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To: fredhead; r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; GRRRRR; 2banana; ...
2 posted on
06/13/2009 5:23:24 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
For any younger golf fans who might wonder how that course could be stretched out beyond 6,700 yards (today's are only 7,300 or so) with the primitive equipment of 1939, yet play only to par 69, the answer is simple: the fairways probably were unsprinklered, resulting in substantial summer fairway roll. I remember when an older municipal Long Beach course first got fairway sprinklers c. 1970. Prior to that, what watering was done was with hose-mounted sprinklers, which could not possibly apply nearly as much water.
Thanks for posting this. I especially enjoyed the writing, including the author's comment that the Depression "forced" Lord Byron to take up golf as his vocation!
5 posted on
06/13/2009 8:22:00 AM PDT by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God is, and (2) God is good?)
To: cleveland gop
This must be the 39TH UNITED STATES OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
6 posted on
06/16/2009 12:13:43 PM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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