[CornFed]

Eugene is an excellent course with an interesting story.  It’s an old site.  Many years ago, the members asked Robert Trent Jones to make it better., and he chose an approach I’d never heard of before.  He kept the routing but reversed it; he turned the old tees into greens and the old greens into tees.  A major consequences was that instead of elevated tees, he now had elevated greens, and the beginning of some strong green complexes.  The par five 13th really stands out, and the par threes, which Jones seemed to do unusually well everywhere, do, too/

Last time I played, it was one of those courses that inspires your best game because it is so well-kept.  The greens were perfect.

Also spent an afternoon there watching my next-door neighbor against some Cardinal players for the conference championship. Peter Jacobsen developed his game there and at Astoria G & CC, where I spent years as a junior golfer. The man who did the most for Peter’s game, Marlow Quick was the pro there and my pro for a short time. For good reason, Marlow makes a split-second appearance in my new novel, Scaling Gin Ridge.

Re the regional:
Rogers. What a force to have at #1. The best college player now by a stroke. But he’ll have battles once the Cardinal reach match play.

Birwat may be coming on.  The format and stage probably won’t intimidate him.

Wilson is Rogers plus a stroke.  He will be a near lock point if Conrad slots him at #3.

Boote is seasoned and will be good at #4.

Maverick confirmed my worse fears.  They now cannot risk taking him. Liu is in--isn’t he?  Conrad needs to choose someone with the best chance of having one very good round in three.

Hulk- I much appreciate your passage.  This board will never cease to amaze me.  I would never have guessed that such insights would be forthcoming from such an innocuous inquiry.  Thank you, so much.

[CornFed]

Eugene is an excellent course with an interesting story.  It’s an old site.  Many years ago, the members asked Robert Trent Jones to make it better., and he chose an approach I’d never heard of before.  He kept the routing but reversed it; he turned the old tees into greens and the old greens into tees.  A major consequences was that instead of elevated tees, he now had elevated greens, and the beginning of some strong green complexes.  The par five 13th really stands out, and the par threes, which Jones seemed to do unusually well everywhere, do, too/

Last time I played, it was one of those courses that inspires your best game because it is so well-kept.  The greens were perfect.

Also spent an afternoon there watching my next-door neighbor against some Cardinal players for the conference championship. Peter Jacobsen developed his game there and at Astoria G & CC, where I spent years as a junior golfer. The man who did the most for Peter’s game, Marlow Quick was the pro there and my pro for a short time. For good reason, Marlow makes a split-second appearance in my new novel, Scaling Gin Ridge.

Re the regional:
Rogers. What a force to have at #1. The best college player now by a stroke. But he’ll have battles once the Cardinal reach match play.

Birwat may be coming on.  The format and stage probably won’t intimidate him.

Wilson is Rogers plus a stroke.  He will be a near lock point if Conrad slots him at #3.

Boote is seasoned and will be good at #4.

Maverick confirmed my worse fears.  They now cannot risk taking him. Liu is in--isn’t he?  Conrad needs to choose someone with the best chance of having one very good round in three.

Hulk- I much appreciate your passage.  This board will never cease to amaze me.  I would never have guessed that such insights would be forthcoming from such an innocuous inquiry.  Thank you, so much.