From: "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com>
Subject: Looks like Rome, NY
Organization: Semper Excelsior
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 06:35:14 GMT
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>FROM:   Isaac Kim <kim@guppy.uucp>
>
>In article <2935474631.0.p00168@psilink.com> "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com> writes:>>DATE:   7 Jan 93 02:51:49 GMT
>>
>>leg in a cart.  We finished in 3:15.  I obeyed all the rules, and 
>>nobody bothered me at all.  It can be done.
>>
>
>I also obey all the rules I can (except for replacing stroke-and-distance
>with 2 strokes), but unfortunately, I normally play at a heavily-played 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Actually, I lied about that, Kim.  What I REALLY think is that a lost 
ball should be punishment enough.  Just tee up another ball, count the 
first stroke, and away we go. I think that would speed up play just 
because it wouldn't seem like such a momentous decision to hit a 
provisional.  Treating trees or humongous rough as hazards also is one 
way to speed play on public courses and still stay within the rules.  
Just take a stinking drop.  People might give up looking for the ball a 
little earlier, too, especially if they don't care about the ball itself.
If you hit another one from the tee, you gotta play it instead of 
dropping, though, if you don't find the first one.

>muni on the weekends.  That 3:15 time is tough to do at Torrey on the 
>weekends, unless you are the one of the first five groups out.
>
>>-jim
>
>Isaac (kim@bull.ucsd.edu)
>

About the only golfing advantage in this neck of the woods is that there 
are lots of courses and not many players.  During the week, especially 
on so-so days, there are whole afternoons when maybe one or two foursomes 
will tee off -- and this is an entirely public golf course similar to many 
others in the area.  Of course, 1/2 the time they're gonna be farmers that 
don't know enough to let you play through.  8^(  Weekend mornings in the 
summer it can get pretty slow, though.  We call it "California Golf" 
when it starts getting intolerably slow, like 3 hours for the front 
side.  We usually just walk off and come back later in the afternoon to 
finish the round. 8^)

But what I REALLY wanted to say was that the tournament today (TofC) 
looked just like the middle of the summer in Rome!  I almost always wear 
my pants tucked into my socks, lose at least one ball in the slapdab 
center of the fairway, get completely splattered with mud, and need a 
shovel to repair the ball marks on the greens.  The poor darlings!  
Those little putts are TOUGH when the greens aren't like that velvet you 
usually play on, huh, guys?  Hey.  Like those FAT shots, Davis?  C'mon, 
Freddy, hit the ball out of that mud puddle like a man!  God, I love it 
so!  I have to suffer with that all season, every season.  Whatsa matter, 
Zinger, your left foot sunk two inches into the fairway and you yanked 
your wedge straight left into the trap?  So?  What's the problem?  

At least they got some sunshine.  No shadows at RCC!  The Mohawk Valley 
gets less direct sunlight than any other non-mountainous (mountains 
provide a lot of shade for narrow valleys) area on the North American 
Continent.  This is a fact.  A famous satellite composite photo (famous 
around here, imagery research and all), taken on the clearest day ever 
filmed from orbit, shows almost zero cloud cover from Panama to the Arctic 
Circle, except, you guessed it, one small cloud directly over Rome, NY.
The saying goes, "There are two seasons in Rome.  Winter and the 4th of 
July."  

And WARM, too, the puddy butts.  Almost 60 degrees.  Sweltering.

-jim

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