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Adam Lawrence

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Green committee/club board numbers
« on: September 30, 2014, 10:52:09 AM »
Does anyone know who first came up with the line that a green committee/board/whatever should have an odd number of members and that three is too many?
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Adam Lawrence

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Tyler Kearns

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Re: Green committee/club board numbers
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2014, 11:06:35 AM »
Adam,

I can't find the exact quote in Scotland's Gift or Lines of Charm, but I always thought that line was attributed to CB Macdonald.

TK
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Keith Grande

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Re: Green committee/club board numbers
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2014, 11:20:45 AM »
Pat Mucci?

Or perhaps Mackenzie in the Spirit of St. Andrews
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Tom_Doak

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Re: Green committee/club board numbers
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2014, 11:27:13 AM »
I don't think it's MacKenzie's quote.  Don't remember it as Macdonald's, either, but I could be wrong.

Tom Simpson said some very colorful things about green committees, though I don't remember this line.
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Ulrich Mayring

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Re: Green committee/club board numbers
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2014, 11:38:04 AM »
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Adam Lawrence

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Re: Green committee/club board numbers
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2014, 01:03:49 PM »
Ulrich - thanks. I had seen it as a Don Harradine line too, but was convinced it was from another source originally. Cheers
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Adam Lawrence

Editor, Golf Course Architecture
www.golfcoursearchitecture.net

Principal, Oxford Golf Consulting
www.oxfordgolfconsulting.com

Author, 'More Enduring Than Brass: a biography of Harry Colt' (forthcoming).

Short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

Bill Brightly

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Re: Green committee/club board numbers
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2014, 09:43:36 PM »
Quote from: Keith Grande on September 30, 2014, 11:20:45 AM
Pat Mucci?


Close. Macdonald whispered it to Pat.
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