For anyone curious about the fate of the notorious SPC in Burlington (technically Whitsett I think) NC, the final redesign was decided upon by the park's director b/c the original designers and some local club members were at an eternal impasse. The course is/was in a state of dysfunction after the two factions couldn't agree on how to best convert a Gold/Blue level course crammed into a multi-use park/athletic complex into a Blue/White level course crammed into a multi-use park/athletic complex. Personal opinion reflected by smilies:
Hole 1: Same
Hole 2: Same
Hole 3: Hole 3's original Gold tee (the one close to hole 2's tees) is now the Blue tee for a basket installed near the end of the woods that encompass hole 2. White tee is to be moved somewhere along the ridge line the Blue tee sits on, just shorter. Mando will still be in effect on the Blue tee to deter people from throwing into the softball field. :thmbdown:
Hole 4: Plays to Hole 3's original basket from two tees marked on the sidewalk up on the ridge. Mando on left to deter people from throwing into the softball field.
Hole 5: Original hole 5 (infamous par 2) is extinct so the original hole 4 (the last hyzer around the softball complex) is re-numbered as hole 5. Gold tee is gone, the short tee is now the Blue tee and the White tee will be installed eventually.
Hole 6: Same.
Hole 7: Long tee (now Blue) is not deemed too dangerously close to the road and stays put. Basket has been moved to lengthen and straighten hole. :\
Hole 8: Originally close to a 1000' long and primarily a fairway consisting of a thick, brier filled slope, hole 8 is dramatically shortened. The basket is pulled from the bottom, past the shelters, to in front of the shelters on the lawn. White tee is already there (near the beginning of the shelter's parking lot), Blue tee is going to be put on the bottom of the brier filled valley so that you have to throw up and over the briers onto the lawn as opposed to the location by the shoulder of the park road where you would just throw over the briers. opcorn:
Hole 9: Same.
Hole 10: Same.
Holes 11 & original/current 12: These two holes are to be combined into a par 5 that plays continuously towards the soccer fields from 11's tees to 12's new pin placement at the corner of the soccer fields. :thmbdown:
Hole 12: (Not yet in place) Tees will be in a tunnel of pines, playing out to a basket near the trashcan. Very short and much less likely to end up in a neighbor's yard (the biggest complaint of the original course).
Hole 13: The last part of the original hole 13, basket stays put, tees to be placed near the beginning of the line of pines to the right and the rise of the slope to the soccer field on the left. :\
Hole 14: Same. Proposal to combine 14 and 15 shot down.
Hole 15: Same. ^see above.
Hole 16: Same.
Hole 17: Same
Hole 18: New tees to be placed roughly across the road from hole 10's long tee which takes the bend of the road out of play (mostly) and shortens the length; basket already moved from original placement to new one near the ditch (also shortens hole). :\
Hole 1: Same
Hole 2: Same
Hole 3: Hole 3's original Gold tee (the one close to hole 2's tees) is now the Blue tee for a basket installed near the end of the woods that encompass hole 2. White tee is to be moved somewhere along the ridge line the Blue tee sits on, just shorter. Mando will still be in effect on the Blue tee to deter people from throwing into the softball field. :thmbdown:
Hole 4: Plays to Hole 3's original basket from two tees marked on the sidewalk up on the ridge. Mando on left to deter people from throwing into the softball field.
Hole 5: Original hole 5 (infamous par 2) is extinct so the original hole 4 (the last hyzer around the softball complex) is re-numbered as hole 5. Gold tee is gone, the short tee is now the Blue tee and the White tee will be installed eventually.
Hole 6: Same.
Hole 7: Long tee (now Blue) is not deemed too dangerously close to the road and stays put. Basket has been moved to lengthen and straighten hole. :\
Hole 8: Originally close to a 1000' long and primarily a fairway consisting of a thick, brier filled slope, hole 8 is dramatically shortened. The basket is pulled from the bottom, past the shelters, to in front of the shelters on the lawn. White tee is already there (near the beginning of the shelter's parking lot), Blue tee is going to be put on the bottom of the brier filled valley so that you have to throw up and over the briers onto the lawn as opposed to the location by the shoulder of the park road where you would just throw over the briers. opcorn:
Hole 9: Same.
Hole 10: Same.
Holes 11 & original/current 12: These two holes are to be combined into a par 5 that plays continuously towards the soccer fields from 11's tees to 12's new pin placement at the corner of the soccer fields. :thmbdown:
Hole 12: (Not yet in place) Tees will be in a tunnel of pines, playing out to a basket near the trashcan. Very short and much less likely to end up in a neighbor's yard (the biggest complaint of the original course).
Hole 13: The last part of the original hole 13, basket stays put, tees to be placed near the beginning of the line of pines to the right and the rise of the slope to the soccer field on the left. :\
Hole 14: Same. Proposal to combine 14 and 15 shot down.
Hole 15: Same. ^see above.
Hole 16: Same.
Hole 17: Same
Hole 18: New tees to be placed roughly across the road from hole 10's long tee which takes the bend of the road out of play (mostly) and shortens the length; basket already moved from original placement to new one near the ditch (also shortens hole). :\