Ranking the Top Cut-Down Trees From Iconic Courses

16 at Seminole. You're looking at it from the green. So if you can see my cursor here, if you're watching on YouTube, you know the tee box is kind of back here-ish. Like this is the par 5 15th going down this way. The green's over there and the tee's kind of back here. So when you're looking at, and this is an older image, like these palm trees where you can push it up. The safe line is over here with a pretty straightforward approach shot in a really tough and slow green. I'll say that, but I just spoke with Jim Wagner on Tuesday and he had said that there's going to be a cross bunker over there now. So it's going to be a very challenging little layup now off that tee. So, and all the more reason why, every time I stand on this tee, just asking the caddie, which one of those palm trees when we try to hit it over? Just smash driver over the top as long as you can. And I always feel like it's, depending on where your round is at that point, it's like an exciting little moment of, can I carry these things all the way? Can I hit one last big drive? And I just, I love a good palm tree. And just this grouping of all the different shapes that Seminole takes, that's an easy visual for me, just imagining that row of palm trees on that right edge as the whole dog legs left to right. It's 16, it's a verge to my brain. So the 16 is similar to my next set of trees that I'm proposing. Okay, my last one, and you're very familiar with this one, the 11th hole at Monterey Peninsula. Oh yeah. Yes, it's just good memories of being at the AT&T. This is the tee box that we would play. And it's just that set of trees behind the green. You walk up the stairs, there's some rocks that kind of sit adjacent to this tee. And you get there and you're like, this might be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. And if I'm not mistaken, is that Spyglass in the distance or is that Cypress? So like way out in the distance, if you're looking way out here on the peninsula, that's Cypress over there. That's Cypress, right. Yeah, yeah. And then Spyglass is over here down here in this little. Spyglass kind of weaves its way into, I mean, Spyglass and Cypress, if you remember, I mean, this is imprecise, but like that par three third hole at Spy. That's right there, yeah. It's kind of coming down the hill, like right over here, like looking across. I mean, this is imprecise, but like that's, you're generally looking at the peninsula. It's amazing that you have this view and I'm gonna get killed for not knowing this, but I think this is a shore. You also have 14 dunes way out on the ocean where you have to cross a 17 mile drive to hit that shot on the ocean. That was my first time seeing that hole this year. So good, man. Yeah, I never played the dunes, but so this, from a tree standpoint, the way it frames the back of the screen. So I've had like a decent mix of trees that you've had to maneuver and play through with whether it be the Marion tree or the tree at Sawgrass. This is kind of like my favorite visual tree that frames the hole. And then you have, let's see, what was the other one that I did? Yeah, whatever. Anyways. We're getting lost in the trees, metaphorically and literally. Yeah, no, I like that, because that's kind of how I feel about like that fourth tee box at Pam here. It's not necessarily in play, it's just sort of a feeling that it gives you when you're up there on the tee box. I think, listen, as someone who didn't compete competitively in golf, that was a good word choice there, to stack competitively twice in a row there. But as someone who did not play high level golf, you play in the final group with the masters, you won on tour. As someone who was a spectator first and foremost, I can't do this list without naming the tree. The tree at Augusta National Golf Club, the meeting point. If you go to the masters, and you can't take your phone in, and you're trying to meet up with your friends, or someone else in the business world, whatever it is, it's very simple. You just bring an index card or a notebook and a wrist watch. It's a great finish. I'm gonna get lunch at noon and 115th tree, meet me up there. And it is the tree. Good call. That's a good call. That's a fantastic tree. My honorable mention, Wileya, the 16th hole. Wileya, yeah. Wileya. We're already leaving the, we leave there for the PGA Tour, and now I can't even pronounce the name of the big place. Wileya. So that would be an honorable mention. The other honorable mention, still in Hawaii, is now these are entering trees that have been removed. This has been my screensaver for forever. This is the seventh hole at Kapalua. With apologies to your children. It's not there anymore. I don't know how you sit there and cut this tree down. It's not there anymore. So pay your respects if you're ever playing Kapalua and you look over there to the right. That tree used to frame just that beautiful Pacific Ocean in the background. And then on the other note of trees that are no longer there, which you can do a long list of trees that have been cut down that probably shouldn't have, the Eisenhower tree at Augusta National. I think that's one that is pretty quick to come to mind for a strategic tree that is no longer there. Well, that was a storm, right? Wasn't that the storm a couple years back? That wasn't a digital cut down. Yeah, I'm saying it's no longer there. Yeah, got it, got it, got it, yeah.