I wasn't prepared for the sound. It was deafeningly, soul-shatteringly, incredibly loud. That was a reference to the ambitious project's nickname as the World Ghost Village because it draws so few visitors it seems like a ghost town. It has some neat artifacts, from Patty Berg's baseball glove to President Ford's golf bag, but needs more items and more than the minimal information currently provided.
Plans are already under way, in fact, for just such an upgrade.
Perhaps 1,000 folks braved uncharacteristic cold to attend Monday evening's Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which the Golf Channel turned into a television show. Temperatures hovered near 50 when the sun began to set at the ceremony's start but dropped quickly as darkness fell, turning the affair into a shivering marathon of 100-plus minutes. Eight inductees forced the ceremony to ramble on, and the cold made it all the more difficult to enjoy. Jack Burke Jr. joined the women as a Hall of Fame player. The honorees all gave nice speeches, appropriately humble and often emotional.