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...ground. This was particularly true in wind-battered Carnoustie, where nothing in the air is safe. In this part of Scotland, where golf has been played since the 1500s, even breeze-hardened seagulls are swept across fairways like errantly sliced golf balls. But the course, with par fours frequently stretching in excess of 450 yds. (411 m), proved too long for the standard earthbound strategy. That was the Carnoustie challenge: how to develop a shot that wouldn't be at the mercy of the gales but could pierce right through them...
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...preserved, there are thousands of less well publicized Modernist homes on a kind of architectural death watch. The main threat comes from buyers with dreams of tearing them down to make way for McMansions. Or at least for homes without a flat roof, the tricky-to-maintain Modernist feature par excellence...
...three concerns of parents who withdrew their children centered on school quality: 32 percent questioned the strength of the academics, 11 percent cited safety and classroom management issues, and 10 percent pointed to sub-par teaching instruction...
...doesn't stop there. The 288-yd. eighth hole and the 667-yd. 12th, specially lengthened for the tourney, are the longest par three and par five, respectively, in Open history. Oakmont has added some 20 bunkers--there are now 210 traps on the course--and moved many of them closer to the fairways. Plus, since the last Oakmont U.S. Open, in '94, the club has undertaken a clandestine, middle-of-the-night deforestation scheme, against the opposition of many tree-loving members, that better lets in the Allegheny winds and summer heat...