'Alainn Tr'aigh Links

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Started on overheads. Of course I'm limited at this point but here's a quick peek at Hole #1 overhead. Just a yay or nay.Image
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Yea!
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Yay!! I'm almost done with hole #2. Doing some final playtesting.
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Sundance wrote: December 21st, 2022, 2:07 am Started on overheads. Of course I'm limited at this point but here's a quick peek at Hole #1 overhead. Just a yay or nay.Image
Definite yay!
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Looks good, Steve.
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Big time yay on that overhead!! Really nice!
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Thanks for responding guys. I'll go with this style then which I thought was very nice for our design.
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Initial construction on hole 17 is underway. I was lucky this year to play a few Seth Raynor courses (Yale, Sleepy Hollow and Yeamans Hall) and drawing inspiration from those rounds, the 17th at Aliann Tr'aigh Links will be a "Biarritz" hole, one of the template holes that CB Macdonald and Raynor are famous for.

If you'd like to read more about the Biarritz template hole, here's a good article from the Fried Egg website: https://thefriedegg.com/biarritz-template-hole/

Here's what the 9th at Yale looks like from the tee... that's me getting ready to close my eyes and hope for the best! :laugh:

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Great photo and look at this iconic hole!

The Fried Egg is a great source of information for the template golf holes!

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So that is how a Biarritz green looks like in real life? I did one in Gator Alley that I helped you finish Jeff. Glad you are doing this the right way now lol. How long is the distance to the pin here? I suppose the approach cant be too long to be able to stop before running down and away :)
My version in GBC was like 200 yards to the first part before the chasm, but with fairway to land at, looks much easier than in your photo.

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