Favorite Tour Picture

[Darth Putter]

TPC Sawgrass 1978

 

 

 

The back 9, stretched out on a cocktail napkin by Pete Dye at dinner with Commissioner Deane Beman.

[iBanesto]

Hal Sutton beating Tiger Woods at the Players Championship in his prime.

 

[Janice_rossi]

The best

[jmck]

TPC Sawgrass 1978

 

 

 

The back 9, stretched out on a cocktail napkin by Pete Dye at dinner with Commissioner Deane Beman.

 

True story. I was involved in the building of a Pete Dye course back in the 80s. About 10 years after it opened we went to sell it. We had been advertising it as a Dye course since day one, and the folks who ultimately bought it wanted to see some documentation that it was indeed a real Dye course--a reasonable part of their due diligence--as well as seeing the typical stuff a designer/architect leaves behind like drainage and sprinkler layouts, etc. The best we could do was a framed cocktail napkin: "I agree to design [course name], for better or worse. --Pete Dye"

[touch]

[Darth Putter]

The officials are getting ready for the restart...

[RedWings1]

Darth Putter said:

The officials are getting ready for the restart...

 I'm calling for a post round penalty docking that Blue Blazer guy his tourney salary for being outta dress code! How dare a Blue Blazer rules guy officiating without his kakis! We need Hank Haney on this for those who listen to him on Sirius XM. If we zoom in closer you can read on those clip boards: kill the greens & protect Mike from Hank at all costs.

 

[Darth Putter]

its coming...

 

 

 

[Hankshank]

Numbered list:

1. wash
2. rinse
3. repeat

[Darth Putter]

With the pros in Austin this week, let's take a look back at another event in town over at Onion Creek

 

 

In 1982 Don January and Sam Snead shot a -27 score of 183 for 54 holes to win the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf by 12 shots. January was 52, Sam was 69!

 

[Christosterone]

This was a great tournament....

 

[Darth Putter]

posted this in The Master thread as well

 

 

[3jacker]

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Brian Harman?

[iBanesto]

Sarazen and Snead. Class.

 


 

 

 

 

 

[iBanesto]

One of the most underappreciated Masters champion. Great win in tough conditions.

 


 

[Darth Putter]

 

 

 

 

 

[Hankshank]

> @iBanesto said:

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That trouser color must have been considered girlish or at least Jesperish back then.

 

[Christosterone]

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[Darth Putter]

Golf Digest found a whole bunch of Masters photos when moving offices and posted some of them today. They are from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

 

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/serendipity-leads-to-discovery-of-hundreds-of-incredible-never-before-seen-masters-photos

 

 

[iBanesto]

> @"Darth Putter" said:

> Golf Digest found a whole bunch of Masters photos when moving offices and posted some of them today. They are from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

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> https://www.golfdigest.com/story/serendipity-leads-to-discovery-of-hundreds-of-incredible-never-before-seen-masters-photos

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Amazing!

[iBanesto]

One from the link above.

 


 

[imakaveli]


 

[3jacker]

Cool find. Great photos. To this day no one can touch Arnie for coolness.

 

I like the Far Side lady... I thought those drawings in the 80s comic strip were exaggerations or something but I guess not:

 

 

[iBanesto]

Floyd and Trevino.

 


 

[Darth Putter]

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For those that missed it before, I'll bring this one back.

 

 

[tiderider]

great article inside that article: what modern architects would change about the course ...

 

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/masters-2019-we-redesigned-augusta-national

 

_Tom Doak is known for creating world-ranked courses like Pacific Dunes in Oregon and Tara Iti in New Zealand. But when the now 58-year-old Doak burst upon the scene in the mid-1980s, what first grabbed our attention was his writing in architecture. He was perhaps the sharpest critic of his time, willing to call out shortcomings in famous courses when few would.

Back in 1987, Doak wrote of Augusta National: “So many revisions that MacKenzie might not recognize it today.” He lamented “how completely it’s changed from his vision.”

Back then, one of the Augusta National holes Doak said he could “do without” was the par-4 ninth. He’s still not a fan of it today.

“The present ninth green is not a great green,” Doak says. “It’s super severe with only one way to play it: get it up the hill but keep it below the hole. It’s one of the most difficult holes for member play. If you don’t get up the hill with your second shot, it might roll back 75 yards. And if you go long to be safe, your putt might wind up all the way back down the hill.

“As a big believer in restoring cool features that have been lost, I would recommend the club restore the original boomerang green at the ninth. The original green, shaped much like the seventh green at Crystal Downs or the 14th at the University of Michigan course [both Alister MacKenzie designs as well], had two distinct sections that offered a more receptive approach, although the left one was wrapped around a bunker that you might have to carry to get to it.

“If you reintroduced the old green, the pros would face a different approach shot depending upon where the pin is. When the hole is on the left wing, you could hit to the back of the green and let the contours feed the ball down to the left. Which is a much different shot than they face today.”_

_Doak sees little chance that his suggestion will ever be implemented.

“To the club’s credit,” he says, “they know what their mission is. It’s the Masters, not the preservation of MacKenzie architecture. I think the ninth green is one of the few items of restoration to the course that would reinstitute MacKenzie and yet still challenge today’s tour pros. But they’ll never pursue that idea because the club started prioritizing challenge for professionals above fun for members quite a few years ago. That’s too bad, because I do believe Bobby Jones intended to strike a balance of both.”_

 

 

 

[Christosterone]

 

[Darth Putter]

 

 

 

 

[CircleC29]

 

[Hankshank]

> @iBanesto said:

> Hal Sutton beating Tiger Woods at the Players Championship in his prime.

 

The ”Yes!” I really, really liked that celebration. Good shots on the course too seldom makes guys react, having to keep the concentration for upcoming shots.