高尔夫设计不得不读的经典

高尔夫设计不得不读的经典——圣安德鲁斯热42徐松2011-01-20 10:21 发起新话题返回分享到：QQ空间新浪微博腾讯微博人人网引言：当我急切的想要进入那个光彩耀人的黄金时期时，却发现总是少了一点什么，萌芽时期的设计师虽然不多，但是对于设计的贡献却不仅仅是他们所作出来的，那个时代所诞生的那么多球场，很多都是在自然母亲的怀抱中孕育的，它们才应该是这个时期的主角，而最典型的代表莫过于圣.安德鲁斯。

对了，怎么可能忘掉高尔夫的麦加圣地——圣安德鲁斯，这里是每一个高尔夫爱好者的梦想之地，600多年的历史，在这里举行过无数的比赛，发生过太多的故事，而讲到这个时期对设计的贡献，永远不可能漏掉它的存在。

圣安德鲁斯一共有七个球场，还有一些小球场，而最让人陶醉的就是老球场。

老球场是现存最古老的球场，几百年的历史，却依然保留着原始的风貌，所有林克斯球场的特征都可以在这里找到，虽然后来经过一些设计师的调整，却没有失去古朴的自然风貌，说是大自然的鬼斧神工造就了它，一点也不为过。

老球场虽然是很久以前诞生的，在它的身上却完全可以发现如今最时髦的理念的体现：战略性的、冒险的、惩罚的球洞等等，它的很多球洞都堪称经典，被后来的设计师们争相复制。

它已经成为一部高尔夫设计方面的经典，大自然所赋予它的经典内涵为一代又一代的设计师们所景仰，很多设计大师都是在这里吸取营养，并融入到自己的设计风格之中，才成就了后来一个个的设计大师……。

关于这个神秘的球场，要说的会很多很多，后人对它的研究也从来没有间断过……。

网上的资料也很多很多，这里选了一篇简短的，与大家共享：The Old Course at St. Andrews圣.安德鲁斯老球场SCOTLAND 苏格兰‘Anyone who raves about the Old Course after just one or two rounds there is either a liar or a fool,’ says David Fay, Executive Director of the USGA. Fay relates that it was not until he served as a referee in the 1990 Open Championship there and spent four days walking the course and watching the game’s best tack their way round it that he beganto appreciate the most famous course in golf.“任何经过短短一轮或者两轮球以后就对老球场赞不绝口的人，不是骗子就是傻瓜”David Fay（USGA执行董事）如是说，Fay讲到，他1990年在老球场作为英国公开赛的裁判，花了四天时间去走场，然后看选手们采取的各种战略，才开始赏识到这个最有名的球场。

More than any other course, St. Andrews warrants (and of course has received) study. While the land is basically flat, it is a continuous ribbon of crumpled links land that hides much of itself from view. Many rounds are required until the player knows what is out there on every tee and, therefore, where to go and where not to go. It is only with this knowledge that the player appreciates the tremendous amount of strategy involved in playing the Old Course.比其它球场更胜的是，圣.安德鲁斯是学习的楷模（当然也被学习过）。

这里的土地基本上是平的，连绵起伏的林克斯地带，使得自身大部分被隐藏。

许多地方都需要选手知道前面是什么，哪里是可以去的，哪里是不可以的。

只有掌握了这些，选手在打老球场时才能够用到各种各样的战略。

After a few holes, the overall strategy becomes apparent: Drive left (where there’s all the room in the world) and face an awkward approach or drive right (typically between gorse or out of bounds on the right and bunkers on the left) and have a simpler approach. At St. Andrews, hitting the fairways and greens does not count for a lot — one could hit every fairway and green in regulation and still not score better than 80.几个洞之后，总体的战略似乎变得清晰起来：向左边开球（总是有落球空间）将面临一个难的接近球；向右边开球（特别是右边是金雀花或OB左边是沙坑时）将会有一个简单的接近球。

在圣.安德鲁斯，上球道和果岭并不值太多——你可以很有规律的将每一杆放在果岭或球道上，但仍然不会比80杆好。

It is important to play many rounds to encounter the full variety of hole locations. With such large, undulating greens, the hole location can significantly effect the exactness of play that is required. With the 2nd hole, for example, if the hole is left the player can attack the hole only from the right side of the fairway as the big left-to-right undulations that guard the left side of the green will thwart any approach shots from the left side. With a back-right hole location, the entire hole becomes relatively benign and forgiving.多打几轮球，完全的熟悉球道是很重要的。

拥有起伏不断的大果岭，球道的位置就会很大程度影响到击球的准确性。

以2号道为例，如果选手只能从右边球道攻击果岭，这个从左向右倾斜的大果岭将会淘汰所有从左边来的球。

搭配一个右后方位置的果岭，整个球道就变得相对温和宽容了。

However, the main need for many rounds over the Old Course is to encounter it in every type of wind and weather. Then the player will appreciate that every bunker can be in play, given a certain wind. With a number of the traditional out-and-back links courses, there is a particular wind that best shows off the course. For example, at Royal Aberdeen the preferred wind would be behind the player going out and against him coming home so that the less interesting and less dramatic back nine has the wind to keep the player’s attention.可是，更主要的是要在老球场遭遇各种不同类型的风和气候。

在特定的风力下，选手们会感谢每一个沙坑都可以打。

在许多的传统林克斯球场中，都有一个特别适合球场的风向。

例如，在Royal Aberdeen俱乐部，最好的风向是前九洞顺风，后九洞逆风，这样的话后面九个不好玩的球洞就多了几分乐趣。

At St. Andrews, however, each wind brings out different, but not necessarily better, characteristics and challenges in each hole. With the 14th, for example, the hole plays extremely long into the wind and requires the player to think his way through all three shots to negotiate the hole’s many defenses. With the wind helping, however, many of the bunkers do not come into play, but the shallow, raised green is most difficult to find with an approach shot of any length as the ball will make a mad rush for over the green. No other course adapts itself so well to all winds.在圣.安德鲁斯，每一种风有不同的结果，不一定是好的，对每个球道的特点与挑战都有影响。

以14道为例，这个长的球道在有风时，需要选手认真的思考三击的各种组合。

当然，在风的作用下，很多沙坑都不是问题，但是那些浅的、凸起的果岭，就很难选择那一击，球总会疯狂的冲过果岭。