[ForkaB]

Great pics, Brent

You go immediately into the GCA Hall of Fame for the ass pictures of the guy taking the ass pictures of the guy on the tee!

Brilliant!

[Brent Hutto]

Mike, I boinked it off the rise on the left and it rolled to about a foot.  Made the putt too.  Made a longer putt for 2 on 15.    Course, when it was on the line, couldn't do squat.

Jeff is a righty slicer. I'm a lefty slicer. Interesting strategic implications of this hole location. For me the hole sets up beautifully in that my natural shot shape follows the angle of the green. For Jeff, he has to aim way out into the rough and if he doesn't slice it enough he's short-sided.

However, what happened was this. I sliced it just a couple yards too much and landed in the left fringe just short of hole high. With the slice spin the ball hung up there, in other words the rise that Jeff "boinked" killed my shot. Jeff hits the same spot but his righty spin let the slope overcome landing in the rough (which honestly was not too penal anywhere on the course the day we played).

Now if his shot and mine both hit five yards right of the hole instead of five yards left then I'd have been the one closer to the hole, although the way I was putting I probably would have let Jeff make the birdie putt for me. Cool hole, pity they can't use it very often at Stimp 11.

[Brent Hutto]

Great pics, Brent

You go immediately into the GCA Hall of Fame for the ass pictures of the guy taking the ass pictures of the guy on the tee!

Brilliant!

Aw shucks, you mean this little old thing?



We each contribute to the cause in our own humble way. If I have spawned an innovation that takes the ass-pic to a new level then perhaps I should retire back to playing golf sans camera as has been my custom in the past. Perhaps my work here in done.

The Vacation

Once there was a man who filmed his vacation.
He went flying down the river in his boat
with his video camera to his eye, making
a moving picture of the moving river
upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly
toward the end of his vacation. He showed
his vacation to his camera, which pictured it,
preserving it forever: the river, the trees,
the sky, the light, the bow of his rushing boat
behind which he stood with his camera
preserving his vacation even as he was having it
so that after he had had it he would still
have it. It would be there. With a flick
of a switch, there it would be. But he
would not be in it. He would never be in it.
 
(c) Wendell Berry, 1994

[Brent Hutto]

OK, my web page (8+ megabytes of it) is pretty much complete now. There are sections for Stevinson Ranch, Pasatiempo, Spyglass Hill, Cypress Point and MPCC Shore and you can follow the link at the bottom of each to get to the next page. Alternatively, here are the direct links.

http://transbay.net/~bhutto/NorCal/TripReport.html
http://transbay.net/~bhutto/NorCal/MondayPasa.html
http://transbay.net/~bhutto/NorCal/SpyglassHill/TuesdaySpyglass.html
http://transbay.net/~bhutto/NorCal/CypressPoint/WednesdayCypress.html
http://transbay.net/~bhutto/NorCal/MPCC.html

I still have some edits to the narrative text and I could use some help identifying holes in the newest page about MPCC Shore. Any corrections or additions are welcome.

[ForkaB]

Great pics, Brent

You go immediately into the GCA Hall of Fame for the ass pictures of the guy taking the ass pictures of the guy on the tee!

Brilliant!

Aw shucks, you mean this little old thing?



We each contribute to the cause in our own humble way. If I have spawned an innovation that takes the ass-pic to a new level then perhaps I should retire back to playing golf sans camera as has been my custom in the past. Perhaps my work here in done.

The Vacation

Once there was a man who filmed his vacation.
He went flying down the river in his boat
with his video camera to his eye, making
a moving picture of the moving river
upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly
toward the end of his vacation. He showed
his vacation to his camera, which pictured it,
preserving it forever: the river, the trees,
the sky, the light, the bow of his rushing boat
behind which he stood with his camera
preserving his vacation even as he was having it
so that after he had had it he would still
have it. It would be there. With a flick
of a switch, there it would be. But he
would not be in it. He would never be in it.
 
(c) Wendell Berry, 1994

Now, if we could only get a print of the guy taking your ass picture of the guy taking the ass picture..........

[JakaB]

I showed my wife that picture and she coined a new phrase..."spider wedgie"

[Robert Kimball]

Is that the green at pasa where that golfer was killed? I see a catch fence lurking back there. Also have they removed trees behind the green to open up that backdrop? Looks excellent.

If memory serves me, I believe it was on hole 7 where the incident occured. An off-line tee shot struck someone on the adjoining 6th fairway.  Hence the large amount of trees on the 7th, and the confining feel to an otherwise great short par 4. Anyway, I am sure someone on here knows for sure. . .

[PThomas]

man, we gotta get some female behinds in this group

[Jeff Goldman]

Finally have a chance to say thanks to everyone at KPIV, and to say how much fun KPIV was, despite the fact that I stunk up the joint when it mattered.  Special thanks to Huck for setting the whole thing up, to my playing companions for their toleration, and to Bob Huntley for teaching me a killer instinct, which, too bad for him, didn't show up until our wolf game.    Truth be told, he's a bit of a softie.  Great fun, great dinners, great golf courses, great bar maids.


Jeff Goldman

[THuckaby2]

Jeff:  my pleasure re my small role.  It was
great to see you again.  I gotta say I've met
few folks in my golf travels that get more
pure fun out of the game than you do.

And as for you losing, well... you didn't lose,
Fleisher stole it from you.

But re Mr. Huntley and the wolf game:

SHHHHHHH!!!!!

Just when we had him feeling sorry for us and
thus not taking all our money, you gotta go
and re-insert the challenge and the killer instinct.
Whoever plays him next is doomed.

 

[Brent Hutto]

Here's a link to the final batch of pictures to be uploaded. They are from our afternoon Wolf game at the Shore course.

http://transbay.net/~bhutto/NorCal/MPCC.html

Not having played any genuine "links" courses I hesitate to say this but I believe the high-tech firm fairways, very fast and firm greens and 30mph breeze combined for an invigorating links-like experience. The ground game was the only game in play for some shots and it was a blast, literally and figuratively.

[peter_p]

Somewhere in my collection I already have it, but the subject is posing in front of the Arc de Triumphe.

[Evan Fleisher]

OK, my web page (8+ megabytes of it) is pretty much complete now. There are sections for Stevinson Ranch, Pasatiempo, Spyglass Hill, Cypress Point and MPCC Shore and you can follow the link at the bottom of each to get to the next page. Alternatively, here are the direct links.

http://transbay.net/~bhutto/NorCal/TripReport.html
http://transbay.net/~bhutto/NorCal/MondayPasa.html
http://transbay.net/~bhutto/NorCal/SpyglassHill/TuesdaySpyglass.html
http://transbay.net/~bhutto/NorCal/CypressPoint/WednesdayCypress.html
http://transbay.net/~bhutto/NorCal/MPCC.html

I still have some edits to the narrative text and I could use some help identifying holes in the newest page about MPCC Shore. Any corrections or additions are welcome.

Brent...great reports and pictures...glad the afternoon round at Pasa showed improved conditions, and the CP & MPCC day will be one you guys will remember forever, I'm sure.

So glad we got the chance to play together several times, and very much looking forward to the next opportunity to share the fairways with another lefty!  

[Brent Hutto]

You know, that reminds me of something I hadn't realized. Evan and I were the only lefties I can recall over the course of a whole week. At my home course the sinister golfers comprise over 10% of the players but it's somewhat less so on these GCA trips.

Maybe it's a right-brain, left-brain thing. Except that golf is the only thing I can do left-handed.

[Jeff Goldman]

Great pictures Brent!  Especially the one of Pete in the Parka on the par-3 looking like he just arrived at Ice Station Zebra ("You put a little chewing gum over the hole and the indicator reads green when it should read red, they open the tube and it's good night!").

The wind was really howling, even moreso than the Sunday at Rustic at KPIII.  Both Pete and I both ended up basically putting from 120 yds in on a bunch of holes (Pete to much better effect).  Terrific fun on a terrific course.  Tiger meeting us on 18 was the capper.

[Brent Hutto]

Agreed on the matter of the soft-spoken gentleman from Louisiana. I didn't recognize John until I reached the green or I would have taken a picture of him standing behind the green while we hacked our way up the eighteenth hole. After-round drinks with Tiger B. was an unexpected treat on a day that offered one delight after another.

[Brent Hutto]

On the matter of Ice Station Zebra...

I think by Wednesday my acclimation to Monterey Peninsula conditions was complete. I had on my medium-weight Goretex jacket over a souvenir Cypress Point Club short-sleeved golf shirt. Now admittedly I had taken the precaution that morning of polypropelene thermals under my lightweight slacks but at no point during the afternoon round was I the least bit too cool. The wind was not to be trifled with but it didn't seem wintry at all.

When I got home Thursday night (actually 1:00AM Friday morning) I experienced several days of feeling as though I were stifling even in an air-conditioned 75-degree house. I really think I could get used to temperatures in the 50's and 60's every day of the year.

[PThomas]

Brent -- those winds were more than 30mph...haven't ever played where the flagsticks kept getting blown out of the hole

still, thermal underwear??? man, we gotta toughen you Southern boys up some

reminds me of when I played in Florida in February,,temp in the 50s, teed off about 1...a the end of the round my partner, a FL resident, told me he had on upper and lower thermals and was still FREEZING!

I had a great time there and elsewhere out west, and thanks to my great palying partners

pt

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