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Hal Sutton and friends continue work on TPC Treviso Bay in Naples, Florida.

“We tried to keep the lines simple,” Sutton said, “pleasing to the eye, long simple slopes instead of sharp slopes.”
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Sutton says his design trademark is long, sweeping slopes.

And the second green was anything but.

It had sharp slopes, which caused a shadowing effect on the bunkers. This created an illusion. Once again, Sutton didn’t care for it.
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Sutton agreed, more of a sweeping green from front to back or left to right, depending on the angle of the approach shot.
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“It’s just going to be simple,” he said. “Sometimes simple is just better. I think the look is very pleasing to the eye. Sometimes you put a lot of sharp slopes and a lot of shadowing and it looks very unique the first time. But the more you play it the more you don’t like it because it continues to beat you up.”

OK, I’ll admit it - I have no idea what a long, simple, sweeping slope is or how that translates into a design trademark. (Uh, Hal - it’s called “signature” by the way - get with the correct golf course architecture marketing terms please.) If anybody’s got an example of what that means, please feel free to post a picture or explanation.

I’ll go on a limb here and say that long, simple, sweeping slopes are not found at places like, oh, St. Andrews or Ballybunion.

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