Tuesday
26Aug
"Best golf course we've played all year"
John Hawkins, writing about the popularity of Ridgewood in this week's Golf World:
Although the Barclays is scheduled to return to its old site in what amounts to a 2011 cameo, it won't be a year too late -- Ridgewood was as big a hit as you'll find among 144 guys with $10 million on the line. "Best golf course we've played all year," said Tom Pernice Jr., not the easiest man to please. The old-school look and imaginative medley of holes make this A.W. Tillinghast design a keeper, which doesn't explain why the tour will follow its commercial nose and flee to snazzy-but-raw Liberty National for the 2009 gathering.
"If this one's a 10, that one's a 2," said a veteran who played next year's site last week. But enough on the past and the future, especially when the present packs so much relevance.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 07:31 PM
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Reader Comments (2)
As for the Liberty National Course, players always say how much they respect water as a hazard because the penalty is so final and definite. It is a very demanding driving test with lots of good angles, relatively narrow fairways and extremely good and interesting green complexes and surrounds (Courtesy of Tom Kite).
Let's see what the players say. Sounds like whining from the "veteran" to me. Personally I liked Liberty National but personally prefer Ridgewood to it (although they cherry-picked 18 out of 27, where each nine has a few honestly weaker and so-so holes) for my own game. If I were a tour player, I'd be licking my chops for Liberty National. More than ever one's personal blonde vs. brunette vs. redhead comes to the fore choosing between these two. I hope the wind blows like hell next fall at Liberty.