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David_Tepper

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Golf In 48 States, One Fairway At A Time
« on: June 10, 2010, 01:47:47 PM »
NY Times article on 18-year old high school grad taking quite a golf road trip:

http://onpar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/finding-america-one-fairway-at-a-time/?ref=golf


Jud_T

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Re: Golf In 48 States, One Fairway At A Time
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2010, 02:24:08 PM »
Great story! Wish I'd taken a year on an adventure like that before college....
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

Tom_Doak

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Re: Golf In 48 States, One Fairway At A Time
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2010, 04:30:10 PM »
David:

A friend sent me that article the other day, but I didn't post the link; I saw it the same day as the thread here about the boys from New Zealand playing golf every day for a year around the world.

I think I admire the young man in the Times piece more.  He wasn't media-savvy enough to promote his tour in advance or in progress and seek out free help from those of us in the golf business, which he certainly would have received; instead, he apparently made his journey on his own terms because he wanted to.

The golf business could use more people like that.

Rob Bice

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Re: Golf In 48 States, One Fairway At A Time
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2010, 04:41:42 PM »
And he gets to play Taconic for the next four years as a student at Williams!
"medio tutissimus ibis" - Ovid

Tim Martin

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Re: Golf In 48 States, One Fairway At A Time
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2010, 04:43:08 PM »
What a great story. As Tom Doak said he preferred to do it on his own terms which is pretty awesome. Nice to know that your college course is one of the best in the country-Taconic.

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