Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 5, ft. Mike DeVries
Architect Mike DeVries steps into the Salon with Jim Urbina and Derek Duncan to discuss arguably the granddaddy of all design topics, routing. The long and winding conversation touches on the exposures of Cape Wickham, sacrificing extraordinary holes for the sake of rhythm and continuity, routing around natural greensites, if routing is a skill that improves over time, laying out Kingsley Club over difficult terrain, “throwing the scorecard away,” resisting building “concepts” into course routings and opinions on the 18th hole at Whistling Straits.
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2 Replies to “Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 5, ft. Mike DeVries”
Derek, you are a great contributor to architecturally themed journalism. Generally, you prepare well, are fluent in language and you get interesting guests. Uneven sometimes, but you know that without being told.
You had the chance to talk about the Lido competition for aspiring architects to produce a single hole design in the style of Alister MacKenzie. Urbina has been a judge. Mike (whom I call a friend) could have spoken to that as a true MacKenzie devotee.
Urbina is a good guy, but his contribution is more like that of a drinking pal at about 10 pm. Still coherent, but too many words, too emotional. You follow him there, I think in part because you are a good guy too.