Great Southern
This one is not on any of the lists, but is a Donald Ross 1908 design, and a local favorite in Gulfport, so I had to play.
It's a very flat piece of land, like all the land around here, ranging, I estimate, from 3" to maybe 6' above sea level. Has to be flooded every hurricane that comes by. The greens are all elevated in typical Donald Ross fashion, in this case also to protect them from the lesser floods. The course has a bit of a linksy feel, since trying to grow a thick carpet of grass would also be futile. That said, it is quite playable, and I never had a bad lie in the fairways.
There are lots of big old trees that are the main hazard.
and steep faces on the bunkers, of course.
Some water, that I managed to avoid
Maybe it's a tribute to the skills of the designer that he creates a fun, playable course with significant obstacles, using only the average-looking plot of land and not much bulldozer time. They advertise the ocean views, but really there are only two holes facing it, and across the beach highway at that.
More pictures.
It's a very flat piece of land, like all the land around here, ranging, I estimate, from 3" to maybe 6' above sea level. Has to be flooded every hurricane that comes by. The greens are all elevated in typical Donald Ross fashion, in this case also to protect them from the lesser floods. The course has a bit of a linksy feel, since trying to grow a thick carpet of grass would also be futile. That said, it is quite playable, and I never had a bad lie in the fairways.
There are lots of big old trees that are the main hazard.
and steep faces on the bunkers, of course.
Some water, that I managed to avoid
Maybe it's a tribute to the skills of the designer that he creates a fun, playable course with significant obstacles, using only the average-looking plot of land and not much bulldozer time. They advertise the ocean views, but really there are only two holes facing it, and across the beach highway at that.
More pictures.
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