A course with more water than The LINKS? [Archive]

ERicJ

12-30-2008, 01:03 PM

Maybe the LINKS long lost cousin:

For those of you who have played the Lighthouse course at Como Lake (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=457), one of the local players snapped some amazing pics (http://www.nrdg.net/ching/index.php?action=vthread&forum=2&topic=3399) of the course during a recent flood. Buffalo had gotten around two feet of snow over a few days, then during an uncommonly rapid warm-up it melted and had to go someplace. This is a course with "water in play" for 9 out of 18 holes on a normal day. But this day was anything but normal.

Source: http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showpost.php?p=21578&postcount=28

DPdiscer

12-30-2008, 03:14 PM

At least the water is casual that day at Como Lake Park. If you take the fairway to be 100' wide and then calculate the volume percentage that water takes up, you could compare courses for water hazards that way. I say the Links is King of the water OB and leave it at that.

scoot_er

01-08-2009, 07:43 PM

Ever heard of Fountain Hills? That is where they have the Memorial and nearly all the baskerts are within 30ft of water and most have a pretty wicked slope to the water.

DPdiscer

01-08-2009, 10:11 PM

I have not heard of Fountain Hills. I wonder what its Fairway Water Volume Percentage (FWVP) is? I will have ERic calculate the Links FWVP. Probably in the 20s? But since you mentioned slope to the water from basket, that could be another variable (SWFB). Some courses could have a Fairway Plant Volume Percentage (FPVP). That would have to have a vertical distance involved in its percentage. Kingwood would be in the running for that one. Oops, getting off subject.

scoot_er

01-09-2009, 10:15 AM

I have not heard of Fountain Hills. I wonder what its Fairway Water Volume Percentage (FWVP) is? I will have ERic calculate the Links FWVP. Probably in the 20s? But since you mentioned slope to the water from basket, that could be another variable (SWFB). Some courses could have a Fairway Plant Volume Percentage (FPVP). That would have to have a vertical distance involved in its percentage. Kingwood would be in the running for that one. Oops, getting off subject.

I would say it is a lot easier to throw in the water as most are long par 4's or 350ft holes right on the water. I lost 1-2 discs in 3 rounds at the Links and I would expect 1-2 a round minimum at Fountain.

mr.ed

01-10-2009, 10:53 PM

I had a chance to play Fountian Hills on a driving trip to Vegas about five years ago on or about July 6th. It was 122 deg at 6:00 in the evening. Had the lake not been drained for maintenance, I would have lost 6 to 8 discs. One of the most brutal rounds of golf I have ever played.
Mr Ed