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• HamdenPro 2,410 Posts

  Mon, Jul 25 2022 2:03 PM

  

   

  

  

• SamSpayed 4,895 Posts

  Mon, Oct 3 2022 6:41 PM

  I found what appears to be a man watching the green behind Pinehurst #18

  

  EDIT:  Looks like they're statues 

• HamdenPro 2,410 Posts

  Mon, Oct 3 2022 6:47 PM

  Great catch Sam

  

  

• HamdenPro 2,410 Posts

  Thu, Oct 6 2022 9:11 AM

  18th hole - Pinehurst

  SamSpayed, in his picture above, actually picked up 4 figures -

  

  As Sam had already deduced, the figures are statutes (or sculptures).

  The figures, from left to right, are Donald Ross (Golf Course Architect), Richard Tufts (Grandson of the founder of Pinehurst and eventual owner/manager), Robert Dedman, Sr (purchased Pinehurst out of Bankruptcy in 1994) and the iconic Payne Stewart in his famous victory stance).

  This area is known as Pinehurst's "Walk of Fame"

  Payne Stewart:

  

  Donald Ross and Richard Tufts:

  

  Robert Dedman, Sr:

  

  Donald Ross and Richard Tufts:

  

  

  

  

   

  WGT is pretty cool, in so many ways - IMO

  
  

  
  

  
  

• ScottHope 10,085 Posts

  Thu, Oct 6 2022 1:54 PM

  

  That has to be one of the oddest posed statues I think I have ever seen!

• HamdenPro 2,410 Posts

  Thu, Oct 6 2022 5:24 PM

  ScottHope:

  That has to be one of the oddest posed statues I think I have ever seen!

  No pose, it was the real deal!

  

  It appears that it was photographed by so many, just about every angle was covered.

  I think this one would have been more difficult to display..

  

  Do not think anyone ever saw John Daly jump like that!!

  EDIT: Just "google" - "Payne Stewart Victory Pose".

  The "victory pose" was when he won the 1999 US Open at Pinehurst. A sad comment I read..

  "What if I told you that four of the best golfers in the world would battle to the final hole at the U.S. Open on one of the country's most historic courses, with the game's most popular announcer calling the action, all while one of the key players was waiting to hear if he'd have to leave the course at any minute to be by his wife's side for the birth of their first child, and that in an unimaginably tragic turn, the winner wouldn't live to see the end of the year?"

  https://www.golfdigest.com/story/us-open-payne-stewart-pinehurst-remembered
  

• ScottHope 10,085 Posts

  Fri, Oct 7 2022 12:55 AM

  Thanks Steff. Maybe I worded my response incorrectly. I am aware that the statue was modelled on a real life event. But I'm not sure it was the right way to go to honour the man.

• SamSpayed 4,895 Posts

  Fri, Oct 7 2022 11:07 AM

  ScottHope:

  Thanks Steff. Maybe I worded my response incorrectly. I am aware that the statue was modelled on a real life event. But I'm not sure it was the right way to go to honour the man.

  What would be the right way, then?

• HamdenPro 2,410 Posts

  Fri, Oct 7 2022 11:21 AM

  SamSpayed:

  What would be the right way, then?

  a comic book perhaps?

• gonfission 2,229 Posts

  Fri, Oct 7 2022 11:38 AM

  Who gave Steff the book of matches? Give her a pallet, she's going to need them

  She has some of the best INNOCUOUS burns I've ever witnessed in this ...Arena