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Dave_Miller

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Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2002, 11:00:04 AM »
Mike Cirba:

Are you confusing Merion with Merion Cricket ;D.

Other than the showers, Merion is way down on the list of locker rooms and what they should be.

Have you ever tried to stay in there for more than five minutes after a shower in July with the humidity in the 90% range.  It is a hell hole.  ;)

Maybe Barry wants it that way to keep everybody moving.

Certainly nowhere near places like Seminole and others.

The heat must have created a mirage when you were last there.  ::)

Cheers,
Dave
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PINE VALLEE

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #26 on: October 16, 2002, 11:06:31 AM »
TE
WOULD THAT BE pine valley?
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HW

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #27 on: October 16, 2002, 11:18:41 AM »
Those lockerrooms may be nice but Stonewall (West Chester, PA) has a mounted cow's head with driver in its mouth (club logo) in the men's lockerroom.  
I don't know what the women's lockerroom has.
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Ken Banks

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #28 on: October 16, 2002, 11:51:30 AM »
Seminole hands down. Ocean Forest is openly patterned after it.
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TEPaul

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #29 on: October 16, 2002, 12:06:02 PM »
Yes Pine, it would be Valley!
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TEPaul

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #30 on: October 16, 2002, 12:12:19 PM »
HW;

There's the same mounted cow's head at Stonewall down in the ladies lockeroom except instead of the club being in the cow's mouth, in the ladiesroom it's wrapped around the cow's neck.
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Fred Ruttenberg

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #31 on: October 16, 2002, 01:53:14 PM »
Seminole
The Golf Club at New Albany
Bear Club (Jupiter,Fla.)

Has Jupiter Hills opened their new clubhouse yet?
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Mike_Cirba

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #32 on: October 16, 2002, 02:19:50 PM »
Dave Miller;

Heat?  Humidity?  Oppressive conditions in the Merion lockerroom?

Well, one can always stay in the showers which are heavenly, or return to the course, which is a nice option. ;)

I just really enjoy the fact that it feels like 1913 in there.  Or, has it recently been modernized to 1930??  ;)
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Dave_Miller

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Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #33 on: October 16, 2002, 05:27:58 PM »
Mike Cirba:

You surely had to have a mirage.  ;D

Barry, the long time locker room attendant, tells everyone they have a 35 minute limit in the showers.  ::)

Seems like 1913 in there (or even 1930) - you bet.  It's like being on the top floor of a barn with no relief in sight and who knows what the cows and sheep are doing. ::)

God love you Mike.  You're insights are absolutely amazing. ;) And if God doesn't love you.  Rest assured we do. ;D

Cheers,
Dave
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John_D._Bernhardt

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #34 on: October 16, 2002, 05:40:06 PM »
I cannot believe that i did not go into Seminole's when there. However, Champions is great. I do not think it belongs in this class but the addon to the old locker room at Western Gailes was great. Olympic is none to shabby either.
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John_D._Bernhardt

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #35 on: October 16, 2002, 05:42:29 PM »
SFGC has a great Dickens facility even to the near dead attendents. lol
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Mike_Cirba

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #36 on: October 16, 2002, 05:43:28 PM »
Dave;

Actually, it was Tommy Naccarato who had a "mirage", an out of body, near-death experience in that very locker room after nearly passing out from heat prostration on the course and having to quit after 13 holes.

To this day, Tommy will tell you that he was visited by all sorts of ghosts of the past in that locker, and if it isn't the most comfortable and cool locker room, it's probably the most haunted, timeless, and other-worldly.  I had no reason to doubt his "visions" and I have to say that discretion prevents me from repeating what those ghosts told him.

Let's just say that they are strict traditionalists.  ;D  
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Daryl "Turboe" Boe

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Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #37 on: October 16, 2002, 05:50:16 PM »
Classic:
Oakmont for sheer size and history (not bad shower heads)
Although having recently played Baltusrol it may be bigger yet.  I almost got lost in Baltusrol.

Mid-aged Classic:  The Golf Club (Just a great feel)

Modern:  Old Memorial - Tampa

Honorable mention:
Champions in Houston.  for the large bar in the mens locker room and the brass plate showing where Jimmy Demeret used to stand most every day (completely naked most of the time from what I understand) and enjoy many drinks and comradery.

Palmetto in Aiken, SC for simplicity, perfect shabbiness, aura, and a neat feel.  Nothing fancy but just fits the feel of the whole place.

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Dave_Miller

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Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #38 on: October 16, 2002, 05:58:23 PM »
Mike:

Don't worry about what the ghosts told the "Emperor". ;)
 
Eddie Baker (Tommy doesn't have much on The Bake) walked all 18 on a day when the thermometer, on the shack at the range, just off the tee of the Quarry hole was reading 106 and the humidity was pushing over 90%.

Talk about ghosts. :o They told Ed everything they told Tommy and then some.

When he got to the locker room I swear he was talking in tongues to Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead.  There were no vowels in that conversation. ;)

Barry came along and said "35 minute limit in the shower".;D

We couldn't get out of that locker room fast enough.

However we were meeting TEPaul, Chip Oat and Golf's Most Beloved for cocktails and dinner. ;)

That's another story in and of itself.

Best,
Dave
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Mike_Cirba

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #39 on: October 16, 2002, 06:04:44 PM »
Dave;

Why do those darn ghosts only talk to the "big guys"??

And, why do they only come out in the most extremely oppressive weather??

Ahhh...mysteries for the ages.  ;)

I have asked Tommy to be my spiritual advisor since that day.  Perhaps you should ask the same of Ed!  :)
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Dave_Miller

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Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #40 on: October 16, 2002, 06:13:03 PM »
Mike:

Ed has been my spiritual advisor, fuhrer, bishop and parish priest for more years than I can remember. ;)

Just ask Tom Paul and Wayne Morrison.  As Ed went into his normal every day, being Ed routine at Charles River, Tom and Wayne wanted to know how you can concentrate playing golf with all that. ;D

My answer was simple - I just don't hear it anymore ;)

Best,
Dave
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Gene Greco

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Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #41 on: October 17, 2002, 05:30:33 AM »
Seminole's has Loch Lomonds' by a bit but I do believe the locker room and men's grill at Desert Mountain has them both beat.  

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"...I don't believe it is impossible to build a modern course as good as Pine Valley.  To me, Sand Hills is just as good as Pine Valley..."    TOM DOAK  November 6th, 2010

HW

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #42 on: October 17, 2002, 05:33:46 AM »
Oh, man!  I missed that.  Are you serious?

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HW;

There's the same mounted cow's head at Stonewall down in the ladies lockeroom except instead of the club being in the cow's mouth, in the ladiesroom it's wrapped around the cow's neck.
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Yancey_Beamer

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #43 on: October 17, 2002, 07:05:58 PM »
PV
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Dunlop_White

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Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #44 on: October 17, 2002, 08:07:18 PM »
Apparently, ANGC has built an entirely new member's locker room this past summer. Likely, it will be extraordinary!!!
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hlavender

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #45 on: October 17, 2002, 08:30:04 PM »
Seminole.  Period.
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Jeremiah_Daly

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #46 on: October 17, 2002, 10:22:02 PM »
Essex County Club north of Boston has a pretty nice locker room, and a pretty nice course to go with it

Brookline's is great

Winged Foot has some great old pictures from past majors, which are fun to look at as well
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Mike Vegis @ Kiawah

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Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #47 on: October 18, 2002, 02:47:39 PM »
Some of y'all who were on the recent Golfweek Rater's Cup must have something to say about the locker room at Cassique here on Kiawah...  The sure know how to live on the other side of the tracks...
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Paul Richards

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Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #48 on: October 18, 2002, 02:48:55 PM »
SEMINOLE.
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archie struthers

Re: Best Locker Room in Golf?
« Reply #49 on: October 18, 2002, 04:39:22 PM »
:D ;) 8)

Three great ones in order of my personal preference.

Indian Creek
Atlantic City CC
Seminole
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