Watching the AT&T, I am reminded in the most visceral way of our visit there, just over a year ago. (Where DOES the time go?)
What an utterly magnificent area of land it is. I know I go on a bit - ad nauseum
- of the qualities of ground and landscape generally, but in this instance this is THE REAL DEAL.
I cannot look at the images on the telly without feeling such a warm glow. I like to think it comes from a combination of seeing great golf courses, phenomenal views, sounds and scents and of meeting great people, good friends and fine golfing companions.
Sometimes, I think, GCA FORGETS the peripheral things with which golf is concerned. I, and I hope at least some of you others, don't. Golf can simply be about brotherhood, sisterhood and cameraderie. DESIGN is about ENHANCING those qualities.
I know, I will NEVER forget my time on the Peninsula. That might only be a value which applies to me, but maybe if it applied to all of us, GCA (and the general golfing world -whatever that is) might be a better place.
FBD.