Gary,
Canada,Scotland, The Carribean..... where else have you been club pro?
As a professional golfer...how many countries have you competed in?
Best clubhouse hot dog?
Your weekly game at St Andrews include some big names. Care to mention some?
Favorite hockey team/player?
THanks for playing, looking foward to you shareing your experiences.
Anthony
Third try Anthony - I keep getting bumped so I'll be brief:
Where have I been a pro: Canada, Bahamas (GBI and Nassau and GBI again), Corfu Greece, Canada (Horsehoe Valley then Mad River), back to the Bahamas, then Montego Bay Jamaica (same GM), then Scotland (Fairmont St Andrewss Torrance and Devlin) and now Canouan Island in St Vincent & The Grenadines (same management as Fairmont). Next, Canada! near grandchildren!
As a pro I have played in lots of countries but not always in competitions, luckily I worked with IGM and we did plenty corporate events.
My first flight was to the Bahamas then our golfshow TheSwings the Thing id a UK tour with John Jacobs and I got the travel bug. Best finish was 2nd in Danish Open in 1973 (first would have changed my future but never had the balls to play without a job!). Came 2nd in Canadian PGA and 10th in Italian Open at Ville d'este (still one of my top 100 courses). I've played in 30 some countries. with IGM we got to visit every top resort course in USA, Canada, Mexico - amazing how resorts never build staging areas for groups!
Best clubhouse hotdog - I would think it would have to be the halfway house at the National in Toronto (after 10th hole?). I don;t think I've ever had a bad hotdog! but now that I'm older I prefer a banana on the course, hot dog later. Living in the island so long you don't find many good hot dogs - none in Scotland either. Cog Hill might be near the top (dogs and course).
I was lucky to be invited to play in the Thursday Club at St Andrews. Up to 24 "members" but usually only 8 or 12 played every week. On my flight to Scotland I read George Pepers Two Years in St Andrews and the second day there I met Gordon Murray who introduced me to the boys, the St Andrews Golf Club and playing on Thursdays. Brilliant, good mix of tradesmen, George Peper (who referred to me as American every week, as in "we Americans take a lot of ...." Most of the guys are normal people, one of them owns part of Liverpool FCand a Dallas Hockey team but the rest are just lovers of the green. David Joy playes when his back is OK or when he's not somewhere in the world doing his Old Tom routines (which are really good). Interestingly many of the statues of Old Tom are actually of David! Gordon Murray is arriving here on Canoaun next Monday! If ANYONE ever needs a contact in St Andrews let me know and I'll give you Gordon's email. He still lives on the 18th, above George.
Favourite hockey team? I'm so far removed from the game - Bobby Orr has always been my favourite. At one time we (CPGA golf pros) had a hockey team in the off season and it was pretty good, many old hockey players were also golf pros, good idea of Target so they could pick up the game quickly and in the old days they actually had to work in the summers. I guess my favourite team right now is the Canadian Olympic Women's team although I think a good midget aged boys team could beat them!
enjoyed meeting you last summer Anthony, and no I have never had a Cruden Bay slurper, but then again I've never worn orange trousers into a farmers bar!