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bngbuck
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Posted - 05/31/2008 : 23:51:56
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Up here in Coeur D'Alene, we have a resort golf course with a floating tee. The 14th tee of the Coeur D'Alene Resort golf course floats on the lake. It is tethered, so it's travel is limited, but you never know exactly where it's going to be!
These folks have done us one better!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2008 : 02:48:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Up here in Coeur D'Alene, we have a resort golf course with a floating tee. The 14th tee of the Coeur D'Alene Resort golf course floats on the lake. It is tethered, so it's travel is limited, but you never know exactly where it's going to be!
These folks have done us one better!
| The closest I have ever come to being a golfer was working for the grounds keeper at a course near Atlanta. My job was mainly pulling a set of gang mowers over the fairways and a bush hog through the roughs with a '40s vintage, John Deere tractor wearing all-but-slick tires. It was a good, summer gig for a mechanically inclined teenager. It also taught me to hate golf.
I think that a floating tee is a splendid idea! We can sneak up on the golfers and push them off -- how deep did you say the water was?
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2008 : 07:17:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy The closest I have ever come to being a golfer was working for the grounds keeper at a course near Atlanta. My job was mainly pulling a set of gang mowers over the fairways and a bush hog through the roughs with a '40s vintage, John Deere tractor wearing all-but-slick tires. It was a good, summer gig for a mechanically inclined teenager. It also taught me to hate golf. | I did this in the summer while in high school and college. It was a great way to spend an afternoon-- getting tan up on a big deck mower with a bag of sunflower seeds and a bag of Red Man. In the mornings, you had to walk the greens mowers and do 3-4 greens. It took several hours, and you ended up walking almost 4 miles. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2008 : 07:35:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy I think that a floating tee is a splendid idea! We can sneak up on the golfers and push them off -- how deep did you say the water was?
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Good idea but ah shoot! Just when Bush has stopped playing golf to show solidarity with the sacrifice the troops have made... |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2008 : 07:51:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Originally posted by filthy The closest I have ever come to being a golfer was working for the grounds keeper at a course near Atlanta. My job was mainly pulling a set of gang mowers over the fairways and a bush hog through the roughs with a '40s vintage, John Deere tractor wearing all-but-slick tires. It was a good, summer gig for a mechanically inclined teenager. It also taught me to hate golf. | I did this in the summer while in high school and college. It was a great way to spend an afternoon-- getting tan up on a big deck mower with a bag of sunflower seeds and a bag of Red Man. In the mornings, you had to walk the greens mowers and do 3-4 greens. It took several hours, and you ended up walking almost 4 miles.
| My day started at sunup grooming the tees, then it was the tractor, which was fun but with the irritating chore of getting jammed mowers going again (they were older than the Poppin' Johnny and wore slam out). And the bush hog was a suicide machine. It would chuck a rock a mile; KA-BANG--zing! I never had to groom the greens, though. That was someone else's job and they used the old-fashioned, unpowered push mowers. I was ever amazed at how smooth they got them. My final chore of the day was to rake out the sand traps, and no, I didn't piss in any as tempting as it was.
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2008 : 08:05:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by filthy I think that a floating tee is a splendid idea! We can sneak up on the golfers and push them off -- how deep did you say the water was?
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Good idea but ah shoot! Just when Bush has stopped playing golf to show solidarity with the sacrifice the troops have made...
| On the surface, this would appear to be the case. But he's lied about everything else and even if he isn't lying this time, we can wait......
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2008 : 09:43:01 [Permalink]
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Filth and Cune.....
You guys have the right perspective on golf! It appears to me as a ludicrous display of ostentatious wealth, class, and social status. The game certainly can't qualify as offering much in the way of real exercise, certainly nothing like that available from weight lifting and push-ups (a topic exhaustively discussed here recently). The working class hoi polloi that manicures the expensive turf of the game gets a far more effective aerobic workout than the mostly obese septuagenarians that constitute the majority of players.
Back when I was deeply involved in pursuit of the the almighty dollar, I never ceased to be amazed by the apparent importance of this ridiculous "athletic" posturing to the Ruling Class of commerce!
Golf is God to those who would social climb and preen the peacock feathers attendant to country club membership! What a spectacle! Tennis also shares this reverence among the anointed, but at least offers a genuine physical workout to those that seriously play it!
I understand that true skill and fine muscular control is involved in mastering the flight of a golf ball, but about 90% of the players elect to drive from hole to hole in mini-cadillacs; thereby foregoing the true exercise that would be derived by walking the course, hopefully lugging a heavy bag of clubs! I look out my office window frequently to see these preposterous little carts loaded with gaudily dressed effetes zipping from green to green, while elsewhere little Gunga Din's are dutifully lugging clubs by foot for their masters; presumably to allow more room for bar ingredients on the carts! Christ, what a parody of class and culture in democratic America! Slavery didn't go away with the Civil War, only legal human being ownership of other human beings!
I know, that's way over the top, and I apologize; but I was brought up in a highly classed environment in the thirties and forties, spent most of my life pursuing the money-is-everything values I was taught as a kid, and today live the life of the privileged, much of the essence of which I decry! Kind of conflicted, eh? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/01/2008 : 11:20:34 [Permalink]
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"A waste of time performed by wastes of space," with apologies to Oscar Wilde.
Well, it's not all that bad, I guess, but when a country boy thinks about all that could be done with those lush & pampered acres.....
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2008 : 17:07:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
"A waste of time performed by wastes of space," with apologies to Oscar Wilde.
Well, it's not all that bad, I guess, but when a country boy thinks about all that could be done with those lush & pampered acres.....
| I see a lot of waste. Especially when they are built and maintained in what would otherwise be desert.
I also can't see doing something for 3-4 hours that I find so uninteresting. Even if there were no green fees the investment of time is just too high. |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
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Posted - 06/01/2008 : 17:43:42 [Permalink]
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Gee, I never had too much of a class-conscious or social status problem playing golf, and I'm a Liberal too. Maybe its because I appreciate tiny architecture. I admire the skill and timing involved in slipping the ball past the miniature windmill blades, or under the waterfall. I also like the one where, if you get ball to disappear in the top hole, it reappears at the draw bridge of the miniature castle, and you earn 10 points; (which can then be applied at the "Penny Arcade".) The club house, (which they slyly call a "snack bar") has pretty good beer and pizza too. My girlfriend prefers the batting cages. Funny thing is, I don't recall too many lawn mowers or grass, except bright green "Astroturf". |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/02/2008 : 04:18:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Chippewa
Gee, I never had too much of a class-conscious or social status problem playing golf, and I'm a Liberal too. Maybe its because I appreciate tiny architecture. I admire the skill and timing involved in slipping the ball past the miniature windmill blades, or under the waterfall. I also like the one where, if you get ball to disappear in the top hole, it reappears at the draw bridge of the miniature castle, and you earn 10 points; (which can then be applied at the "Penny Arcade".) The club house, (which they slyly call a "snack bar") has pretty good beer and pizza too. My girlfriend prefers the batting cages. Funny thing is, I don't recall too many lawn mowers or grass, except bright green "Astroturf".
| I was not allowed on those courses. The temptation to take a good, old-fashioned, boarding-house swing at the ball was just too overwhelming!
Well, I'm lyin' a little bit. They are fun, although I haven't played on one in decades.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 06/02/2008 : 10:53:36 [Permalink]
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Chippewa.....
You're my kind of athlete! Would that we could have miniature football, basketball, baseball. soccerball, hockeyball and bustyourballs!
My favorite ball game is competition pool, which I have played for over seventy years (not much hustling, in the last decade, my sighting reflexes are waning) Still love it tho! |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
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Posted - 06/02/2008 : 13:28:59 [Permalink]
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There's a Swedish professor in physiology(?) who's researching positive health benefits of playing golf in older people, like 60+ (I think). I saw him on the news a few days back, I was just reminded of it. Good coordination training, and low-level cardiovascular exercise.
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pleco
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Posted - 06/02/2008 : 14:08:55 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
There's a Swedish professor in physiology(?) who's researching positive health benefits of playing golf in older people, like 60+ (I think). I saw him on the news a few days back, I was just reminded of it. Good coordination training, and low-level cardiovascular exercise.
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Could do the same thing with Wii Fit - takes up almost no space is a lot cheaper! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 06/03/2008 : 23:27:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Up here in Coeur D'Alene, we have a resort golf course with a floating tee. The 14th tee of the Coeur D'Alene Resort golf course floats on the lake. It is tethered, so it's travel is limited, but you never know exactly where it's going to be!
These folks have done us one better!
| That's another entry on my "wish I'd thunk of it" list.
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