247golfing
Sep 12, 2005, 02:43 PM
I know this hole has already been discussed some other threads. But I found this little description in Hurdzan/Fry's website and want to share with you guys. I think it was used to be a par 5 but now a par 4.
Devil's Pulpit was shaped by bulldozers, necessitating a land movement of huge proportions to create the contouring and movement of the course. It is modern course design at its limits. Perhaps no other golf hole in the world more clearly proves that first impressions are lasting impressions. The first tee at Devil's Pulpit overlooks an awesome collage of dramatic golf features in the foreground, farmland in the middle ground and a backdrop of Toronto's skyline 35 miles away. The hole is named the Tower Hole because the aiming point for most tee shots is the CN Tower. The tee shot drops 60 feet to the wide, contoured member's fairway, or to an alternative narrow fairway sandwiched between a huge hemlock on the left and a lake on the right.
From the member's fairway No. 1 is a comfortable par 5, while from the "pro" fairway an accurate 4 or 5 iron leaves a putt for eagle. My clients, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, creators of Trivial Pursuit, wanted a dramatic golf course with panoramic vistas. The first hole was evident the minute I saw it, but creating it was extremely difficult. Fifteen acres of additional land had to be purchased, then we had to move 300,000 cubic yards of earth (enough to build a modest 18 hole course) and build a pond on a hillside. What gives the hole its intensity is the shaping of the earth into a land form that invites inspections, teases the golfer to assess distances and directions, and offers a continuously changing kaleidoscope of both light and shadows, color and texture. Players are presented with limitless options to master the hole -- the purest form of strategic design -- with the beauty of the flawless grooming that modern technology allows. Devil's Pulpit was awarded Golf Digest's "Best New Canadian Course" of 1991.
http://www.hurdzanfry.com/devilplt.jpg
Devil's Pulpit was shaped by bulldozers, necessitating a land movement of huge proportions to create the contouring and movement of the course. It is modern course design at its limits. Perhaps no other golf hole in the world more clearly proves that first impressions are lasting impressions. The first tee at Devil's Pulpit overlooks an awesome collage of dramatic golf features in the foreground, farmland in the middle ground and a backdrop of Toronto's skyline 35 miles away. The hole is named the Tower Hole because the aiming point for most tee shots is the CN Tower. The tee shot drops 60 feet to the wide, contoured member's fairway, or to an alternative narrow fairway sandwiched between a huge hemlock on the left and a lake on the right.
From the member's fairway No. 1 is a comfortable par 5, while from the "pro" fairway an accurate 4 or 5 iron leaves a putt for eagle. My clients, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, creators of Trivial Pursuit, wanted a dramatic golf course with panoramic vistas. The first hole was evident the minute I saw it, but creating it was extremely difficult. Fifteen acres of additional land had to be purchased, then we had to move 300,000 cubic yards of earth (enough to build a modest 18 hole course) and build a pond on a hillside. What gives the hole its intensity is the shaping of the earth into a land form that invites inspections, teases the golfer to assess distances and directions, and offers a continuously changing kaleidoscope of both light and shadows, color and texture. Players are presented with limitless options to master the hole -- the purest form of strategic design -- with the beauty of the flawless grooming that modern technology allows. Devil's Pulpit was awarded Golf Digest's "Best New Canadian Course" of 1991.
http://www.hurdzanfry.com/devilplt.jpg