Or, if you live in the pop culture, you can write your book and tell your side of the story of who you were boinking back in the day, like Babbwa Wawa...
Perhaps it is better that in golf, those older instincts of discretion and valor and sportsmanship and trusting the field to know the real thing, like Big Jim says, is what really separates the golf arena from the tell-all gossip society.
But, that isn't to say that there isn't a fine line or merit to archies who achieve greatness in their time, at some point setting straight misconcpetions that may have begun to circulate through pop legend and lore. Lord knows there is enough of 'we' here on GCA ascribing certain legends and lore to many of the courses that we love, concerning all the intitial dealings, and who did what, what the archie intended, what the developer wanted, who was responsible for things that will endure after the principles are gone.
Take Sand Hills for example. We talk about it incessantly. We sort of project ourselves into the mistique and comment as if we knew the real origins of various aspects of that courses inception, and design/construction. Here we are only about 12 years down the pike and probably half the notions we ascribe to the founding, intentions, and design methods and philosphies are becoming legend and lore, and not necessarily the facts as only an actual hand full of those principles know it.
But, it is fun for us to imagine, and that is what keeps us typing, I guess...
