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Tim Bert

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2009, 09:24:05 AM »
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PCCraig

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2009, 09:49:43 AM »
How about being guilty about spending WAY too much time on GCA.com while at work!  ;D
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Tom Huckaby

Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2009, 09:58:32 AM »
There have been a few threads like this, mostly devoted to courses.  I called THE CROSSINGS AT CARLSBAD a "strip club course" because it's wrong, it's degrading, you know you really ought not to enjoy it, but somehow it's darn fun.

As for guilty pleasures related to GCA, I have no guilt.  I enjoy damn near everything about golf courses, a lot of which the cognoscenti here turn up their noses at.  Why should I feel guilty?

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Steve Salmen

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2009, 10:01:00 AM »
After a few drinks, I've been known to blurt out that there is no place for a tree on a golf course.  That being said, I really love the Lake at Olympic.
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RJ_Daley

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2009, 10:18:31 AM »
There is a driving range adjacent to the first hole.  Sometimes when I don't quite hit my opening tee shot too well.  I have about a 10 year old Titelist 975D traditional head size driver that I like and when I hit is well, I get about ~240 on the flat.  But sometimes I turn to my playing buddy and ask him to hand me that big headed driver of his.  (actually just about all my regular pals have those new huge headed drivers), but I usually ask Steve the Marine who has one of those disgusting looking elephant feet 460cc Taylor Made (I think).  Well, I usually take an old ball in my bag and tee it up and smoothly hit one about 250-60 into the driving range.   Then I throw it back at him and tell him he's a dirty rotten cheater!  ;) ::) ;D
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Kalen Braley

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #30 on: February 11, 2009, 10:30:19 AM »
My guilty pleasure is perhaps a regional one.

Here in the SLC area, almost all of the best courses are either in the mountains or on the benches on the side of a mountain.  These courses are good because their holes include amazing views, fun carries over large ravines/washes, play uphill, downhill, and sidehill, and usually have tons of undulation in the fairways and greens.  But as a result many are unwalkable and are best a tough walk, especially in the hot summer months.

However, I would rather play these over most of the valley courses which are for the most part boring, flat, lifeless, and uninspiring, even though they are very walkable.  There are exceptions like WingPointe at the airport, but they are few.  Even courses like Bonneville and West Valley have quite a bit of undulation and are somewhat challenging to walk as they are built on the sloped approaches to the mountain benches.
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Tom Huckaby

Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #31 on: February 11, 2009, 10:32:27 AM »
Kalen - why do you consider sanity to be a guilty pleasure?

When it's hilly, ride.  If the course seems to be a doable walk, walk.  Either way, play the course that allows for more fun.

Where's the guilt?

TH
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Anthony Gray

Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #32 on: February 11, 2009, 10:51:17 AM »
Quote from: Pat Craig on February 11, 2009, 09:49:43 AM
How about being guilty about spending WAY too much time on GCA.com while at work!  ;D

  Pat,

  You have a job?

  Anthony

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Tim Gavrich

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #33 on: February 11, 2009, 10:52:41 AM »
Water hazards.

Carts with GPS.

Yardage books.

Looking at Google Maps views of golf courses instead of paying full attention in classes sometimes.   :P

Jack Nicklaus (Pawleys Plantation), Arnold Palmer (Gillette Ridge), Tom Fazio (Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards), Dick Wilson (Mountain View at Callaway Gardens, Doral Blue Monster), RTJ/Rees Jones (Duke, Bryan Park), Greg Norman (Great White at Doral, Norman Course at Barefoot Resort).
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Kirk Gill

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #34 on: February 11, 2009, 11:04:24 AM »
I'm a big fan of Merion Threads.

I also love a little Denver Muni up in Evergreen, Colorado. A mountain course well under 6,000 yards, loaded with quirk, it's one of my very favorite courses. If loving it is a sin then let me be guilty.
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Sean Leary

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #35 on: February 11, 2009, 11:04:40 AM »
Desert golf.
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Kalen Braley

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #36 on: February 11, 2009, 11:15:35 AM »
Quote from: Tom Huckaby on February 11, 2009, 10:32:27 AM
Kalen - why do you consider sanity to be a guilty pleasure?

When it's hilly, ride.  If the course seems to be a doable walk, walk.  Either way, play the course that allows for more fun.

Where's the guilt?

TH

Tom,

Its not taking the cart so much for one course that is bothersome, its just that because most of the funnest courses with the most interesting shots to play are the unwalkable ones, I find myself playing them the most.  So its the aggregate effect of most of my rounds being played on these courses.   :-\
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Tom Huckaby

Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #37 on: February 11, 2009, 11:18:52 AM »
You live in a mountainous area, with many fine courses that are more sane to ride than to walk.  That you feel guilt for playing most of your golf on the better golf courses seems odd to me.  But perhaps I have an answer... walk more outside of playing the game.

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Brad Tufts

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #38 on: February 11, 2009, 11:41:19 AM »
Technology.

I love the Golden Age courses like everyone else, but I love the fact that my equipment and length makes many 6400-yd New England courses obsolete.

Yes, it's not like I'm shooting 63 every time out, but having 15 wedges into greens during a round isn't exactly how things are supposed to go.
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Scott Sander

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #39 on: February 11, 2009, 12:04:10 PM »
Quote from: Kirk Gill on February 11, 2009, 11:04:24 AM
I'm a big fan of Merion Threads.

I also love a little Denver Muni up in Evergreen, Colorado. A mountain course well under 6,000 yards, loaded with quirk, it's one of my very favorite courses. If loving it is a sin then let me be guilty.

Yes!  The course with the par three over that... huge... rock.  Very cool quirk. 
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Wyatt Halliday

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #40 on: February 11, 2009, 02:56:03 PM »
On occasion I'm guilty of finding pleasure in green speeds that are WAY too fast.

....vegetables incoming.
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Marty Bonnar

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #41 on: February 11, 2009, 02:57:27 PM »
FLORIDA!
 ;D
C U there in 2010 for the big 5-0h!
cheers,
FBD.
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Mark_Rowlinson

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #42 on: February 11, 2009, 03:00:27 PM »
Marty, Remind me what the big 5-0 is. I know its something I may have done, seen, eaten or slept with, but it is so long ago I can't quite remember which it is.
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Peter Ferlicca

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #43 on: February 11, 2009, 03:41:16 PM »
Desert Golf, you are always playing a course in perfect condition

I must say Torrey Pines, though the course lulls you to sleep, the ocean views and weather always make it an enjoyable walk even though it takes 5 1/2 hours.
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Kalen Braley

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #44 on: February 11, 2009, 03:45:28 PM »
Quote from: PFerlicca on February 11, 2009, 03:41:16 PM
Desert Golf, you are always playing a course in perfect condition


You mean like Apache Stronghold?   :-X

While I think I understand what your saying, its not always a default setting that Desert courses are always in great shape. Especially when its high desert like Utah... with its 4 seasons the courses can play very different depending on the time of year.
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Norbert P

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #45 on: February 11, 2009, 05:46:33 PM »
Playing golf.
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John Gosselin

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #46 on: February 11, 2009, 07:56:17 PM »
Myrtle Beach golf with a group of guys who could care less who designed what. Carts, beer, and lots of gambling.
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Bill Gayne

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #47 on: February 11, 2009, 08:03:02 PM »
Playing 36 in the summer when I should be back home.
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Peter Ferlicca

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #48 on: February 11, 2009, 08:08:52 PM »
Quote from: Kalen Braley on February 11, 2009, 03:45:28 PM
Quote from: PFerlicca on February 11, 2009, 03:41:16 PM
Desert Golf, you are always playing a course in perfect condition


You mean like Apache Stronghold?   :-X

While I think I understand what your saying, its not always a default setting that Desert courses are always in great shape. Especially when its high desert like Utah... with its 4 seasons the courses can play very different depending on the time of year.

Sorry Kalen I didn't specify better, Palm Desert and Scottsdale Desert Golf during the season is ALWAYS in perfect condition.  Let’s put it this way, if I am playing somewhere in palm desert right now and their fairways ARE NOT perfect, something is wrong with the maintenance staff.
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Andrew Mitchell

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Re: What is your GCA guilty pleasure?
« Reply #49 on: February 12, 2009, 04:26:50 AM »
Yardage books.

Pacing out yardage from marked sprinkler heads, 150 markers etc.
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