Some more inspirational reading for U.S. Open designers

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Hello,

     Here is a link to some interesting reading. Note how during some of the experience descriptions the professional golfer refers to the last round of an Open being ruined because the grounds crew and course managers decided not to water down the greens or fairways in the absence of the morning sea fog. Seems like grounds crews and course managers have a fair amount of control over very dry and hard conditions. Also of note is the removal of many trees from the golf course to open it up. Anyways hopefully you will enjoy the reading and it will help with your designs.

www.pgatour.com/news/2012/06/13/usopen-albers.print.html

Later,

-Mike

[mcbogga]

Reverse camber is great and one of the things Canuck uses on this latest.

Olympic club is still a narrow tree lined course by any normal standards.

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mcbogga,

I kind of try and put in some standard camber on some of my fairways but I never did it with much thought about normal to reverse camber or even much in relation to the green. Definitely going to add some of this to the remake of Majestic Royale (Check it out in "Under Construction" if you have the time). Also will be using it moving forward. I realize I am just touching the surface when it comes to course design. I'll be doing a lot more research about real world course design. Going to have to make some time to play Tobo.

You actually inspired me to create "Golden Pond (Pro Tees)". Where a relatively small course gets professional tees installed for an upcoming event. It's a remake of my fictional home course "Golden Pond"

Thanks for your advice and your posts about real world course design and our own course design techniques,

-Mike