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The World Greatest Golf Course is now entering the Final Four.
We are down to the FOUR best golf courses voted by you at THP
Here is the thread to show the full pool and all the results. You decide on which is the World's Greatest Golf Course.
https://www.thehackersparadise.com/...ss-greatest-golf-course-in-the-world.8916364/
We have a quintessential matchup of the obstinately private vs widely public.
(1) Augusta National Golf Club
Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National tidbits below from the 2019 article of the New Yorker
It is by now hardly scandalous to note that Augusta National—called the National by its members and devotees, and Augusta by everyone else—is an environment of extreme artifice, an elaborate television soundstage, a fantasia of the fifties, a Disneyclub in the Georgia pines. Some of the components of the illusion are a matter of speculation, as the club is notoriously stingy with information about itself. It has been accepted as fact that recalcitrant patches of grass are painted green and that the ponds used to be dyed blue. Because the azaleas seem always to bloom right on time, skeptics have propagated the myth that the club’s horticulturists freeze the blossoms, in advance of the tournament, or swap out early bloomers for more coöperative specimens. Pine straw is imported. Pinecones are deported. There is a curious absence of fauna. One hardly ever sees a squirrel or a bird. I’d been told that birdsong—a lot of it, at any rate—is piped in through speakers hidden in the greenery. (In 2000, CBS got caught doing some overdubbing of its own, after a birder noticed that the trills and chirps on a golf broadcast belonged to non-indigenous species.) ...
Augusta National is sometimes likened to Oz. For one thing, it’s a Technicolor fantasyland embedded in an otherwise ordinary track of American sprawl. Washington Road, the main approach to the club, is a forlorn strip of Waffle Houses, pool-supply stores, and cheap-except-during-the-Masters hotels. In the Hooters parking lot during tournament week, fans line up for selfies with John Daly, the dissolute pro and avatar of mid-round cigarettes and booze. But step through the club’s metal detectors and badge scanners, and you enter a lush, high-rent realm, where you are not allowed to run, talk loudly, or cheer a player’s mistakes. Order is maintained by security guards, who for decades were provided by the Pinkerton detective agency. (Though Pinkerton was acquired by a Swedish company called Securitas, in 1999, many patrons still refer to the guards as Pinkertons.) In 2012, a fan who stole onto a fairway to take a cup of bunker sand was thrown in jail...
Augusta is obstinately private. Its leadership, embodied by its chairman, who serves for an indefinite term as a kind of sovereign and is the only person authorized to speak about the Masters, invariably deflects questions about club matters by saying that they are club matters. The club operates as a for-profit corporation. No one knows how much money it makes or has—except that it’s a lot, judging by the investments the club continually makes in the tournament, the course, the physical plant, and the expansion of its real-estate holdings. No one, anyway, is pocketing cash. Still, the high profile of the Masters, as an athletic competition and a cultural event, has often made Augusta National’s desire to be otherwise left alone seem risible, especially in light of the prominence—in business, in politics, in public life—of so many of its members. It’s a remarkable if dodgy, achievement that the club has managed to maintain the private-public charade for as long as it has...
Twitter: @Aug_masters
Website: https://www.augusta.com/
(1) Pebble Beach
Golf-The mystique and beauty of U.S. Open venue Pebble Beach
There is no grander stage in major championship golf than Pebble Beach, and next week the majestic coastal layout on California's picturesque Monterey Peninsula will host the U.S. Open for the fifth time.
Forever cloaked in mystique and often shrouded in fog, Pebble Beach Golf Links is one of the most famous and beautiful courses in the world. The mere mention of its name conjures up images of breathtaking scenery.
Nine of its holes straddle the Pacific shoreline and players fortunate enough to visit the venue for the first time never tire of soaking in the stunning vistas of crashing waves, turquoise water, rocky cliffs, and white-sand beaches.
"It's a pretty special place," Jack Nicklaus told reporters while hosting last week's Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio. "It's not a very difficult golf course when the wind doesn't blow but it's extremely difficult when the wind blows."
Nicklaus fell in love with Pebble Beach after winning the U.S. amateur championship there in 1961 and he went on to triumph in the first U.S. Open played there in 1972.
"I played great and every single round I played in the amateur I played under par," he recalled. "I just loved it and then I came back (to Pebble) and won three Crosbys. It's a very special piece of property."
Nicklaus won the PGA Tour's Bing Crosby National Pro-Am in 1967, 1972 and 1973, a tournament now known as the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Held every February, it offers television viewers a spectacular reminder of the course's beauty.
"You always want to go back to Pebble Beach," said eight-times major champion Tom Watson, who won the 1982 U.S. Open at the venue after overhauling Nicklaus with a stunning birdie-birdie finish.
"What defines this golf course is the beauty. Everybody who thinks about Pebble Beach, the first thing they think about is not that it's a golf course. They think about the beauty of this place. That's what makes it special."
Twitter: @PebbleBeachGolf
website: https://www.pebblebeach.com/
We are down to the FOUR best golf courses voted by you at THP
Here is the thread to show the full pool and all the results. You decide on which is the World's Greatest Golf Course.
https://www.thehackersparadise.com/...ss-greatest-golf-course-in-the-world.8916364/
We have a quintessential matchup of the obstinately private vs widely public.
(1) Augusta National Golf Club
Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National tidbits below from the 2019 article of the New Yorker
It is by now hardly scandalous to note that Augusta National—called the National by its members and devotees, and Augusta by everyone else—is an environment of extreme artifice, an elaborate television soundstage, a fantasia of the fifties, a Disneyclub in the Georgia pines. Some of the components of the illusion are a matter of speculation, as the club is notoriously stingy with information about itself. It has been accepted as fact that recalcitrant patches of grass are painted green and that the ponds used to be dyed blue. Because the azaleas seem always to bloom right on time, skeptics have propagated the myth that the club’s horticulturists freeze the blossoms, in advance of the tournament, or swap out early bloomers for more coöperative specimens. Pine straw is imported. Pinecones are deported. There is a curious absence of fauna. One hardly ever sees a squirrel or a bird. I’d been told that birdsong—a lot of it, at any rate—is piped in through speakers hidden in the greenery. (In 2000, CBS got caught doing some overdubbing of its own, after a birder noticed that the trills and chirps on a golf broadcast belonged to non-indigenous species.) ...
Augusta National is sometimes likened to Oz. For one thing, it’s a Technicolor fantasyland embedded in an otherwise ordinary track of American sprawl. Washington Road, the main approach to the club, is a forlorn strip of Waffle Houses, pool-supply stores, and cheap-except-during-the-Masters hotels. In the Hooters parking lot during tournament week, fans line up for selfies with John Daly, the dissolute pro and avatar of mid-round cigarettes and booze. But step through the club’s metal detectors and badge scanners, and you enter a lush, high-rent realm, where you are not allowed to run, talk loudly, or cheer a player’s mistakes. Order is maintained by security guards, who for decades were provided by the Pinkerton detective agency. (Though Pinkerton was acquired by a Swedish company called Securitas, in 1999, many patrons still refer to the guards as Pinkertons.) In 2012, a fan who stole onto a fairway to take a cup of bunker sand was thrown in jail...
Augusta is obstinately private. Its leadership, embodied by its chairman, who serves for an indefinite term as a kind of sovereign and is the only person authorized to speak about the Masters, invariably deflects questions about club matters by saying that they are club matters. The club operates as a for-profit corporation. No one knows how much money it makes or has—except that it’s a lot, judging by the investments the club continually makes in the tournament, the course, the physical plant, and the expansion of its real-estate holdings. No one, anyway, is pocketing cash. Still, the high profile of the Masters, as an athletic competition and a cultural event, has often made Augusta National’s desire to be otherwise left alone seem risible, especially in light of the prominence—in business, in politics, in public life—of so many of its members. It’s a remarkable if dodgy, achievement that the club has managed to maintain the private-public charade for as long as it has...
Twitter: @Aug_masters
Website: https://www.augusta.com/
(1) Pebble Beach
Golf-The mystique and beauty of U.S. Open venue Pebble Beach
There is no grander stage in major championship golf than Pebble Beach, and next week the majestic coastal layout on California's picturesque Monterey Peninsula will host the U.S. Open for the fifth time.
Forever cloaked in mystique and often shrouded in fog, Pebble Beach Golf Links is one of the most famous and beautiful courses in the world. The mere mention of its name conjures up images of breathtaking scenery.
Nine of its holes straddle the Pacific shoreline and players fortunate enough to visit the venue for the first time never tire of soaking in the stunning vistas of crashing waves, turquoise water, rocky cliffs, and white-sand beaches.
"It's a pretty special place," Jack Nicklaus told reporters while hosting last week's Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio. "It's not a very difficult golf course when the wind doesn't blow but it's extremely difficult when the wind blows."
Nicklaus fell in love with Pebble Beach after winning the U.S. amateur championship there in 1961 and he went on to triumph in the first U.S. Open played there in 1972.
"I played great and every single round I played in the amateur I played under par," he recalled. "I just loved it and then I came back (to Pebble) and won three Crosbys. It's a very special piece of property."
Nicklaus won the PGA Tour's Bing Crosby National Pro-Am in 1967, 1972 and 1973, a tournament now known as the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Held every February, it offers television viewers a spectacular reminder of the course's beauty.
"You always want to go back to Pebble Beach," said eight-times major champion Tom Watson, who won the 1982 U.S. Open at the venue after overhauling Nicklaus with a stunning birdie-birdie finish.
"What defines this golf course is the beauty. Everybody who thinks about Pebble Beach, the first thing they think about is not that it's a golf course. They think about the beauty of this place. That's what makes it special."
Twitter: @PebbleBeachGolf
website: https://www.pebblebeach.com/
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