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  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,240 Founders Club
    YellowSnow said:

    Bob_C said:

    I like Speith at LACC. Super wide fairways and lots of short grass around the greens. Course looks incredible.

    The best US Open courses are always in CA. How did LA get it this time? Seems like they always rotate through TP, Pebble Beach and Olympic in SF.

    Sad that @RaceBannon moved back to the shite hole that is WA.
    Have to disagree with you as an architecture snob. Torrey is one of the worst sites. Olympic is marginal and quite uninteresting. Pebble can be good, but it really needs a renovation. Rivera is a better course than all of those hands down.

    Shinnecock and Oakmont are hands down the best two rotation sites.
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  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,383
    Pinehurst #2 would like a word
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  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,240 Founders Club
    whlinder said:

    Pinehurst #2 would like a word

    The renovated version is vastly better than the Payne Stewart version. Terrible tournament last time it was there (only one since the renovation), so it's still in let it play out mode for me.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    Bob_C said:

    YellowSnow said:

    Bob_C said:

    I like Speith at LACC. Super wide fairways and lots of short grass around the greens. Course looks incredible.

    The best US Open courses are always in CA. How did LA get it this time? Seems like they always rotate through TP, Pebble Beach and Olympic in SF.

    Sad that @RaceBannon moved back to the shite hole that is WA.
    Have to disagree with you as an architecture snob. Torrey is one of the worst sites. Olympic is marginal and quite uninteresting. Pebble can be good, but it really needs a renovation. Rivera is a better course than all of those hands down.

    Shinnecock and Oakmont are hands down the best two rotation sites.
    For christ's sake, The Lodge at Torrey Pines is an architectural masterpiece. I've had many romantical getaways there.


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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,460 Founders Club
    I've walked Pebble and Torrey. Big fan. Not a big northeast old school USGA guy. I do like the Riviera tournament every year

    The US Open can be boring or great anywhere

    Agree that Olympic sucks

    Ben Hogan, Arnie, and Payne all lost to nobodies there
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,460 Founders Club
    Ok Billy Casper is somebody
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    RaceBannon said:

    I've walked Pebble and Torrey. Big fan. Not a big northeast old school USGA guy. I do like the Riviera tournament every year

    The US Open can be boring or great anywhere

    Agree that Olympic sucks

    Ben Hogan, Arnie, and Payne all lost to nobodies there

    Really? Olympic looks so cool on TV and in pics. I've only driven by it thought and never walked around the actual course.
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  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,240 Founders Club
    My issue with Torrie is pure course snobbery. It is on some of the best property you could ever ask for, but the course doesn’t use hardly any of it. Bunkers on both sides of the landing zones and crazy thick rough everywhere else. Not much strategy required there. It’s boring in February or June.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    edited June 2023
    Bob_C said:

    My issue with Torrie is pure course snobbery. It is on some of the best property you could ever ask for, but the course doesn’t use hardly any of it. Bunkers on both sides of the landing zones and crazy thick rough everywhere else. Not much strategy required there. It’s boring in February or June.

    Full disclosure (it's not obvious already) - I'm a total hacker and not nearly the golf aficionado that some of you all are. But I enjoy the game and am trying slowly to get better.

    I think when I've been at Torrey Pines (never played it) hiking around and what not I get distracted by the property and views. So yeah, maybe it lacks some of the interesting features that other US Open level courses have.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,500 Standard Supporter
    whlinder said:

    Hero ball rarely works in golf

    Music Edibles in the cart always works

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