[Adam Clayman]

Taste?   So much of each persons appreciation for gca lies in their ..._____ (Fill in the blank)?   My opinion will have to wait until I have more computer time. 

[Peter Pallotta]

Unconscious

[Peter Pallotta]

Capacity for appreciation.

[Peter Pallotta]

Willingness to let bygones be bygones and to look with fresh and open eyes uncluttered by past experience or rigid preconceptions at each new vista that presents itself, in-and-of-itself

[Peter Pallotta]

Inate visual acuity

[Peter Pallotta]

Healthy self-regard for one's own subjective experience

[Peter Pallotta]

Imagination

[JC Jones]

ability to read other people's opinions and make them their own.

[Peter Pallotta]

Ability to read other people's opinions and make them their own

[Scott Warren]

a) experiences.

b) prejudices.

[Mike Benham]

ability as a golfer

[Jamie Barber]

head

[Chris Shaida]

Ability to read other people's opinions and make them their own

That's funny...

'Willingness to let bygones be bygones and to look with fresh and open eyes uncluttered by past experience or rigid preconceptions at each new vista that presents itself, in-and-of-itself'

But (more seriously) I don't really know what this means.  Are you saying that your ideal is to see 'each new vista' as if you'd never seen a vista before?  the 'in-and-of-itself' part seems to say that?  If that's the case then I'm at the other end of this (subjective or 'unconscious') spectrum--for me every 'vista' is another vista in a chain--and that's not something to be overcome (for me) or to get beyond to a purer, in-and-of-itself state.  Said another way, 'story' is absolutely essential for me in experiencing a golf course--whether it's the story of the golf course, the story of play on that course, my story in getting to this particular day and this particular swing, the stories of my playing partners, etc.    Even a course that I know almost nothing about becomes (for me) an experience about finding or even inventing a 'story'.  Maybe this means I'm just bad zen material...

[JC Jones]

Like Wesley Snipes's apartment complex in White Men Can't Jump: Vista View

"There ain't no vista and there ain't no view and there sure as hell ain't no vistas of no views"

[Melvyn Morrow]

Taste?   So much of each persons appreciation for gca lies in their ..._____ Lack of commitment to the game of golf preferring to bastardise a great Game due to one's ignorance

Ops no offence intended, of course, just completing a caption. But then you would expect me to give a honest opinion otherwise
whats the point of asking.

Melvyn

[Mike Hendren]

...understanding of the myriad of ways and reasons the game of golf is played.

[Mac Plumart]

So much of each persons appreciation for gca lies in their ..._____


Idea of fun.

[Peter Pallotta]

Chris - really good and articulate post (and funny about being bad zen material...). I haven't thought it through as well as you have, but also I mainly just meant that I could better appreciate specific architecture (on a specific hole on a specific course) if as I first viewed it (the vista) I tried to stop myself from too quickly saying something like a) "Oh yeah, I've seen this before, it's like the 7th hole at X, he tries to fool you into going left off the tee...or b) "this course sucks, I never deserved that double bogie on the last, that was an unfair hole, and now what do we got here - oh yeah, another strangely designed hole, I can't make any sense of it".

Peter

Bogie - nice post too, very good to include "ways AND reasons".

[JESII]

So much of each persons appreciation for gca lies in their ... EXPECTATIONS 

On the first go'round...


After that, it must spring from their ability to learn new things.

[Phil_the_Author]

Ability to be inspired and awed...

[Peter Pallotta]

For some odd reason, I now feel inspired to quote from one of my favourite (and best) plays of the last 50 years.

"Stocks, bonds, objects of art - what are they? An opportunity to make money. Perhaps.  An opportunuty to lose money. Perhaps.  An opportunity to 'indulge and to learn about ourselves'? Perhaps. So f--king what, what isn't? They're an event, that's all they are.  A guy comes up to you, you make a call, you send in a brochure, it doesn't matter, 'There're these properties I'd like for you to see.'  What does it mean? What you want it to mean?"


             

[JMEvensky]

For some odd reason, I now feel inspired to quote from one of my favourite (and best) plays of the last 50 years.

"Stocks, bonds, objects of art - what are they? An opportunity to make money. Perhaps.  An opportunuty to lose money. Perhaps.  An opportunity to 'indulge and to learn about ourselves'? Perhaps. So f--king what, what isn't? They're an event, that's all they are.  A guy comes up to you, you make a call, you send in a brochure, it doesn't matter, 'There're these properties I'd like for you to see.'  What does it mean? What you want it to mean?"


             

GGR?

Maybe you could award a set of steak knives to the one who finally determines TEP's purpose on this website.

[Peter Pallotta]

ha, ha - good one, Jeff. 

Yes, GGR. And, re purpose, maybe this: 'What's the point? What's the f--king point, anyway? I gotta argue with you, I gotta bust heads with the cops - all to sell your dirt to deadbeats. Money in the mattress!"

[Jim_Kennedy]

..wallet.

[George Pazin]

As I read that quote, I feared it was GGR.

Along with musicals, I do not get GGR.

Stocks, bonds, objects of art - they are not events. They are assets.

Lots of interesting answers, I think I favor Bogey's. Though I did laugh hardest with Peter's repetition post...perfect comic timing.

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