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Rees Jones newest design, The Golf Club of Cape Cod, opened last week. The private club is located in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Looking at the press release and this article on the opening, there’s little that would necessarily be worthy of drawing attention to.

There is an older interview with Jones at GolfonCapeCod.com.

Most of the tees at The Golf Club at Cape Cod are elevated, providing an honest look at the obstacles, allowing the player to clearly envision a safe route to the pin.

Sounds like one of those “it’s all right in front of you” courses.

There are two internal bodies of water that come into play on four different holes, ocean views on two holes, and enough sand placed in cross-bunkers and bunker-laced par 3’s to deliver that quintessential Cape Cod golf course visual.

Looking at the aerial photo and routing on the course’s website, I don’t really see any cross bunkers.

GOCC: When you design a course, you add the tee boxes, so
no matter what the technology has done, the handicap still stays the same. What about the longer tees?

REES: What a longer tee does is to allow lots of people to have tees to play from. If you have a 6,500-yard course, everybody has to play from the same tee to have a challenge, but when you have 7,300, 6,900, 6,300, 5,500 – then you have a golf course for everybody. It aids everybody in the game as long as they pick the proper tee.

GOCC: So there is a limit to where the length makes sense?

REES: Yeah, well, you can narrow the fairways and water the rough and not water the fairways so the ball will then go into the rough. It is like the Dodgers did for their bad infielders. They used to water the infield to slow the ball down.

Well, why not just get rid of the fairways altogether? Wouldn’t that be cheaper?

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