 4 with a triple bogey on the 2nd after 2 shots in the water, and some big mistakes also later on.  |
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Post by andersnm on Sept 3, 2021 17:46:56 GMT
Forgot this course has some deceptively long par 4's....I always remember the 2 short ones early on, not the rest of them. You'll take pars on all the par 3's as well. Bombed the 2nd in rd's 2 and 3 with crap swing plane into the water.....and got lucky in rd4 with almost a 3peat. Thankful for the 144 greens throughout. Took a bit of getting tuned in at the start but was confident over the short ones. Anyway I was overreading all my putts early on in rd1 before I settled down and started really stalking them from front and back. Helped a heap as I started -4 and then -9 in Rd2. Putter was cranking. Great start to rd's 3 and 4 but most of my struggle was on the back 9. -5 in Rd3 and -6 in rd4. Rd4 putting was awesome....some great lags and was right on top of the pace and slope. -24 total and something for Anders and Co to chase down. Cheers I see why there is some confusion here but not all the scores being posted here are from the USE Master different society. Some of the scores here are from the Pro difficulty society which don't count for the main tour schedule. Yes. The color difference is blue on Pro Tour, and red on Master. |
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Post by hammers1man on Sept 3, 2021 18:58:44 GMT
Totally fed up with game atm, the gap in difficulty between Pro and Master is so immense. Pro I just hit every shot straight, Master I have to have totally concentration to strike the ball well. Tbh 25 under on a tough course is not sim, it is not sim when the only challenge is putting and distance control. I hate to say this but as this society is turning to a Pro difficulty society and I am not enthusiastic about playing that way because it doesn't feel sim to me at all.
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