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Pete_Pittock

Sept 15, 1870
« on: September 16, 2007, 02:57:00 AM »
On this date one hundred and thirty seven years ago, Young Tom Morris scored a three on the 578 yard first hole in The Open, held at Prestwick.

TEPaul

Re:Sept 15, 1870
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2007, 09:48:44 AM »
"Sept 16, 1870
On this  date, Tom Morris and his partner woke up with the worst hangovers of their lives."

Shivas:

This fits in quite nicely with what Max Behr apparently referred to as "strategic" celebrating (analogous to strategic golf and architecture).

"We certainly have in mind the areas deserving retribution. Suppose from the outside limits of such an area we draw straight lines to the middle of the green, and we allow these lines, where they bisect it, to be the outside limits of a hazard cut in its face. Have we not by indirection, and at a very small cost, created an impartial hazard for all this area? What taxes cost less to collect and produce the greatest revenue, direct taxes or indirect? It is simply a question of the economics of pleasure. A headache the morning after is better than one the night before. The latter destroys pleasure, the former makes us consider what is worthwhile."



;)

Pete_Pittock

Re:Sept 15, 1870
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2007, 09:57:46 AM »
Shivas,
Thanks for gracing the thread with post 10,000. I thought that number would upgrade you.

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