One Brief Complaint About the Solheim Cup
by Ryan Ballengee on Aug 24, 2009 12:12 AM EDT
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This isn't miniature golf. This is the freakin' Solheim Cup - an event that Cristie Kerr described as "arguably the most important week of the year." If this week is so important to these ladies, the LPGA Tour, and women's golf, then tell me why Rich Harvest Farms' 17th hole has a pond that features fake swans floating in it.
No golf course that should be taken seriously features anything in the water that should not be there. Fountains, fake swans, poorly selling American vehicles - none of it. Keep it out of there.
It makes a course look tacky and leaves me wondering if the swans are supposed to distract me away from some horrendous course design element.
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Hubbie was right?
NO WAY! Hubbie said the swans were fake and I didn’t believe him. We kept rewinding the TiVo to see if they moved. I can’t believe he was right!
by realwomengolf.com on Aug 24, 2009 7:12 AM EDT reply actions
The silence from Atlanta
is deafening. Where is courtgolf??
...from the land of pleasant living, Baltimore.
by One-Eyed Golfer Guy on Aug 24, 2009 8:03 AM EDT reply actions
Court has 3-0-1 reasons to have little to say. :-)
by Charles Boyer on Aug 24, 2009 8:31 AM EDT up reply actions
Is Court banging his head on a counter saying that “this parrot isn’t dead!”
I kid, I kid.
by Charles Boyer on Aug 24, 2009 9:40 AM EDT up reply actions
lol – I was ON the golf course getting a nice sunburn – then hustled over to my parents’ 50th Anniversary party. I caught Christina Kim’s winning putt and had to watch the replay last night. (didn’t turn a computer on all night – and only made one phone call – it was like being in the 70’s again !)
VERY good showing from Wie – now we’ll see if she can beat her friends in stroke play.
The Euros had leads in enough matches to win that Cup – but too much fading on the back 9. This was one exciting Cup !
Aren’t swans and geese enemies ? Sort of like putting fake owls on buildings to keep the pigeons away.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Who wants to keep birds out of a pond? At a golf course? That’s like putting a keg in a bar to keep the drunks out.
Email me any comments or questions at ryan@thegolfnewsnet.com.
by Ryan Ballengee on Aug 24, 2009 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
The only thing good about geese on a golf course is that they are large targets.
by Charles Boyer on Aug 24, 2009 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions
Excellent Mea Culpa, court, and I hear you about the sunburn. We played 27 holes yesterday.
by Charles Boyer on Aug 24, 2009 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions
I certainly hope your 27 went better than my 18 ! I started on the first hole of “Ugly Tree National” and hit every branch on the way down.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
We played 12 Oaks, which is a new Nicklaus course centerpiecing a Planned Urban Development here. The real estate slowdown has made sales go at a snail’s pace, and there was a change in the course’s management…their clubhouse is not even built, they have about 8-10 carts and the place is PRISTINE.
We played a three way Nassau, and I won that with a strong back nine. Then we played a revenge nine, where I spotted them four strokes with a bad start…but won at the end with a par to a bogey. Sweestest money you will ever earn comes from your buddies’ wallets. It was less than $20, but Teasing Rights came with it. Until next time…well, except for Spankasaurus, who always manages to come up one or two strokes shy.
All in all, a good day.
by Charles Boyer on Aug 24, 2009 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions
What came first? The
Spankasaurus or the Shankopotomus? This is important stuff…
...from the land of pleasant living, Baltimore.
by One-Eyed Golfer Guy on Aug 24, 2009 1:18 PM EDT reply actions
Shankapotomus…I cannot tell a lie about that.
But “Spanky” is getting to be known as a moniker around the club…much to the chagrin of my good buddy, who teases me as unmercifully as I tease him.
by Charles Boyer on Aug 24, 2009 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions
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