Always glad to be proven wrong. And the facts help put the posts in proper context.
Ira
Don’t you ever again insinuate impropriety within our group on an open source forum with flimsy and whimsical conjecture.
We don’t have to prove ourselves to be right or wrong to you in a “proper context”. We are volunteering hours of our time to find GCA pals architecturally interesting places to play with no mark up on the costs. Actually, this year, I added a vig to our fees to tip the super’s grounds crew, and food truck for service above and beyond hours. They moved pins for us in the middle of the day for our amusement. We did the same for the super's team at Omaha.
We are really good at our day job. We have Grammies and Oscar nominations and have delivered Emmy winning productions for networks and production companies. We find talent early, develop it in the dark before folks are aware of it and present it to the public. They don't see the machination. I apply the same to my passion for golf architecture, the places I care about, and especially my passion for better gca’d public golf. I actively and openly applied that process and campaigning to the evangelism of Cedar Rapids and Davenport, the Harvester and now Landmand. Again, apparently, because I’m really fuc#ing good at this, folks, such as you, assume there is a profit component where in actuality, I am really gassed to be able to support places I believe in, and would like my GCA Pals to experience them. I pay dues at Cedar Rapids FFS.
The danger is now I will slide into a cynical don’t-give-a-f***-these-gca-assholes mode.
I’m sure you can sense my fury. LA Vaughn is pissed. GCA Vaughn may calm down but it will take a minute. I told the same to Tom. He's a broadcast channel and needs to act like it.
If you have a question, get on the direct messenger. I would have done this on that channel but you publicly questioned our motives so I am making sure our motives and reaction are given a “proper context” with equal distribution.