This Reversible Golf Course Blew Our Minds | Adventures In Golf Season 4
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- čas přidán 21. 10. 2019
- Same 18 holes, same 18 greens, two completely different golf courses. Michigan is home to America’s only truly reversible course, and Erik’s mind gets partially blown playing it on this Adventures In Golf, presented by United.
Here’s a brief rundown on how The Loop works:
There are two routes, Red and Black. On days ending in even numbers, golfers play the Black routing. Odd days = Red routing.
Let’s say you tee off from on No. 1 on a Black day. That same spot is where you’d finish your round on No. 18 just 24 hours later on the Red.
Another example, being on the 6th tee on a Black day also means being on the 13th fairway on Red.
It’s all kinda bananas.
Even if you’re terrible at math (like us), you can still appreciate how pure either layout is without getting bogged down with the numbers.
Erik also sat down with famed course designer and architect Tom Doak to understand his inspiration for this truly unique experience.
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I often play a different fairway on the same hole
I still count it as a fairway shot
Harper Russell I get that. But you are playing the same 9 twice. You're still teeing off on the same tee boxes and having the same approach shots into the same positioned pins.
Most who are going to play Forest Dunes aren't coming back the next day to play the "other 9".
A one day trip to the course and you are playing the Dunes course and not wanting your time on The Loop.
Same or I play it from across the road
Toasty Brew hahahaha me too
Same
I love this idea and I so want to play this course.....BOTH WAYS! Great job EAL
Do it Rick! Would make a great video.
Thanks Rick!
Do it! We have a bunch of beautiful golf courses in Northern Michigan. You should try several others as well. Black Lake Golf Club & Tree Tops to name a couple.
Maybe play this course for your match up against gm golf?
If you play this course please contact me!!! I live very close to here!!! This could be a dream come true!!!!
"I'd like to buy a house on the 18th green."
Real estate agent: "which days would you like it to be on the 18th?"
Nah - It's a time share!
Michigan golf is the best!!! So much variety within the state...
This is such a professional series. The quality is like taken from a movie. Good job and keep it up! /From Sweden
If you haven’t already you should check out his CZcams channel - Erik Anders Lang.
It’s amazing!
Totally. That intro with all the shots from different landscapes was awesome!
Let’s make this interesting....send alternating 4-somes on alternating courses and let the battle royale commence.
that dog seems to be stuck in full speed mode...
Turtle mode gear was stripped
Dutchess was zoomin’!!
Interesting to hear most ppl enjoy the second routing better, having played both I tend to agree. The thing that stuck with me is how Tom had to design it to fit logistically. IE Red 7 and Black 12 are both drivable par 4's, however they have different greens but happen on the same piece of the property using the same fairway. So every par 3 one side, another par 3 has to occur at the same property location, but on a TOTALLY different side of the "golf course" Again really hard to understand w/o being there but so many special traits that make it one of a kind. Thank you Tom for being nerdy enough to dream up, and thank you Lew for being crazy enough to make it happen!
Same' amount of land, two ways to play. Really creative idea!
''Bryson Dechambeau would love this place'' oh lord that got me cracking
The ending feels a bit rushed but other than that a great episode again.
I didn't even think about the benefit of being able to mow the back 9 every day without interrupting golfers, yet completely mow all 18 holes in 2 days. That's efficiency.
How would you mow the back 9 when people are playing? sorry not following lol
@@stefanodefilippis2535 you do it in the morning before the first group out catches up. If you start mowing on the 10th hole, you have almost 4 hours till the first tee time will catch you at 18
Played both ways back in July. AMAZING course(s)!! I literally couldn't recognize the Black course after just playing the Red less than 24 hours earlier. Also, probably the best greens I've ever seen or played in my life. Just immaculate! Such a fun course too... some CRAZY greens and you can play so many different shots on the ground AND through the air.
I have played it a few times and think it gets better each time. In addition to playing both ways, the course conditions, grass, nuanced undulations, make this a truly unique experience. Well done on your review EAL!
Have played this course several times as it’s 10 minutes from my cabin in Michigan. Highly recommend
GraniteBees you should invite some of us to your cabin then so we can all go and play there! 😊
John Blakeney if you can handle no power and no running water for a couple days, deal
What a cool concept. If it weren't for AIG no one outside the area would ever know about it... that is the true gift of AIG... knowledge... well done EAL.. well done...
YES!!! I've been waiting for this one so long!!! My favourite course to play!
Historic Belvedere Golf club in Charlevoix and Forest Dunes in Roscommon, Michigan are on my bucket list because of Scratch. Hope to see some more sweet courses come from here.
hope u did or make it to play both great courses at Arcadia bluffs. you'll think u died and went to heaven
Omg I don’t miss those early mornings - mowing greens, moving cup positions, and such by 6:30 a.m.
Finally an adventure that we share in common! Love Forest Dunes!
I had a tournament there, it’s really beautiful. When you hit the ground with your club it sounds hollow too. Wild stuff and tons of fun
I like how this starts without music and really soft... I was expecting Golf (which is usually a calm sport) and I got that
This is such a fun course. Played the Black, haven't played the Red. Glad you made it to some amazing Northern Michigan Golf!!
Played there 2 years ago on a golf trip and it doesn’t get better then this! The loop is amazing and is a must to experience! Don’t forget about Forrest Dunes which every hole is a signature hole! Top notch service from the club house to the houses you can stay on the property.
I love dog owners who take there pups literally everywhere. What a wholesome life that doodle must have.
Brilliant concept , another fascinating vlog Erik!!
EAL, I love your stuff! Happy to see some attention for my hometown.
Yet another great EAL offering/spiritual outing and yet one more destination added to the bucket list!
Played the Loop and Dunes a few weeks ago. Amazing courses.
Exceptional story telling and production value! Best golf content on CZcams right now!
What a marvelous testament to the joy of golf!
Great video and it definitely caught my attention! Next trip to Michigan I may need to play a few rounds here. Thanks for sharing.
This is going on a very short list of must play courses. Thanks for bringing this gem to us.
Great to have you back in Michigan Erik! Can’t wait to have you back!
Another interesting vid on golf and it's wonderful idiosyncrasies
Thanks Erik
Wow...what a concept. Love it.!
Wow that's a mindblowing concept. That would be so cool to have on youre homecourse. After a few rounds you know your shots but that is just incredible to think that way of playing it reverse ❤ awesome. Thanks Erik always love your content
As if golf doesn’t ask you to think too much already!
Awesome 😎
My philosophy of golf is, If I’m going to pay to play, I’m going to see as much of the course as I can. Woods, ruff, sand, water, parking lot, etc...
PLENTY of great golf in Michigan!!
Representing the great state of Michigan! Awesome to see AIG make a visit!
Michigan - where its too cold to play for 4 months and too hot for another 4 and too wet for the other 4?
@@lawrencesimmons5093 you never know what weather you'll get haha!
Roscommon is real close to where I live! That’s so cool to see you somewhere I can relate too! Love this!
Great Video! HUGE FAN of the reversable course. As kids (growing up North of Detroit Michigan) my friends and I made a 3 hole course around storm water field. We played both clockwise and counter clockwise. I would love to see more courses experiment with dual routing.
First time watching the new intro sequence and i gotta say u gotta be talented to hit ur ball off course so many times and find it
Fantastic as always mate
Great video. I'd love to visit this course! Keep it up man! 👌
Often I have said I would love to play this whole this course backwards.
Glad to see I’m not the only one that thinks that way. I’m glad Somebody was able to do it.
Just added another course to my bucket list.
I played a reversible 9 hole golf course several times near New Haven, Connecticut back in the '80's. By being reversible you got to play 18 holes on a nine hole course without repeating the same 9 holes. I remember that they built it that way so that the wouldn't use as much land. I wish I could remember the name of the course. All I do remember is that it was fun and inexpensive to play.
Played Forest Dunes on my way to Tree Tops last year and it was one of the best courses I've played. Didn't even know the Loop was there.
Well... now I know where I want to make a golf trip next summer. That looks awesome!
I like the dog frolicking about the course
Great video Erik! I'm a Michigander and this course is very high on my list
This season's intro is badass!!
Played it today! Loved it with the chilling wind all! Come visit it's worth the ride!
👀 wow ! 🤯... and I really like that intro
I used to play a par three course where we would make up our own holes by teeing off different tee boxes to different greens. Much fun.
I ❤ how you always walk the courses instead of riding Eric! 👍👍
How awesome you were able to meet one of your favorite course architect!
I drove 5 hours round trip one morning, to play the Loop. Still the most unique course I've played to date.
Silvies Valley Ranch in Eastern Oregon has the same concept behind it, really interesting and fun
Amazing golf course. Glad to only be a short drive away. The other course is superb as well. We go often.
Love the heron scenic shot too at 9:49
I live 20 minutes from Forest Dunes! Played it many times and I have many friends who work there. My friend got my out there this year and it was great! Sounds like your ball is landing on a spring board though.
I have played this course it is beautiful and some of the best golf I have ever played
Love this!!! 😍
4:42 "The last hole on 18" Good one Erik
If you have a pretty flat place to put a course I don't know why you wouldn't want to make them a loop. This is brilliant! I used to play my local track backwards towards the tees when it would get dark and it was always fun and different playing the holes backwards.
Does this mean he was playing ‘FLOG’ then? 🤔
on certain days while playing golf - I do feel like I am playing flog - even to the point of pain :)
Made my golf bucket list
Just took a golf trip there. I preferred Forest Dunes, but I found The Loop fascinating. We played it on successive days and only then did I appreciate the placement and "tilt" of the sandtraps so you only see them from one direction. The waste areas were pretty easy to get out of.
Weird! Great swing Erik!
Gives a whole new meaning to the term,' the back nine'!
This is amazing!
Cool idea, very unique and interesting
Live an hour away. Im going there in the spring now. Never knew it existed until now
I am freaked! Imagine this: JUST TODAY I was waiting for med appointment, picked up this month's Golf Magazine Oct. 2019, and saw their featured article about Top Golf Courses... It was Forest Dunes in Roscommon MI. 9 hours ago!! I played
ONE TIME IN SIX YEARS since I retired with freaking arthritis. I used to devour Golf Magazine each month, but havent read it much in last 20 years.
By the way, that article recommended canoeing on the Au Sable River... I took my sons on that exact route 25 years ago. Current was fast!
(Back when I was alive, I played to about 8 to 10 handicap, best round 71. Lying? "No more than usual..."
Best golf lesson? June 1970, by a blind golfer. (He had eyesight when he learned to golf.)
He placed his hand on my back, waist high. Had me take a couple of real swings... Diagnosis: I needed to flex my knees more. "Like sitting myself down on a bar stool, not stiff."
...Funny: this was in Kentucky, in a DRY COUNTY (no bars in whole county!) and this outing was sponsored by my seminary, which encouraged abstaining.
No, I couldnt make these stories up...
Spend the night, it's worth it.
I'm extremely sad I didn't know you were in my home state! Great video.
What this world really needs right now is a new golf course.
One year at the course I was a looper on, they were going to close the following season to re-adjust some course contouring on the greens & work on drainage. So at season's-end weekend, they played it as the "Demolition Derby," essentially playing the course backwards: tee boxes set on the greens and you played toward the temporary greens-style cup & flagstick on the tee box. It was interesting. The country club clientele pretty much sucked anyway so it didn't make a whole lot of difference but made club selection really tricky.
The Loop & Forest Dunes are both great course's! The Loop has the widest fairways I've ever played on. Which is good thing! Lol
You should check out Bobby Jones. Another reversible course in the US
This is amazing.
Very cool. We have one 9 hole course in the Netherlands which plays two ways. It’s a great concept and wouldn’t mind to see that more often.
This whole area will remind people of the Pinehurst region. Except that Michigan in the summer is unparalleled :)
I’ve played the course before! In the black direction!
Course Architect repping the New South Wales GC shirt which is in Sydney, Australia!!! Cool little easter egg for all the Aussies
TOC at St. Andrews is reversible. I love that Tom Doak went with the concept, but this is not a new thing, including the necessary crossover at some point where golfers have to time things to not be in the line of fire. In terms of land usage, it is by far a more economical design with a championship course being able to be placed on a 100 acre sickle of land. Love the Home of Golf. RGC is like watching a short movie. Appreciate the artistry EAL. Thank You.
Great show, but please make Season 4 episodes longer... feels slightly like a trailer for the main event --- Keep 'em coming EAL... cannot get enough!
You should visit "the Links Valley" in Ermelo the Netherlands.. AWESOME reversible course!!
Great idea!
I don’t know a reason why I like this series but it’s interesting as crap
Other golf course management should watch this for ideas. Great series.
I'd like to see more variety when playing. Swap front 9 to back 9, change playing order, invent different routes, etc...
Take suggestions from members and get them involved. Golf needs to grow!
I live in Michigan! ill have to check this out!
Great idea sure towns with limited space could add this type of course
Intro gives me chills everytime
I've had an idea similar to this for ages. A practice range, uphill dog leg par five with a green at 130 yards, par 3, and another at 400,par 4, with the last being the par 5 at 530 yards. Then tee up at the par 5 green and shoot down hill to any green.
So cool!
Very cool!
Whoever does your cinematography is brilliant
In The Netherlands there is the reversible 9 holes The Links Valley...
I was waiting to see who would play in Michigan first....you, Pete, or Rick.....and looks like you win!! I live 1 1/2 hours away!!! Would love to meet up sometime. Could show you some nice courses north of Roscommon!!