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Anthony Gray

10 things to love about GCA.com
« on: December 09, 2009, 09:58:32 AM »


  10-Photo Threads

  9- The fathers of architecture and their descendants

  8-Diety with 10,000 posts

  7-Access

  6-Course tours

  5-Chicks

  4-Dixie Cup..Kings Putter..BUDDA

  3-Grudge Matches

  2-Tom Doak

  1-Grammer Lessons

  OTHERS?



Bruce Wellmon

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2009, 10:10:52 AM »
Kelsey Grammer is on The Haney project?  HaHa.

Serioously, I vote the photo threads #1.

Michael Wharton-Palmer

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2009, 10:13:27 AM »
1.
education
2.
confrontation that stimulates more education
3
wonderful photography that makes one green with envy
4.
input from "real" architects to let us know how smart we are NOT
5.
Humour and wit
6.
comparing and sharing stories
7.
bumping into people at strange places who know you from gca
8.
knowing that there are other obsessed individuals out there
9.
friendships
10.
Where else could you get an email asking you to attend a gathering at Ballyneal?

jeffwarne

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2009, 10:14:57 AM »
Kelsey Grammer is on The Haney project?  HaHa.

Serioously, I vote the photo threads #1.

Speaking of which, is there anything more nauseating than that show.
What exactly is the jump suited caddie doing?-directing traffic on those freeway width paths? ??? :-[ :'(

The Haney camp can't be feeling too great right about now
« Last Edit: December 09, 2009, 11:06:22 AM by jeffwarne »
"Let's slow the damned greens down a bit, not take the character out of them." Tom Doak
"Take their focus off the grass and put it squarely on interesting golf." Don Mahaffey

tlavin

Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2009, 10:21:45 AM »
With tongue firmly in cheek (foreign translation available upon request):

10. Misspellers

9.  Puerile whining

8.  Merion-a-day-keeps-sleeplessness-away

7.  Manners lessons for the golf course

6.  Bunker fetishism

5.  Reflexive Fazio condemnation

4.  Obsequious ass smooching of pro archies

3.  Censorship

2.  Where else can you find people who love brown grass?

1.  Access Whores
« Last Edit: December 09, 2009, 10:36:47 AM by Terry Lavin »

Tony Weiler

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2009, 10:44:12 AM »
LISTS, whether they be top 10, or 100!

Ken Moum

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2009, 12:02:35 PM »


  10-Photo Threads

  9- The fathers of architecture and their descendants

  8-Diety with 10,000 posts

  7-Access

  6-Course tours

  5-Chicks

  4-Dixie Cup..Kings Putter..BUDDA

  3-Grudge Matches

  2-Tom Doak

  1-Grammer Lessons

  OTHERS

1 - Grammar lessons

 ;D

But seriously, I sometimes like reading about places i can't play... EVER.

Other times I hate reading about them.

Maybe I need meds.

Ken
Over time, the guy in the ideal position derives an advantage, and delivering him further  advantage is not worth making the rest of the players suffer at the expense of fun, variety, and ultimately cost -- Jeff Warne, 12-08-2010

Garland Bayley

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2009, 12:13:42 PM »
Chicks?

How did I miss out on the chicks bit?

Where were the chicks at KP? Are some of you really cross dressers? Anthony posts pictures with his shirt off. How about the rest of you? Can you prove you're not cross dressers too?
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

Anthony Gray

Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2009, 12:18:43 PM »
Chicks?

How did I miss out on the chicks bit?

Where were the chicks at KP? Are some of you really cross dressers? Anthony posts pictures with his shirt off. How about the rest of you? Can you prove you're not cross dressers too?



  I AM NOT A CROSS DRESSER


 

George Freeman

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2009, 12:53:08 PM »

But seriously, I sometimes like reading about places i can't play... EVER.

Other times I hate reading about them.

Maybe I need meds.

Ken

Isn't that sad?  Not the fact that Ken likes reading about places he'll never be able to play (don't we all), but the fact that there are courses (some of the greatest in the world!) out there that he (and the rest us GCA nuts) will NEVER get an opportunity to play, or even see...breaks my heart.

I'm trying to find a good analogy, but I can't...diehard Red Sox fan being denied access to Fenway?  Lifelong art nut being denied access to the Mona Lisa and other great pieces?  Are there any similar circumstances for other things which people are so passionate about?  Lack of access to private art collections for the previously mentioned person might actually be a good analogy...Regardless, it is the unfortunate fate of this game and its venues we're all so passionate about.

I apologize for the off topic post, I'm not trying to thread hijack!

To get back on topic:  knowledge and the opportunity to meet great people who share a common interest/passion are my two favorite things about GCA.com.

Cheers,
George

Mayhugh is my hero!!

"I love creating great golf courses.  I love shaping earth...it's a canvas." - Donald J. Trump

Dan Boerger

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2009, 05:06:59 PM »
Hey, I look at National Geographic and Playboy for the same reason ... beautiful color pictures of places I will never, ever visit! ;)

Joking aside, if this website does anything well, it's to identify exceptional courses beyond the likes of Pine Valley and Cypress, that most of us can play.

Leatherstocking in Central New York is an example -- really fine course that gets overlooked by many.
"Man should practice moderation in all things, including moderation."  Mark Twain

Anthony Gray

Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2009, 05:16:19 PM »
Hey, I look at National Geographic and Playboy for the same reason ... beautiful color pictures of places I will never, ever visit! ;)

Joking aside, if this website does anything well, it's to identify exceptional courses beyond the likes of Pine Valley and Cypress, that most of us can play.

Leatherstocking in Central New York is an example -- really fine course that gets overlooked by many.


  Excellent post. Without this site I would have never gone Wine Valley. What a treat that place was. The best bunkering I have ever seen,aestethically and placement. Also Walla Walla is a really neet town. vineyards and very modern resteraunts.

  Anthony


David_Elvins

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2009, 05:20:17 PM »
1. Bob Huntley's and Tom Paul's stories from their younger days. 
Ask not what GolfClubAtlas can do for you; ask what you can do for GolfClubAtlas.

JMEvensky

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2009, 05:22:52 PM »
1. Bob Huntley's and Tom Paul's stories from their younger days. 

Agree 100%.

Scott Henderson

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2009, 11:27:06 PM »
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1. Bob Huntley's and Tom Paul's stories from their younger days. 


Agree 100%.

Amen!!!

Jeff_Brauer

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2009, 11:30:22 PM »
Umm,

because it feels so good when I stop?
Jeff Brauer, ASGCA Director of Outreach

Gary Sato

Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #16 on: December 29, 2014, 01:15:25 PM »
There is a lot of discussions about GCA and how to improve it, the quality of some posts and Rans request to be "Best of Breed". 

As someone new I'm personally enjoying it and learning.  Please list your favorite aspects of GCA.com

Happy New Year.

Joel_Stewart

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #17 on: December 29, 2014, 03:19:57 PM »
1.
education
2.
confrontation that stimulates more education
3
wonderful photography that makes one green with envy
4.
input from "real" architects to let us know how smart we are NOT
5.
Humour and wit
6.
comparing and sharing stories
7.
bumping into people at strange places who know you from gca
8.
knowing that there are other obsessed individuals out there
9.
friendships
10.
Where else could you get an email asking you to attend a gathering at Ballyneal?

Well said.

Terry Lavin

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #18 on: December 29, 2014, 04:29:09 PM »
Now that I'm too young for Medicare but too old for women to care, GCA is the best hookup joint around.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  H.L. Mencken

Garland Bayley

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #19 on: December 29, 2014, 04:35:13 PM »
Now that I'm too young for Medicare but too old for women to care, GCA is the best hookup joint around.

Just to be perfectly clear, I'm not interested in a "hookup" with you Terry.
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

Terry Lavin

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #20 on: December 29, 2014, 06:10:13 PM »
Now that I'm too young for Medicare but too old for women to care, GCA is the best hookup joint around.

Just to be perfectly clear, I'm not interested in a "hookup" with you Terry.

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Figured we would eventually find common ground, thousands of miles apart.
« Last Edit: December 29, 2014, 06:12:34 PM by Terry Lavin »
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  H.L. Mencken

Garland Bayley

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Re: 10 things to love about GCA.com
« Reply #21 on: December 29, 2014, 09:24:37 PM »
Without this website, I probably would have never played Chambers Bay.
I love Chambers Bay.
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

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