My Dream Course

So I've talked elsewhere about routing a "dream course" and I'd put this routing together back in January, but I'd never been able to get back out in the woods to take some pictures. I finally got to go out last week on my birthday, wander around the woods. Here are some images from my dream golf course that has virtually no chance of ever being built.

The aerial and routing, for refreshment:

Existing improved entrance road

Clubhouse location right in the fork of the road

The range location from near the first tee

First tee site, hole would roughly follow the road. Would you look at that sandy soil.

Looking towards #1 green site

Second tee. Hole would play straight out, trees would be removed, green would butt up to the marsh on the left

Second green would be in this stand of trees

Third hole plays from here, up towards the woods, just to the right of that knife of trees coming out. The left edge of the fairway would track roughly in line with the hay bale in the center of the image.

The green would be located just over this natural pond

Close up of the 3rd green site. I think I'd like to have a large right to left slope (towards the camera) coming in from 20 or so yards right of the pond. The slope would be there to give any golfer the chance to avoid the forced carry if they wanted.

As you can see, the trees get a bit more dense beyond the 3rd green site, so pictures don't do much good from there...

This is the far reaches of the landing area on #10. The hole would play directly into the center of the image.

From the other side of the pond, the hole again plays straight down through the field, meadow, whatever you wish to call it.

Hole 11 plays straight away towards the trees in the distance, roughly flat, perhaps slightly uphill.

Hole 12, on the best piece of land, I think, starts from here and plays down into the trees. Sadly the trees are so dense the hole can't really be seen.

This is the view from just off the back of the 12th green

13 plays from here, off into the wilderness, and would hug the marsh/water line.

A look out over the entire open field from what would be the right side of the 13th fairway. From here, the course goes back into the dense woods for a while.

The darker, more vibrant green areas on the map look like this from the ground. There are small creeks in here, not sure how many, but they are not substantial from what I saw, perhaps 5 feet wide at most.

From what would be the 18th green, looking straight down the tree obscured fairway

Looking down the un-improved road, the 18th hole would play diagonally across here, the 17th would run parallel to the road, and the 16th green would be located at the edge of the trees you can see in the distance at the 'end' of the road. Did I mention we had sandy soil?

Well, hope you enjoy.