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How Elite is The Cascades?

January 27th, 2012 by Derek Duncan
One of the first impressions I had playing The Cascades in the Allegheny Mountains of western Virginia was to think how this kind of course would never be built today. Actually that thought came to me around the fifth hole, a big par five that traverses a sidehill fairway and then rises blindly over a shoulder of the same hillside. Most contemporary architects would cut the hill down and use the fill to level the fairway and ... Full Story