Apple City Open – Practice Round
Get a load of this. This course is the definition of narrow fairways (please excuse the high res pictures. I will try to compress later):
I kid you not, every hole is similar to this. Why you design fairways like this is beyond me. It is some of the worst course design I have ever seen. Defeats the purpose of positional play. Explain to me how the driving area for the driver is narrower than the landing area for wedge approach shots…..
But no complaints from me. Looks like everyone will be playing from the rough this week 🙂 There are birdies to be had here. Maybe not on the 484m par 4 5th, which forces me not to hit driver as shown below, but they are there:
The dreaded split fairway also appears a few times at Apple City:
The greens have a nice surface, medium softness with simple contouring. The rough is a thinner wispier leaf so some spin can be applied to the ball. It is unfortunate the fairways are this narrow because this is the first course we have played that has mown fairways. They are beautiful.
Because of the fairway designs this course is a bombers course. Overall this is a course that I like very much from the point of view of how it suits my game.
3 Responses to “Apple City Open – Practice Round”
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Brummer on 08 Jul 2007 at 9:33 pm #
Blade, nice to see that you have time to photoshop a few photo’s and make
the fairways look like they are 6m wide. What’s that? The really are that
narrow.Fair dinkum this is what fairways would look like if the USGA were having
their period. Is this a preview of Augusta in about 5 years?Agree with FLusha above, the funiest thing I’ve ever seen. It appears that
the course designer was not the problem but rather the committee / ground
staff who cut the fairways where they did. Is there a petrol shortage in
China? Are they getting the global warming message and only running the
mowers in one strip down each hole?cheers, Brummer
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Judge Smails on 12 Jul 2007 at 12:11 am #
Nathan, there are not many fairways in the world I could lie down on and have both my head and feet in the rough yet you managed to find one!
Keep smashing it mate!
Kev
Flusha on 08 Jul 2007 at 6:37 pm #
Hey Nathan,
Love the photo’s. That is the funniest thing I have ever seen!.
Good luck mate. Smash it long but keep it between the white posts.
Cheers,
Persk.