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    Quote Originally Posted by Shreko View Post
    520m par 5, 60m wide, flat fairway, no bunkers. You hit driver down the middle, 290m out and your 3rd shot bounces off rh side of fairway into a hazard that runs entire left side of hole!!! This is what happens at Northlakes
    I don't think 3PP cares what happens to his 4th shot as long as it's not a shank

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrbluu View Post
    I don't think 3PP cares what happens to his 4th shot as long as it's not a shank
    It wasn’t a shank, the course was routed the wrong way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3puttpete View Post
    It wasn’t a shank, the course was routed the wrong way.
    Like I said, it wasn't a shank

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    So if you meant to hit a shank but instead hit it flush dead straight is that a fault in the course's deaign or your fault? I'm confused.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dcanto View Post
    So if you meant to hit a shank but instead hit it flush dead straight is that a fault in the course's deaign or your fault? I'm confused.
    If the ball doesn’t end up where I want it to that’s the course’s fault.

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    Sounds like Macarthur Grange, but I've played both and don't remember that happening to me at North Lakes. Anyway, wheelchairs in the rough now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrbluu View Post
    Like I said, it wasn't a shank
    An I the only one who hears this line in his head being spoken like Arnie's "it's not a tumour!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3puttpete View Post
    If the ball doesn’t end up where I want it to that’s the course’s fault.
    Cool. Thanks for clarifying. 😁

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3puttpete View Post
    If the ball doesn’t end up where I want it to that’s the course’s fault.
    So you planned to hit a shank, it was a perfectly executed shank, it ended up right where you were aiming to shank it with no other logical shot option other than a shank?

    Cool. Sweet analogy mate. I'll give that a solid 5/7.

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    Courty and Bushy may have more info, losing Paradise Palms would be v.disappointing.

    A new school, retirement village and tourist park for Cairns’ northern beaches are all being considered as part of a multimillion-dollar redevelopment plan for Paradise Palms. Golf will no longer be available from mid-June as resort managing director Darren Halpin prepares to lodge a development application with Cairns Regional Council to transform the Kewarra Beach 18-hole course into a new housing estate. The resort and clubhouse facility will remain open. Cairns Post premium members can read the full article via the link below or you can view the article on the Paradise Palms website: http://bit.ly/2CBWOUM

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    Quote Originally Posted by PerryGroves View Post
    Courty and Bushy may have more info, losing Paradise Palms would be v.disappointing.

    A new school, retirement village and tourist park for Cairns’ northern beaches are all being considered as part of a multimillion-dollar redevelopment plan for Paradise Palms. Golf will no longer be available from mid-June as resort managing director Darren Halpin prepares to lodge a development application with Cairns Regional Council to transform the Kewarra Beach 18-hole course into a new housing estate. The resort and clubhouse facility will remain open. Cairns Post premium members can read the full article via the link below or you can view the article on the Paradise Palms website: http://bit.ly/2CBWOUM
    It's been well known (at least locally) that it is shutting down. The real unknown is what will happen next. Rumours of residential development abound, but with no approved DA in place, that could take years, or not happen at all.
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    Played some junior golf at Paradise Palms in the mid/late 1990s while I was a junior member at Cairns GC. Shame to see the course come to this...a far cry from what it was 20 years ago. My Old Man took me there to play for the first time on my 14th birthday and I was fully geeking out.
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    What a shame. Of all of the trips I made up there, I never did get a chance to play there. I did drink more than a few beers at the bar though.



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    It’s about time this goat paddock is turned into a parking lot! Served us better as sugar cane field! Cairns members should be thank full that their green fee income will increase by 0.000002%

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    Wow, only played there in October in my 2 games for the year.

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    A new housing estate in FNQ? Clearly it’s not Darren’s money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jono View Post
    Mt Broughton is shutting at the end of the month. 😞
    Well they stayed open but the course is in a shocking state. They’ve given up on the bunkers and even fairways are like local soccer fields. They’re just trying to keep the greens in a reasonable state at the moment. Very sad to see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by milo-man20 View Post
    Shame, I didn't mind KL as public course. Mind you i played it prob 3 years ago so not sure if the condition has deteriorated since. Decent length and good bunkering and a fair bit of water made it a testing course.
    Kingston Links closing was a sad day. Even tho at times was a bit steep for what it was ($50 on weekends) it was well maintained for a public course (much higher quality than a Yarra Bend or Freeway). One less for us in Melbourne to rotate around now!A lot of other public courses in Melbourne I wouldn’t have minded if they closed down - Tirhatuan, Waverley, Malvern Valley, Ringwood, even Albert Park which is flat as a Grand Prix track. Hopefully they dont touch Waterford! That’s probably the only decent one left around the eastern suburbs.

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    Cessnock is in liquidation it looks like , was this the one sms was at ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy8 View Post
    Cessnock is in liquidation it looks like , was this the one sms was at ?
    Nah he was at the Vintage I think. Cessnock has been struggling for years and it was only a matter of time unfortunately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sydney Hacker View Post
    Nah he was at the Vintage I think. Cessnock has been struggling for years and it was only a matter of time unfortunately.
    I was a member there briefly because it was cheap and they only charged me monthly. They knew I was likely to move interstate sooner rather than later. It was a horrid course. I think Jack Newton only looked out of his glass eye when he designed some holes. Anyway, Daracon saw them coming.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sms316 View Post
    I was a member there briefly because it was cheap and they only charged me monthly. They knew I was likely to move interstate sooner rather than later. It was a horrid course. I think Jack Newton only looked out of his glass eye when he designed some holes. Anyway, Daracon saw them coming.
    I had a couple of games there years ago when it was known as the Oaks, most definitely nothing flash, they didn’t have decent putting surfaces though from memory.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sydney Hacker View Post
    I had a couple of games there years ago when it was known as the Oaks, most definitely nothing flash, they didn’t have decent putting surfaces though from memory.
    The brief time I was there the putting surfaces were about the only thing going for it (and close proximity to the jail).
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    I went there for years every June long weekend, the course had only just improved last year and the greens were pretty good. But a hell of a lot of courses pretty close together, made little sense to me.

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