Ryan:
While I don't believe it's a positive thing to see the fairways of Oakmont shrink, my real point here is that I just think Pat Mucci's constant harping on always blaming memberships for everything he doesn't completely agree with is less than positive in the long run.
I doubt the membership of Oakmont or Pine Valley or probably anywhere else he doesn't belong to gives a damn what he thinks but the members in his club probably do if he constantly goes around his clubs looking for someone to blame about the things he doesn't like.
Just look at some of the things he's been saying on some of his recent posts---things like his policy is to divide and conquer!?
What the hell is that all about?
I guess Pat Mucci thinks constant adverserialness within clubs is some kind of good thing! Think about that----how weird is that?
Apparently the guy doesn't think about or has never heard of good "morale" in a golf club and how important it is for the success and enjoyment of the membership and the club.
I love golf course architecture and classic architecture and I totally support its preservation or restoration but the morale of my golf club, at least how I come at it, is every bit as important, if not more so!
Recently Pat Mucci has been telling me that I'm supporting the disfiguring of golf courses. I'm doing nothing of the kind. On restoration and preservation of architecture Pat and I are remarkably close and he knows that---he's always know that.
And he should know that's not even the issue here. I can certainly support restoration and architectural preservation at my golf club or any other golf club WITHOUT first trying to find someone to blame for disfiguring it. He says things like you can't have it both ways!!! Of course you can, and I have and it works just fine without my course or the ones I'm involved with getting disfigured!
You said:
"But being the geeks that we are, or as George Pazin's boy Malcolm Gladwell would call some of us, "Mavens" its our nature to tell them about it.
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Of course we can tell them about it and we do on here all the time. I do in person all the time at a whole lot of places. I just don't go around seeking out members FIRST to blame them for disfiguring something.
Frankly, this doesn't even have to do with architecture, restoration or preservation. It basically has to do with commonsense!