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Michael Morandi

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Re: 2023 Golf Course March Madness Bracket - *CHAMPIONSHIP VOTING*
« Reply #75 on: April 02, 2023, 01:20:24 PM »
I ranked courses that I PLAYED and on the basis of shot quality, using every club in the bag and challenge.

Michael Chadwick

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Re: 2023 Golf Course March Madness Bracket - *CHAMPIONSHIP VOTING*
« Reply #76 on: April 03, 2023, 05:48:02 PM »
Final reminder to pick your champion this evening if you haven't already done so:


Voting for the championship is now live until Monday, 4/3 at 9 pm PT: https://forms.gle/2GkaQTPdP78rkg7G8
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Michael Chadwick

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Re: 2023 Golf Course March Madness Bracket - *CHAMPIONSHIP VOTING*
« Reply #77 on: April 04, 2023, 12:10:50 AM »
Not unlike UConn's dominance throughout the tournament, the GCA 2023 National Champion is Alister MacKenzie's 1928 Cypress Point Club.


Cypress beat NGLA 65% to 35%.


I'm still not sure how to interpret Tom's earlier call that NGLA would win. Perhaps it was a bait to get people to counter his assumption with votes for CPC, and thereby ensure a win for the course he actually believed deserved it most ;)   
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Stewart Abramson

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Re: 2023 Golf Course March Madness Bracket - *CHAMPIONSHIP VOTING*
« Reply #78 on: April 04, 2023, 03:44:07 AM »

I'm still not sure how to interpret Tom's earlier call that NGLA would win. Perhaps it was a bait to get people to counter his assumption with votes for CPC, and thereby ensure a win for the course he actually believed deserved it most ;)


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Dan_Callahan

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Re: 2023 Golf Course March Madness Bracket - *FINAL*
« Reply #79 on: April 04, 2023, 08:47:59 AM »
If you take away the ocean, does Cypress still win?

John Kavanaugh

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Re: 2023 Golf Course March Madness Bracket - *FINAL*
« Reply #80 on: April 04, 2023, 08:52:30 AM »
If Bing Crosby couldn’t sing Cypress doesn’t win.

Michael Morandi

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Re: 2023 Golf Course March Madness Bracket - *FINAL*
« Reply #81 on: April 04, 2023, 12:04:58 PM »
Sandy Tatum on CPC in 2008:


Discuss how the ball and technology has effected Cypress Point over the past thirty years.
[/color]It’s just not viable as a championship course anymore. As you know, there is plenty of room to add distance at Cypress Point. Holes 4,6,8 could be lengthened and 9 if the tee is moved down. Furthermore you could go back as far as you wanted on 12 and 13.
[/color]There was a serious movement to do that and I wrote a letter to the board saying to do that would eliminate a Mackenzie design. I added that if Cypress wanted to have an influence on the game then keep it is as it is and have it used as a clinical example of why the ball should be rolled back. As a practical manner, lengthening it was only going to accommodate a very small percentage of people. I have a friend who is a member and he disagrees with me. His argument is he saw Tiger Woods play the 2nd hole with a driver and 4 iron. Others have seen him try and drive the 17th hole. My argument is that when a player can do that, he takes every single design element that the architect puts in the hole, out of play.

Michael Moore

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Re: 2023 Golf Course March Madness Bracket - *FINAL*
« Reply #82 on: April 04, 2023, 01:59:19 PM »
It looks to me like a player trying to drive the seventeenth hole encounters numerous and exciting design elements.
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Kevin_Reilly

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Re: 2023 Golf Course March Madness Bracket - *FINAL*
« Reply #83 on: April 04, 2023, 05:36:11 PM »
Back in the early days of the Internet (late 90's), I had a video of Tiger on the 17th doing an impression of Mark Calcavecchia's swing (he was there during a practice round of the AT&T). He was trying to drive the green.  Tiger might have been playing with Calc.


Unfortunately, I lost the video and haven't been able to find it.
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Max Prokopy

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Re: 2023 Golf Course March Madness Bracket - *FINAL*
« Reply #84 on: April 04, 2023, 08:47:00 PM »
Being fortunate to have played both, I voted for NGLA because the weakest holes are still so compelling.  East coast bias I guess.

Jim O’Kane

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Re: 2023 Golf Course March Madness Bracket - *CHAMPIONSHIP VOTING*
« Reply #85 on: April 10, 2023, 01:34:02 AM »
Jim O'Kane,

Thanks for your post.  I liked it.


Thanks John.

I'm not sure it was relevant, or even that I should have shared. (thought about deleting it as I had been up late working and had a couple of colden ones).

Since you replied, I left it.

I don't have the knowledge to contribute much sometimes, so, thank you sir.

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