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2015 Senior PGA (French Lick, IN)

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What a visually wild golf course. I enjoy Pete Dyes work and am really looking forward to catching some of this course during the coverage. Has anyone played the Dye at French Lick?

Side note, not sure about ease of access via air travel, but it seems to me this could be a really good location for a THP event. Two world class courses and hotel and casino on property.
 
Just when I almost forget how much I hate Pete Dye. Course looks like a b!tch. A beautiful b!tch though. I'll be watching.
 
Just watching a bit of it now, some nasty slopes in places from what I have seen :bulgy-eyes:
 
Hawk said:
Just when I almost forget how much I hate Pete Dye. Course looks like a b!tch. A beautiful b!tch though. I'll be watching.
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ha, sneaky man that Pete. Its a really interesting course, the volcano bunkers are crazy and present some really extreme lies when you get in the rough on the side of one. Not a feature I have seen anywhere before. There are several classic elements to the course as well. #4 is a pretty classic, severe but classic Redan.
 
Hawk said:
Just when I almost forget how much I hate Pete Dye. Course looks like a b!tch. A beautiful b!tch though. I'll be watching.
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Yep, it should be very interesting and well worth watching.
 
Will be tuned into this one. Curious as i've not seen or heard much about the course other than it exists.
 
Greens looked tiny.


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LordByron said:
if there is already a thread, please merge.

What a visually wild golf course. I enjoy Pete Dyes work and am really looking forward to catching some of this course during the coverage. Has anyone played the Dye at French Lick?

Side note, not sure about ease of access via air travel, but it seems to me this could be a really good location for a THP event. Two world class courses and hotel and casino on property.
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I'm an hour away and while I've played then Donald Ross a couple time I have not played the Pete Dye course. Actually, I don't even know anyone that has played it. I guess that $375-&400 price (if I remember correctly) is a bit too much for most in this area.
 
JRod said:
Greens looked tiny.


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Can't say that was my thought from the little that I watched, but the terrain certainly makes it a difficult course to navigate if you are out of position
 
Stroke average of almost 78 yesterday.


Brutal .

How does a place in French lick Indiana survive at 400$ green fees


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TheDoctor said:
Can't say that was my thought from the little that I watched, but the terrain certainly makes it a difficult course to navigate if you are out of position
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Yah seemed to be only the par threes. There were actually some pretty giant ones the more I watched.


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JRod said:
Yah seemed to be only the par threes. There were actually some pretty giant ones the more I watched.


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Greens are definitely not small compared to the courses I play

Watching it now and they showed the highest hole scores added up earlier which made for a total of 128 and the lowest scores totalled 52... That is some difference!
 
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I'm a moron the more I watch the bigger they are.


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tgtt said:
I'm an hour away and while I've played then Donald Ross a couple time I have not played the Pete Dye course. Actually, I don't even know anyone that has played it. I guess that $375-&400 price (if I remember correctly) is a bit too much for most in this area.
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I have been looking into playing the course and I believe you have the stay at the resort in order to play Pete Dye course. I have found the rate to stay at the resort, but I have yet to find a rate to play the course.
 
Course is nice but if I'm paying that much it's gonna be somewhere with some history.




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LordByron said:
ha, sneaky man that Pete. Its a really interesting course, the volcano bunkers are crazy and present some really extreme lies when you get in the rough on the side of one. Not a feature I have seen anywhere before. There are several classic elements to the course as well. #4 is a pretty classic, severe but classic Redan.
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I had my TV on GC last night when they came on air with coverage...saw one fairway that had the left side entirely lined with sand and had about 10-15 of those volcano bunkers from tee to green...does the level sand count as waste area when playing out of it or is it treated as a bunker also?
 
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darnall said:
I had my TV on GC last night when they came on air with coverage...saw one fairway that had the left side entirely lined with sand and had about 10-15 of those volcano bunkers from tee to green...does the level sand count as waste area when playing out of it or is it treated as a bunker also?
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Hard to tell with Pete dye courses . Normally I would say waste area the way they line the fairway but his courses are ridiculous ( see Dustin Johnson debacle)

Edit: if you mean the volcano things I think those are considered bunkers.

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darnall said:
I had my TV on GC last night when they came on air with coverage...saw one fairway that had the left side entirely lined with sand and had about 10-15 of those volcano bunkers from tee to green...does the level sand count as waste area when playing out of it or is it treated as a bunker also?
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Like JRod said likely played as bunker in tournaments. 18 at the river course at Black Wolf Run has a similar feature. He uses this to create a Cape hole. Usually the teeing ground is on the large hazard side of the fairway with that fairway running away from the player, allowing that player to play a tee ball short and safe or bite off a large portion of the hazard at much greater risk. The actually flooded the 18th at BWR during the Women's US Open to create a water hazard and more risk reward.


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