TEPaul,
I love the way you call upon the grand old traditions of the game that made the game so very interesting in the past. Let me ask you this since you are such a noble golfer (I assume you play the game, if not, this is for all the others here who think they have tapped into the spirit of the way the game is meant to be played based on your intimate knowledge of the game of golf) do you play golf from a wooden tee on what is basically a flat teeing surface in golf shoes wearing a golf glove holding drivers that are no longer wooden but rather some other material designed to make your space-age technology golf ball fly farther and straighter so that the ball can land on strains of grass that have been developed to withstand global warming (oops, wrong thread) and lower mowing heights to accommodate faster green speeds than ever imagined by Old Tom Morris, New Tom Morris or any of you New Old Tom Morrises wannabes? You are correct TEPaul, I do not consider reliance upon footprints in the sands of bunkers or time as good strategic golf architecture. I don't like reliance on clowns or windmills either. But you can certainly feel free to take up my idea from the other post and let loose thousands of cats onto you course whenever you are feeling particularly noble and misty about the good old days of horse and buggy. If I only had a nickel for everytime someone here whined about the good old days on their way out the door to play the game of golf with the latest in modern technology I could by plenty of deer fence...
Now, having said that, I am sort of liking this idea of letting the deer have the run of the place. It dovetails with the stymie discussion nicely. If the deer take a dump on the green, just call it a stymie...but keep the towel handy.
TEPaul, since I know you take this discussion as a good sport, let me recite my new rub of the green toast to you, for you:
May the bird of paradise poop on your ball for good luck during your downswing (or is that for bad luck? I can't figure you what you guys think is good or bad luck or good bad luck or whatever)