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Course Name: Silver Seas Resort
Location : Scotland
Length/Par : 7072 / 72
Difficulty : Moderate to difficult
JNUG Design: Jim Dutton (Ranger)
Acknowledgements :
To Scott Chesney for a low lying bush from
Royal Dornoh (modified)
Ted Maiden (Maker) for a stone wall from
Aegina (modified and crumbled)
To Lee Ritze for a Tudor building
Other designers for objects of whose origins I am unsure
Silver Seas was originally a course without trees, done as an
exercise in trying to make a JNUG course where the layout of the hole
itself was sufficient challenge. Unfortunately, the very best players
ate it up anyway, and felt that addition of trees and other objects
was needed to make a course with potential into a course with real bite.
Thus I added not only trees, but low lying bushes and grasses,
used 'Green' terrain as high rough, deepened bunkers, and in general
tried to figure out just how many ways I could make a player hate any
lie outside of the fairway. You can still score well even on this
'new and sadistic' version of Silver Seas if you play in mild conditions,
but with high winds and/or fast greens you will have to play well to
break par. There are some situations on a few holes that are absolute
killers. You'll recognize these situations if you are unfortunate
enough to find them. My best advice is to take your medicine and the
shortest route back to the fairway. My latest attempt at heroism from
one of those lies resulted in a 7 on the Par 4 hole involved. I think
I've learned my lesson!
When thinking about the design of Silver Seas, I had just been
reading about Hazeltine, and the complaints about way the Open was laid
out the last time it was played there. Many of the complaints centered
around doglegs and blind tee and approach shots. This inspired one of my
main motivations in the exercise, to create a challenging course
substantially without doglegs.
I added challenge to the course with hills, fairways that taper
sharply beyond the normal driving range, sand, water, and some small
greens. Safe shots in the middle of the fairway and 250 yards out will
generally have an excellent view of the green, but they will often
still be a long iron away. This was inspired by comments that Jack
Nicklaus made about Shinnecock Hills as an Open course, to the effect
that although the fairways were very narrow, there was almost always
a safe driving area to back up to if you didn't want to
risk the rough.
Many greens are tucked in by the water, making it smart to
go for the center of the green rather than shooting at the pin
each time. This is a strategy often forced upon pros, and I
wanted the setup of the course to suggest this as wise. Generally,
the pins are placed on small flat areas separated by slopes. This
tends to reward a close shot, while keeping medium to long range
putts challenging. I confess, this element of the design was
especially thought out to keep Eddie C. from nailing one 40
footer after another!
I spent hours working on something you'll never use, the
water. Unless I missed something, all the water is uniformly flat,
except that it is rippled, which water in Scotland, with its
wind, certainly should be. I also spent much time seaching out
every place where water could 'climb hills', and if I've missed any
its not for lack of looking!
The par 5's are all reachable, but each has its own twist. One
is only 470 yards long, but still causes me as many bogies as
birdies or occasionaly eagles. I'm particularly proud of the 9th
hole ... my signature hole. It is reachable, but only by a golfer
with a death wish (or playing the Amateur skill level).
Please send me your opinions of Silver Seas. You can reach me
at Accolade as RANGER1, and on Prodigy (ID below).
Have fun!
Jim Dutton (RANGER)
Prodigy ID : RCRV26A
Land Line : (704) 365-9489
Yardage Card :
OUT IN
HOLE PAR YARDS HOLE PAR YARDS
1 4 461 10 4 407
2 3 208 11 4 392
3 4 464 12 4 459
4 5 470 13 3 197
5 3 173 14 5 512
6 4 397 15 3 136
7 4 429 16 4 373
8 4 410 17 4 463
9 5 588 18 5 533
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36 3600 36 3472
72 7072
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