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Old 07-12-2007, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by 12 piece bucket View Post
I don't get it. If the best players in the world are averaging 77 or whatever on a golf course . . . something is afoul. What's the big deal about them making a birdie. The USGA is selfabsorbed. Tweeking these old courses to "protect" them and par is like putting a mustashe on the mona lisa. It's not golf. The guys at the Masters are doing the same thing. Bobby Jones wouldn't recognize his golf course.
I think I agree.

The only thing I can say on the other side of it is that sometimes you feel the nervous tension just watching it........imagine what they must feel.
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Old 07-12-2007, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by birdie_man View Post
I think I agree.

The only thing I can say on the other side of it is that sometimes you feel the nervous tension just watching it........imagine what they must feel.
I imagine the feel like if I had to do this every week I'd go back to stabbin' trash on the highway.

Whatchu doin' slummin' over here on the "bad guys" side? Haven't seen you 'round much. Hope all is well.

I need a banned-aid.
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