Weekend Chat: How Extreme Is Too Extreme?

The usual:

• Introduce yourself if you haven’t commented before.
• Identify the course (and hole?!) in the header image if you can.
• Use the comment section in whatever fashion you like. It’s yours.

Club TFE housekeeping

The third wave of 2023 TFE Events—including the Backyahd at Essex County Club, the Secret Sauce at Kingsley Club, and the Hoot at Old Barnwell and Aiken GC—opens for Club TFE-only registration on Monday, February 13. HERE’S THE LINK YOU NEED.

Your Friday question

Andy’s profile of Kingsley Club, along with Club TFE member Michael Chadwick’s thought-provoking contribution to the comment section, has us thinking about extreme golf courses.

These days, wildness is en vogue among architecture enthusiasts. The adjectives “big” and “undulating” and “crazy” have become closely associated with “fun.” But there must be, at least theoretically, a limit to how much lunacy a design can have before tipping into silliness.

So for you, how extreme is too extreme? What features or dynamics make you say, or might make you say, “Yeah, this course is wild, but it’s not good”?

Are all the things Will Knights has done in the past several years just momentum from the TPC Scottsdale party pit? Thank you, as always, for supporting The Fried Egg.