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My friends claim to have seen John out at Live Oak in San Antonio Yesterday, I can only assume that means good news for DGers around here.
Do you recommend planting trees directly in front of the basket? . . say 10 to 20' in front. We have a new course in SW Missouri with a lot of mature trees that they've decided was not tough enough, so they planted dozens of smaller trees directly blocking the baskets. They may have accomplished their goal of making the course a few shots tougher . . but I have talked to several players who feel that the course has been sort of "cosmetically cheapened". The course has lost some of it's natural character. (Kind of like a golf course designer putting a bunch of pot hole bunkers in front of the greens just to get a higher course rating) What are your thoughts about this issue? Is a beautifully tree lined 200 foot hole considered bad just because it allows a direct flight for an ace?
What we want to do is increase the ratio of skill to luck, and single trees usually work against us. The classic example is a skinny tree in the middle of a wooded fairway.
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There will always be times when two similar drives get different results, but our goal is to minimize that. The solution in this case would be to plant several trees and create an obstacle that's several feet wide, not four inches wide. People can make the case that perfectly-placed skinny trees force players to choose to one type of throw or another, and that is a good thing. But in general we want to create fairways that don't rely on thin obstacles.
That would be very cool if it will happen. I won't hold my breath on the college, though. Northwest Vista took close to 4 years to get going I'm told. That college district moves like frozen molasses.:doh: