IanM
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The bunker names on the Old Course are part of the mystique! You can't walk past Hell Bunker without a grin that you are walking past!
PhilTheFragger
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Let’s keep it nice people
Let’s keep it nice people
MiurasFan
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Agreed - well pretty much. Road hole is the only one of those that is widely known imo and would be a 'tough but nothing special' on any other hole or green!
Spectacles is the only non-St Andrews hazard that gets near 'icon' status for me. Though the entire hole could be 'iconic' if describing Royal Troon's 8th!
Or wonder where your picnic lunch is if you can't!
I think there is nice, there is impressive and there is iconic. The number of truly iconic landmarks in golf is very small, probably counted on one hand.
There have been some nice pictures posted but most, me definitely, couldn't name most of them.
There have been some nice pictures posted but most, me definitely, couldn't name most of them.
rulefan
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Or look for your old pack of Hamlets.
garyinderry
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Like it or loath it, this is one.
MiurasFan
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But an icon to (or of) what! The tournament is compelling viewing, but 'the idiots' aren't! Perhaps LIV could create something similar, but thankfully the shotgun start precludes it!
Skytot
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Skytot
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1st time I saw this was yesterday on Peter Finch YouTube channel, I know it’s all about opinions but if I ask my pals tomorrow I bet barely anyone would know this hole / venue
garyinderry
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Its instantly recognisable to any fan of golf and widely recognised as that hole with the stadium around it to many with little or no interest in golf.
garyinderry
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Indeed, but as a temporary structure I have to judge it's claim to "iconic landmark" status as a tad tenuous. Honourable mention, though.
I did wrestle with the temporary nature of it but it ticked too many boxes to omit.
MiurasFan
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And is it really 'worthy of veneration' as per dictionary definition
garyinderry
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To each his own.
sunshine
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PhilTheFragger
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I posted a picture of this hole yesterday. For some reason it was deleted
If you post pics that include casual sexism, then you can expect them to be deleted, we had complaints.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Maybe not a golfing landmark, but in a way it is as this specific view is I suggest instantly recognisable to every watcher of 1970s/early 80s TV Golf - and so in its own way absolutely iconic.
sunshine
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No
Not to me
Don't think so
Sorry
SwingsitlikeHogan
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In that case I guess that you never watched what little golf there was on TV in the 70s and early 80s...and indeed may not know the golf course and the hills and glen (that's a clue) behind, and perhaps the glen is the landmark that for many on here will trigger fond TV and great 'golfer watching' memories.No
Not to me
Don't think so
Sorry
ETA…if a building or geographic feature are allowed as landmarks (see Turnberry’s lighthouse and Alisa Craig) then why not a glen?
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Bdill93
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Not sure if its been mentioned? The most iconic 19th hole?
MiurasFan
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Especially considering who the OP is.I never got to the Jigger Inn, as The Dunvegan (that mentioned earlier) is closer and similarly notable. Though I remember watching The Masters on big screen in a bar overlooking 1st & 18th (perhaps the One Under or the Golf Inn). Certainly memorable, if not iconic.
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