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Originally Posted by Rainger99
I don’t know why they built Richmond as a pitch & putt instead of as an executive. It is 18 holes and the total length is about 1300 yards. You could easily put a nine hole executive on the piece of land.
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Have you played Richmond? I have. The total length might be 1300 yards, but there's no way there's enough real estate there to make it an executive or at least one worth playing. When you start building holes over 150 yards you actually need a reasonable width for a fairway. Richmond is already extremely tight even for a pitch n putt. The width allotted for each hole is quite narrow. In fact there's at least 3 holes on that course where it's not difficult to accidentally land your drive on a different green than you're aiming for.
Playing on Richmond it's very obvious it was built as a buffer to the turnpike. Seems like that's why March Bend Pitch n Putt was built as well. In the case of Richmond though, they probably could've made it an Executive but it would probably mean an extra 20 homes not being built to create the extra space. Of course that means less profit for the developer. Would've been a great location for an executive though.