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Re: Kiawah's Greens

• DarSum 1,440 Posts

  Thu, May 19 2011 11:34 AM

  It makes me wonder what the programmers were smoking when they plotted Kiawah's greens.

  5 ft putt with 3 dots. The first dot is creeping the 2nd dot is going around 60mph and the 3rd dot is creeping. ooook...

  5 foot putt. Side angle view, which is always fun. 3 dots moving slowly left to right. Play left edge. Putt doesn't move right even a 1/32" of an inch. Rolls exactly over where you put the arrow 4 inches past.

  #7 green has to be the worst. No question. No, wait, #2. Or maybe #8 where's dots are actually racing each other on the same putt grid. I'm pretty sure I saw one pass the one in front of it.

• bearclaw27 553 Posts

  Thu, May 19 2011 12:05 PM

  DarSum:

  It makes me wonder what the programmers were smoking when they plotted Kiawah's greens.

  Maybe your complaint is with the infamous Pete Dye, who designed the Kiawah Ocean Course..?

• genorb 1,255 Posts

  Thu, May 19 2011 12:24 PM

  DarSum:

  Or maybe #8 where's dots are actually racing each other on the same putt grid. I'm pretty sure I saw one pass the one in front of it.

  lol, hilarous, wet eyes now.

  Yeah that's a real problem. At some places the grid makes no sense (but OK we can still play) but at other places the grid is simply wrong. Happy that I am not the only one who thinks this way :) .

   

• DarSum 1,440 Posts

  Thu, May 19 2011 12:31 PM

  bearclaw27:

  DarSum:

  It makes me wonder what the programmers were smoking when they plotted Kiawah's greens.

   

  Maybe your complaint is with the infamous Pete Dye, who designed the Kiawah Ocean Course..?

  More of an observation than a complaint.

  I highly doubt if Mr. Dye was standing over the plotter programmers shoulders during the re-creation of the greens shouting, "NO NO NO! That green has 4 breaks on that line in that 10 foot area!"

  So yeah, my "complaint" is for the programmers, not Mr. Dye.