Aural Golf and John Kavanaugh

[Joe Hancock]

The only thing that says less about a persons character than enjoying the company of lousy, worsening Catholics is going into business with a total ass.....

...which brings me to a story about golf and sound. There was a PGA pro who was a partner at a public golf course, and he was known to be an intolerant ass. One day, the high school team came out to use the range. The range was short, and long hitters could fly the net and land balls on a green directly behind the range quite easily.

A kid was pounding driver after driver over the net, landing them out on the course. The pro starts yelling at the kid from the pro shop, then moves down to the range tee, then to directly behind the kid, who apparently never saw him coming. After about 5 minutes of the tirade, and telling the kid how disrespectful he was, etc., the coach comes over and sternly tells the pro to quit being an ass, the kid is deaf.

The joy we all had, watching him walk back to the pro shop, was priceless.

 

[JLahrman]

A friend of mine and I used to play a course called Lake Valley in Boulder, Colorado (Press Maxwell) in the late afternoon, at a low price for as many holes as you could get in. We'd play until it got too dark to see, and then we'd KEEP playing. We switched to nine-irons only after dark. You'd hit your shot, and in the perfect silence wait to hear it hit the ground. You could tell by the sound which direction to walk, and if it was in the fairway or rough, or on occasion, the green. That's probably my favorite golfing sound, that hollow thunk of a ball meeting green (as long as the green isn't too soft, which creates my least favorite golfing sound, a ball shplunking into muddy ground)

Playing in the dark was a fantastic experience. Didn't lose many balls, and scored a lot closer to our regular daylight scores than one might think.

I've never heard the sound that John Kavanaugh heard, of a nice hole-in-one. Cheers to that !

Were you able to find and repair your pitch marks?

[John Mayhugh]

What the hell?  We get snowed out on Saturday in Knoxville and you guys are playing at VN on Sunday?  Golf isn't fair!

Congrats John.  Hope to see you back on here soon.

[Michael Whitaker]

What happened to John?

Why was he "booted?" I had no idea!!!

[ward peyronnin]

Tom

I am Catholic and i applaud your connection to Saint Drexel; everyone needs an advocate when the ledger is checked. So of what may i ask is she the patron St.? Merion's bunkers among other things?

I was hoping for more audio and not the "U da Man" type. There are no babblng brooks; crash of the waves or (god forbid) waterfall in tennis( my favorite whipping boy sport).  The sound of the golf ball penetrating  the car window in the parking lot or carom of the travelling vehicle trying to Dodge an errant golf shot. The roar on Agusta's back nine on Sunday.

I heard another sound for the first time this year when my crisp six iron never left the flag, literally, and ripped thru the nylon ripstop on 14 at Victoria to drop inches behind the hole.

[TEPaul]

"So of what may i ask is she the patron St.?"

Ward:

Sorry, I'm sort of light on the details of Catholicism. Are all Catholic Saints supposed to be the patron of something?    All I know is amongst maybe 5,000 reported miracles attributed to her the two that were used and tested to pass muster to get her into the club had to do with hearing.

[John_Cullum]

So of what may i ask is she the patron St.? Merion's bunkers among other things?

According to the Wikipedia-"She is known as the Patron Saint of racial justice, as well as philanthropists. "


Tom Paul really is one of the most fascinating creatures on this planet.

[Paul Stephenson]

I remember skulling a greenside bunker shot, having it hit the flag dead on mid-way up, and spin straight down into the hole.

The sound was very audible, and the look on my sister's face was just as memorable.  (I know, wrong sense.)

Congrats John!

[Kirk Gill]

Were you able to find and repair your pitch marks?

I've never had much of a problem with taking divots, as I tend to sweep the ball (learning on rock-hard munis will do that to you if you value your wrists). I'd like to say that we did, as needed, but I honestly don't remember. I doubt, though, thinking about it, that we'd have been able to find ballmarks on the greens. And while the greens were pretty hard back then, we may have left some.  Mea culpa.

[Rich Goodale]

I've said this before, but because the GCA.com search engine is such crap and there are so many newbies around:

7th hole at Spyglass.  I'm somewhere in the fairway, one of my playing companions is in the trees to the right.  He has a big pine tree in his way and asks me what to do.  I tell him to aim right and make a hook swing (he was a very good athlete).  I forget to tell him to take a closed stance.  Thwock!!! (ball on club) .  Thwock!!! (ball on tree).  Thwock!!! (ball on forehead)).

Sic transit gloria hippocanthus......

[Michael Moore]

I've said this before, but because the GCA.com search engine is such crap . . .

Rich -

Shame on you. I found this link in ten seconds. Learn to use the tool before calling it crap.

http://golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,6854.msg131213.html#msg131213

[Rich Goodale]

Shame on me, Michael!

Thanks for unearthing that, and thanks to the socialised medical powers that be here in th UK that I actually said the same thing today as I did on that mostly long forgotten day.

Hope all is well in Maine, and I promise you if I ever get there again, I'll ask you about golf there.

Cheers for now

Rich

[Michael Wharton-Palmer]

Someone fill me in..where is JK what happened...whose sensitive skin did he pierce this time?
I miss him