Film room: Omni Bedford springs

[jswine]

Did people complain about this when it came out? Because it was great

NLU Film Room: Omni Fields Ranch East

[RyMo]

@FamousFoot

YOTB to chipper

Literally why I (recently) joined this community.

[golf4miami]

I do wonder a bit if the Omni Film Rooms are suffering a little from the same issue the NLU guys felt after committing to do so many Crash Course podcast episodes? A sense of same-ness?

[BigtimePolecat]

@OnOff

Six years ago I was a very experienced golfer and if you had showed me this video I would have thought the course looks pretty cool #pure.

I wish people were still capable of forming their own opinion, rather than just following the herd and parroting whatever Golf Twitter deems is a good course.

You’re still allowed to like a course even if it doesn’t have 3 templates

[mshriver3]

if anything people should be complaining that Randy and Poosh played the Fazio course at Barton Creek when there is a Coore Crenshaw.

The Faz course seemed decent though!

[mshriver3]

and that C&C is probably the least interesting of their courses I’ve played!

[OnOff]

@BigtimePolecat

I wish people were still capable of forming their own opinion, rather than just following the herd and parroting whatever Golf Twitter deems is a good course.

You’re still allowed to like a course even if it doesn’t have 3 templates

For sure.

As people can tell on here, I like to fit in with my opinions.

[matthew823]

There’s some of this for me. I think this series just feels vaguely unfocused and not entirely necessary. I imagine we’re all happy to have content but speaking for myself I’m not sure what the point is. If you feel like me it’s easy to look at the Omni part of this and feel like it’s just all a big ad. If this was BMW sponsored and filmed at Streamsong I don’t know if those same complaints would be levied but the same underlying angst would probably still be there, I’m guessing.

[jswine]

[pearcebarr]

@matthew823

And if you’re convinced that’s all just payola or whatever, Tom Doak gave it a 7 in the Confidential Guide and his brief review seems to suggest that if anything there’s room for that number to go up. If you’re not familiar with his scale a 7 is an, “excellent course, worth checking out if you get within 100 miles.” Other public courses he has given 7s would include Chambers Bay, Kapalua Plantation, and Rustic Canyon.

I am familiar, but thanks for explaining for those that aren’t. Like I said, I think all of the Omni courses show, besides the new PGA Champ course, look fun to play, but not interesting from a video or content perspective. Also, I don’t think a 7 would make it a top 50 public course in America, though, which is what I was getting at earlier.

[OnOff]

@OnOff

Six years ago I was a very experienced golfer and if you had showed me this video I would have thought the course looks pretty cool #pure.

And to be clear, the point I was trying to make here was that I was a lot less educated on the topic and so I had a lot less opinions. Like anything, as you learn more about a subject your opinions become stronger or more specific.

[anon24074719]

@matthew823

sure what the point is

This is 100% the difference in all of their content across the board. It’s the differentiator for the good and can miss stuff and it’s very easy to pick it out.

The original content has a clear purpose and style that fits with the brand. The sponsored stuff has other objectives. Which is fine. It’s just not must-see content like Strapped and TS are. It’s as simple as that.

[BigtimePolecat]

@pearcebarr

but not interesting from a video or content perspective.

I don’t really get this?

Feel like the majority of us enjoy the NLU personalities. There are only a handful of courses (that they probably don’t have access too) that would actually upgrade the content.

Plus, any course worth seeing already has 50 videos of people playing it on YouTube

[BigtimePolecat]

And what I’m trying to say is opinions on good golf courses should be more subjective, but it seems the more GCA stuff that gets passed around, the more objective golf course rankings become.

[Kerry]

Can we get a ranking of shower pressures and fixtures at these Omni properties?

[FamousFoot]

I’m not sure why we can’t just let each ‘main’ video series be it’s own lane. The are all so distinctly, and probably intentionally, different. Film Room does not hinge on the venues.

I’m pretty sure on either a nest pod or Neil on the Making Media podcast talked about how Film Room has taken on being the catch-all for content that isn’t TS or Strapped (i.e. playing lessons, Tron alt shot, Michelle Wie West walk and talk).

[matthew823]

He has Pasatiempo, Kapalua, and Chambers Bay as 7s, so a 7 is very much in Top 50 public range.

Not every course looks great from drone shots. I actually thought Bedford Springs looked pretty good, but would agree neither Barton Creek or Cascades really showed. So be it. Omni’s not going to get your business.

Much earlier in the thread, I guess after the Bedford episode, I said I figured we’d be able to get some sense of how much the boys were shilling for Omni based on each episode. I think that’s a little borne out. Tron and Neil spent a good chunk of time talking about how much they liked the course, how excited they were to go play it again, etc. That was essentially the focal point of the episode. Meanwhile, Randy and Poosh said basically nothing about the course, except maybe to mention that it was in nice condition and express their pleasure that it was wider than they expected it to be. And in this Cascades videa DJ and KVV kinda talk about the history and a few holes but there’s not really any effusive. It’s notable, given the first video, how much the guys in the second and third video are just kinda like “this is a place we just played golf.”

[OnOff]

@BigtimePolecat

And what I’m trying to say is opinions on good golf courses should be more subjective, but it seems the more GCA stuff that gets passed around, the more objective golf course rankings become

But by saying that you’re telling me my opinion is not my own.

[JoeyKnish]

@matthew823

And in this Cascades videa DJ and KVV kinda talk about the history and a few holes but there’s not really any effusive. It’s notable, given the first video, how much the guys in the second and third video are just kinda like “this is a place we just played golf.”

DJ opened the video with the comment “it’s kinda like a mountain Pinehurst”

Maybe I’m being too judgmental, but man did that comment stick with my brain…it felt like the type of ridiculous comment they would rip on a podcast

[matthew823]

Did he say that in voiceover or on the first tee? I can see that after staying in the hotel overnight given that the hotels date to about the same era.