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Compared to many of the names on this list, you’re probably not all that familiar with Rob Perry. But if you’ve read a golf magazine, or walked into a pro shop, or visited a golf course website in this state at any time in the last 20 years, you’ve almost certainly enjoyed a Rob Perry photograph. The state’s pre-eminent golf course photographer, Perry’s shots are ubiquitous in the Washington golf scene — if you’ve ever seen a photo of a local course, and thought, “Wow, that’s a great shot,” odds are good it was a Rob Perry. So, we naturally included the man with the golden eye on our panel (even if he prefers to stay behind the camera, hence the lack of a headshot above), knowing he’d pick a beauty — and did he ever. Seemingly all of Gold Mountain’s par-3s could make the list, but none are prettier than 16, which usually plays about 150 yards, entirely over a water to a green backdropped by lodgepole pine. Provided you get it there, it’s not a particularly tough par, which makes the scenery all the more memorable. That image you have in your mind? Credit Rob Perry.

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