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April 22, 2004
I know this is a lame use of a Locker Room post, but: JJ, are you out there? I have a question about golfing in Scotland to ask, and I hope you can help. I looked to email you, but your profile has no e-mail listed. Please contact me at msacheson@yahoo.com or answer inside. Thanks. And I like long walks on the beach, followed by many margaritas and Jimmy Buffett songs. (more inside)
posted by msacheson to navel gazing at 01:46 AM - 4 comments
(maybe I coulda slipped this into his interview below, but I didn't want to intrude. Or maybe I hadn't noticed it before posting this. You decide.)
posted by msacheson at 01:59 AM on April 22, 2004
msacheson, yeah, St Andrews might not be the best idea - despite the fact that technically it is still "a public/municipal links course" - I'm not too sure that the members of the R&A would be overly delighted to have you rolling around in the Road Hole bunker, off your tits on cheap bourbon. They got upset enough when "that sort of person" won "their championship" in 1995. In truth, I was very lucky when I was at uni, in that all the matches we played were on fabulous courses. The odd game we played on a no-name course has long since been extracted from my memory. I'm really trying to think of a suitable venue for you, but, for the life of me, I can't! Mind you, it is worth remembering that the entire nation is steeped in alcohol anyway, and as such unlikely to notice any excesses on your part. Go to St Andrews and do it there - there's that many people playing at any one time, it's unreasonable of the R&A to expect a man not to take a hip flask out with him (and not to have consumed its contents by the time he returns). Besides, you can't come all the way across the Atlantic and not play there.
posted by JJ at 03:05 AM on April 22, 2004
(maybe I coulda slipped this into his interview below, but I didn't want to intrude. Or maybe I hadn't noticed it before posting this. You decide.) Don't worry msacheson. rcade's already gone and done it.
posted by worldcup2002 at 10:07 AM on April 22, 2004
Me and a few friends put together a golf event every year here in the SF Bay Area where the guys get stinkin' drunk and play golf. (It's a fun round of golf where each foursome is a skins match of similarly-able golfers, and the winner of each hole wins not just a skin, but the 'honor' of a shot of alcohol. Needless to say, carryovers can be a bitch. I have on occasion won holes worth 5 shots. Really evens the playing field when my competitors are not as good as me. The winner is the player who wins the most holes of al the groups.) So for the 10th edition of this event in 2007, we plan to go to Scotland. My fellow committee members dream of St. Andrews, but I imagine enjoying ourselves more at some small town with a public/municipal links course and friendly locals who don't mind
a few10-15 loud, drunk Americans (and accompanying wives and children). Any out-of-way towns and courses you can suggest? Thanks!