Golf is unlike many other sports. No standard playing field exist and therefore each course is designed as a specific model of interaction with the environment. Every course represents a fantasy of play and expectation. The aesthetics of course development involves situating game theory against a backdrop of artificiality and terrain management.

The Silicon Valley Golf Classic introduces the notion of the corporate campus as golf link. Cisco, Ebay, Adobe, Sun, IBM, Intel and others provide for a ready made environmental community conducive to driving golf balls and confronting obstacles.

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As you move up to the tee imagine the best days of your life. Full of termination and little risk (because you know you are the #1) you get out your Big Dog (No.one wood) and let it eat. You don't care that you are hitting towards an economic void -- an untilled field in the middle of Silicon Valley. You leave the ball and run away.




This Island Green of San Jose calls for the player to scale the fence and leave your ball into the foundation of a new Silicon Valley landmark.
The goal of the “island green” civic center is to land your ball somewhere in the lower levels of the civic center construction.





Find yourself a nice shaded parking place to drive from.Take careful aim for the burnt out S in the Sun logo.
Swing.
Run.







Ebay is one of the biggest Dot Com companies. Like the ones that crashed, Ebay really does not sell anything. Rather, it has reinvented personal selling online. Now, it has reinvented its Ebay Park as a Golf Course. You can even sell your balls online after it is over!








Alviso is the tip of the San Francisco Bay, nobody is around, feel free to swing!
If you are worried to pollute the bay, aim gates.
If you are not worried, aim mountains.







Ascend the levy overlooking San Thomas Aquino Creek. Set up in linear row of golfers placed on club distance apart. Use a tee. On a 3 count the group of golfers will be instructed to drive their balls directly west into open parking lot. Descend the levy and exit immediately.

Climb the levy to reveal an economic expanse described by the loss of potentiality. An empty bridge of opportunity separates you from a dog leg left. One can only wonder if it is possible. An imaginary of a ball as it lifts to reveal its origin. Quite and contemplative the golfer must swing only once, crisp and clean like the quite stream below through which dreams of Silicon Valley flow.

This is the Bermuda Silicon Valley triangle hole:
1. You can stand any where near the buildings.
2. This is a par 3 hole. Of you did not make it at the first shot, you have a choice to make the second one from where you started or pick up the distance from where your first ball landed.

Abandoned, once was a core of living
Banished, here but nowhere.


This is where it all starts, Doesn’t it? Located in the metropolitan heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose, Discovery Meadow is located in front of the Children’s Discovery Museum offers a wide expanse of well manicured lawn for your playing pleasure.

The goal is to hit the balls from in front of the Children’s Discovery Museum over the meadow and onto the Monopoly board.

The Play…
Depending on the time of day, there is a parking lot located at the corner of Azurais and Almaden as well as one located on Woz Way across from the Children’s Discovery Museum. We arrive, park, line up in front of the Children’s’ Discovery Museum facing San Carlos, and try to get our balls as close to the Monopoly Board as possible.



How to Play:
Park in the vistor’s parking lot. (Burton Drive)Walk along Garage B building to the end.Put the ball on the grass area as showed in above illustration.The fare ground will be set in the gravel area.

p.s.
1. There is a 6 foot passage between the two areas.
2. The background is a blue building with a clear INTEL logo.