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Monday
Jun112012

Some Course Videos From The Olympic Club

I Tweeted these earlier, so for those of you following me on Twitter, my apologies for the redundancy.

The rough, or lack thereof on No. 2 is fairly typical of the rest of the course. There appears to be no graduated rough and only select areas off the tee where rough is dense. It's thicker around greens.

As usual, the production values are slick.

The challenge of hitting No. 4 fairway is explained here.



The dreaded tree off five tee.



I'm not sure if you can hear it, but this is a Keegan Bradley approach into five indicating the nice firmness already in the greens.

And not for the faint of heart, the view from atop the highest 18th hole grandstand.

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Reader Comments (6)

Brilliant! Thanks for that. Geoff.
06.11.2012 | Unregistered CommenterIvan Morris
Nice work, and the best view of the "I - O - U" on No.18 that's been shown in a long time.
06.12.2012 | Unregistered CommenterD. maculata
GEoff: Did you realize that TwitVid doesn't work on iOS devices?
06.12.2012 | Unregistered CommenterJon Moore
Awesome work Geoff! Keep them coming. (How's that bullshit bunker on 17 working out?)
06.12.2012 | Unregistered CommenterChris from DE
The rather benign rough and recent tree trimming strike me as a surprise.
06.12.2012 | Unregistered Commenterpasaplayer
More, please.

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