[Mark_Rowlinson]

I like the idea of using people who've never built a bunker before because it leads to new ideas and variety.

Who wrote this?

[Garland Bayley]

Tom Doak

[Tim Copeland]

I have worked for some construction companies that had this belief....it had nothing to do with the look of the bunker.....had everything to do with $$$$$

They didnt want to pay travel expenses for the laborers

[Mark_Rowlinson]

It's the last sentence of a paragraph.  If nobody has recognised it in a while I'll quote the complete paragraph.

[Mark_Rowlinson]

It's Tom Fazio 'Golf Course Designs.'  The full paragraph is:
There is no reason why we can't design an infinite variety of bunker shapes, just as we look for an infinite variety of golf holes in our work.  It has a lot to do with who is standing there with the paint can outlining the shape of a bunker, or who is running the backhoe when the bunker is excavated, or how it's finally edged. Even though we personally outline and flag every bunker on every golf course, we usually find some very artistic people on our crews who add a touch of originality to the process.  Not all the ideas for bunker shapes come from the staff, which is just fine.  I like the idea of using people who've never built a bunker before because it leads to new ideas and variety.

[BCrosby]

One of many moments in his book were it is, apparently, all about aesthetics.

[Mark_Rowlinson]

I love the idea of getting a chimpanzee to design a bunker.  

As people who understand and appreciate the rigours of true architecture you will also understand the relief I felt when made redundant by the BBC's classical music department.  We had (and still do have) a gardening expert regularly presenting important TV classical musical broadcasts.   He's a good broadcaster and likes a good tune when he hears one, but ......  

Some of you are going to question my duplicity.  Am I not a classical musician who occasionally writes about golf?  Same thing, isn't it?  I don't present coverage of the Masters - he presents the Last Night of the Proms....  

Don't get me wrong - I admire Alan Titchmarsh in many ways.  What I hate is the dumming down of the BBC, and the rubbishing of intellect, knowledge and scholarship.

[BCrosby]

Mark -

I don't think you should feel duplicitous in the slightest.

The New Yorker has a music critic who is not a trained musician. (I sometimes wonder if he understands the difference between harmony and melody.) Golf Digest has a chief architecture critic who was trained as a lawyer. Have you ever had the pleasure of hearing Brent Musberger broadcast a golf tournatment? It was so bad that even our networks, after a couple of years, saw the problem. That's bad.

As you know, the standard ought to be the amount of homework, discipline and knowledge you bring to things. Unfortunately all of those assets will almost always lose out to "personality" in the mass media.

All you can do is hang on to your little patch of turf.

Bob

[Bob_Huntley]

Mark,

At one time, the BBC was the epitome of all that was good in presenting programmes of substance and intellectual interest. Some of the stuff one hears today is truly awful.

Of course the greatest ratings came from comedy such as the show made famous by "Can I do you now, Sir." Was it Tommy Handley?  Oh, I forgot you weren't born then.


Bob

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Bob, You are correct - even I was not born then!  But I know what are on about - yes, it was Handley.  Don't start me on the subject of the BBC!!!  Funnily enough, I've just walked past my old employers (I teach at the Royal Northern College of Music on a Monday morning) and I feel not the slightest tinge of nostalgia.  Mark.

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