(Part 1 of 3)
Ahhhh… I can smell it in the air – can you? Â Eraser dust, modeling glue, paper mache’… Â Design-a-Hole season is upon us once again! Â A time where the dreams of Golden Tee golfers from around globe are doodled on a piece of paper, Â judged only to either be crushed or immortalized.
Personally, I love Design-a-Hole!  Since I began at IT five years ago, we in marketing land continuously explored ideas that would be fun for players to take part in.  Honestly – this one was a no brainer!  But as the coordinator of the contest, you have no idea how much joy I take in by the little (usually) emailed nuggets of Golden Tee goodness that await in my inbox each-and-every day of the contest.  Damn you guys are clever!
So far this year, 30 ideas have been sent in and it looks like last year’s record of 50 is going to get blasted out of the water. Â And while I can’t reveal any of this year’s nominations, I thought it would be fun to go through the Design-a-Hole archive and shine a spotlight on some of the ideas that didn’t make the cut in 2008.
In film, it’s the outtakes. Â In music it’s the b-side. Â In Golden Tee, it’s the good, the bad and of course, the ugly. Â Welcome to part one of this three part series, right here at blog.goldentee.com.
Stay Tuned to the Golden Tee Blog for Parts 2 and 3 of Design-a-Hole – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly  (And trust me, “The Bad” and “The Ugly” or even more fun than “The Good”)
Good times,
- DD
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THE GOOD
You know “The Falls” and surley you remember Bert Loftus’ “Frog’s Pond,” as well as other finalists “Steps” and “Beware of Gravity.”  But what you don’t know are the good ideas from last year that narrowly missed the cut – the semi-finalists!  Take a look at what designs interested Larry Hodgson and Jim Zielinski during the initial judging period last year.  And while the designers of these works of art may not be immortalized in Golden Tee,  they can rest easy knowing their ideas can live for ever, right here on the Golden Tee Blog! (Well, until I need to clear hard drive space…)
Gotta love a hole designed like a fishing lure. Very clever and would be fun to play!
Gotta love the CAD work on this design. Kudos, Don! The layout thoroughly impressed the judges, the hole just needed a little extra something and it surely would have made the cut.
- Mmmmmm…. Donutssssss…… Â This hole probably had a shot, but it was the hazard in the middle of the green that ultimately turned off the judges.
- Jim and Larry thought this was a clever layout and would be great fun to play. I think it looks like a mixture of Heather Pointe and Savannah 17! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!
In January, I played at the Frozen Open in Chicago and blew up on the 18th hole in my first qualifying game and may have well posted a DNF in the second it was so ugly. I played well early on but then came undone like Phil Mickelson in a major – sorry Lefty fans.