Tom, Not to beat your horse to death, but I get tired of hearing that old nag yours snore.
You have unsuccessfully not convinced me of your sincerity in regards to this subject. (Actually it is more of a PC flip-flop)
Lets see now, you have told us before that your aren't a purist, but yet you can take a purist point of view and say that Rustic Canyon will entertain them.
-How do you know what a purist is if you aren't one?
-What was the purist's mission statement?
-Who hired these purists?
-How many purists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
-What was the light bulbs mission statement?
(OK, my attempt to jokingly mock one Patrick Mucci has probably fallen on deaf ears, but I'm trying to find some humor in this. Ultimately I'm trying to prove that through all of it is that its funny how you will piss on Pasatiempo for a $135.00 green fee, a place where one can not only experience the legacy of one of the GREATEST names in golf, but that you would actually say that Lost Canyons, a course that charges the same price (Not including the forecaddie) and features some of the most typical CCFAD golf SoCalfornia has to offer, yet, is close to unplayable for most as well as the prime example of golf course architecture run amuck I have seen to date---is more attractable because of all of the nonsense.
You seem to not be able to believe that Lost Canyons is in horrible shape financially. The place is like a ghost town just like all of the other courses that were conceived just like it.
Also, it isn't what is in the ground for you and your bretheren, its whats around it and how you scored on it. It has nothing to do with golf architecture but everything to do with entertainment--just like the $100,000+ year luxuory box at PacBell that serves crab cakes but forgoes the hot dogs. Heaven forbid that one would have to enjoy such meager offerings. You wouldn't be able to say, "Hey, we sat in a luxuory box/Hey we played Lost Canyons" Its funny, but I figured you to be much more wise to the hype of such a mediocre place. That is exactly what Lost Canyons is. Shadow Course--BAD Sky Course-Medicore.
Go ahead and keep on believing it all.
Just a point of question, How much money did you spend inside the Lost Canyons clubhouse?
I think it is funny, that the GREATEST course I have ever seen in my lifetime, the Old Course of St. Andrews doesn't have to rely on all of the same nonsense as Lost Canyons to be GREAT.
Meanwhile if you want to catch me, I'll be at Rustic Canyon with my purist buddies enjoying the game I love most in one of the most dramatic golf settings of Southern Calfornia that doesn't have to rely on quarry walls or oceans to dictate the experience. I'll take one of the beautiful Rustic Canyon evenings, where we practically have the course to ourselves, can replay puts we missed over and over, as well as experience that faint glimpse of a pulse that the game has left that you unfortunatley cannot see or feel.
That is unless you want to join us some Saturday night.
BTW, Last weekend I took the Vice-President's son of the third biggest turn-key industrial contractor in the country to Rustic, and he basically told everyone today at work, all day that he couldn't get the course out of his mind the rest of the weekend. It was unlike anything he has ever played before and he can't wait to get back. He has also played Lost Canyons (both courses) and hated it, calling it anything but a golf course. In fact, when his Dad comes to town next month, he is going to insist that they play there.
Also, to make Dick Daley happy, he is from Wisconsin.