Huck:
As somebody who is not God, let me say you seem to quote me too often as gospel.
But I'm not getting into the middle of this thread. I've given my ratings and I have to let my past record stand for itself.
As I've said Tom, you are not God nor a god, and I fully believe Rich's adminition that you may be a naughty boy. Want to discuss Stone Eagle again?
But if one creates a scale, and a discussion is about that scale, that first one makes the rules on what the scale says. So yes, when it comes to the DOAK SCALE, what DOAK says sure as hell is gospel. Look at it this way - what Matt (and now you I think, oddly enough) seem to miss: my statements to Matt are ABSOLUTELY NOT about the merits of any particular golf course. If you tell me Pebble Beach is a 10, that's your OPINION and sure as hell not gospel. It's a valuable opinion for sure given your profession and long history of course evaluation, but it's an opinion nevertheless. But if you tell me "a 10 on the Doak scale really means _________" then that IS gospel. It's your scale and only you determine what it means.
Matt doesn't seem to get this at all. It's not about course opinions. It's about what the definitions in the DOAK SCALE mean.
So to that end, I suppose when it come to the Doak scale, you are lord, god, pharoah, master, almighty supreme being.
But outside of the Doak scale or other things which you authored, oh your word is no more gospel than any of the rest of us, my friend. You remain fair game.
TH
ps re Pebble Beach - I shall be playing there in a few weeks. It's a 10 for me also... and I can't see the current changes altering that. But we shall see.