| Championship |
471 |
| Maroon |
427 |
| Teal |
407 |
| Orange |
407 |
| Green |
389 |
| Ocean |
328 |
| Khaki |
328 |
| D. Muirhead |
260 |
Par
(Mens/Ladies) |
4/4 |
Handicap
(Mens/Ladies) |
3/5
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This is a classic par four golf hole.
I wanted to take the symbolic theme further and deeper, to help examine man's ethnocentric focus. In spite of the fragmentation of modern life, we are still powerfully, subjectively centered. We respond strongly to all centers and circles; the earth is a nearsphere and its orbits around the sun. Plato's perfect city of Atlantis was based on seven concentric, circular districs, and was located in the center of the world. So are we.
To extend this circular theme, I have made the green into a circle with additional circular fairway traps to emphasize the compacy, heavy quality of this universal form and its highly symbolic cosmic influence. In this way, the golfer is placed right in the center of the universe. What golfer does not believe this anyway?
The water's edge is on a series of radii, extending the gestalt of the hole. The ball in itself is circular and causes circular ripples as it disappears in the lake. These circles may materialize anywhere, however hard we hope they won't.
In most beliefs, the center is hard to attain. It is an ideal only reached after an arduous journey. In this case you traverse many circular mounds and circular traps to a circular green.
The Yin-Yang green, as far as I know, is the first of it's kind. I had designed one two years ago, for a course in Hokkaido.
Desmond Muirhead |