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Wednesday
07Feb2007

Running (Late) Horse

Golf World's John Strege reports on the new Tour event site in Fresno, which needs to be ready by October. Looks ready to me based on this Fresno Bee photo:
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BRITISH OPEN conditions!!!
02.7.2007 | Unregistered CommenterDoug D.
So Geoff...I hear Fresno is beautiful over the summer...

Think of the promotional opportunities (branding opportunity) if you rode to the rescue of the townsfolk of the Central Valley!, and the course looked great by tournament time!!

This story is actually very sad, because the tournament was supposed to benefit a Veteran's home and relief charity in the area...

Can it be done right, and in time, with the right turf type?

02.7.2007 | Unregistered CommenterScott
Bring your sand wedge.
02.8.2007 | Unregistered Commenterkeith86
Invest in sod farms. Now. You won't regret it.

Unless you also hold stock in the sponsor.

In which case you'd probably break even.
02.8.2007 | Unregistered CommenterScott S
Are the "Horse" courses related- Wild Horse, Running Horse and Doak's new Wicked Pony?
02.8.2007 | Unregistered CommenterSteven T.
ST, sounds more like strip clubs than golf courses. Based on the picture, the pros would be better off there anyway.
02.8.2007 | Unregistered CommenterSmolmania

Can't wait to hear the doublespeak on this topic from yours truly......Ty Votaw, b/c you know Finchem will be too busy searching for new markets and title sponsors to address the ones he has.


Our Brand is so strong, title sponsors sign up without a golf course to host an event!
02.8.2007 | Unregistered CommenterJimmy

Will the tournament be played under perfered lies?
02.8.2007 | Unregistered Commentertjrenolds
In October, will they use 10w-40 on the greens?
02.8.2007 | Unregistered CommenterFour-putt
Doesn't look any worse than some of the munis I've played on.

Is Fresno that bad? Looks kinda like Dubai from this angle...
02.8.2007 | Unregistered CommenterJohn G
My dad played on a lot of sand greens that were oiled up while he was in the Air Force in the Phillipines. I've read about one or two courses still here that have them. He said it took about 3 years to adjust when he came home and started playing on bent grass greens in the Philadelphia area (and this was in the days prior to 13s on stimpmeters). Could be a novel exercise for the Tour?
02.8.2007 | Unregistered CommenterSmolmania
It reminds me of a muni course in Texas in the heat of Summer.
02.8.2007 | Unregistered CommenterBrad F

Running (Late) Horse certainly can't be in the "running" for the newly vacant July 4th date.
02.8.2007 | Unregistered CommenterGlenn
If it still looks like Dubai in October then Tiger and D-Marco should feel right at home.
02.8.2007 | Unregistered CommenterArdmore Ari
"Seeding of the course is not expected to commence until May, still enough time for Running Horse to deliver a playable surface"

Oh, what different worlds we live in. Up in my neck of the woods, we usually have to wait about five years before fairways and greens on a new course "settle" and become consistant.
02.8.2007 | Unregistered CommenterHawkeye
If they do "seed" the course, the fairways will not have much, if any, of the thatch layer that acts like both a cushion when hitting down and through the ball & also when it lands. Since 60-100 yds of bounce, bounce, bounce, roll, roll, roll will make the course play a bit shorter, my bet is that they sod the course. It would be very hard to get the roughs to grow-in thick enough in one summer.
02.9.2007 | Unregistered CommenterTim


More like Running (DRY or BAREBACK) Horse.
02.10.2007 | Unregistered CommenterBilly D.

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