Truly Affordable Golf

[Jim_Kennedy]

Live on the golf course for free.
 
http://www.curtis-ne.com/amlots.html

[Steve_ Shaffer]

Is there a good deli nearby so I can get a real pastrami sandwich? If not, do I have to hop onto my G5 and fly to Chicago?

[Jim_Kennedy]

They only sell AVgas at Curtis, take the second plane.  

There's cattle on them thar' plains, so plenty of navels available to make your own.    

[Jim_Kennedy]

The course:
http://www.curtis-ne.com/arrowheadgolfcourse.html

No long lines at hole #6:

[Adam Clayman]

I actually know this course. It's a Marty Johnson nine holer with different sets of tees so one can play 18 different holes. We get a group or two to go every year and we always cash. This year I had to be excused because of my Nova Scotia trip. Conditions are tough and the architecture is somewhat disappointing. But, the fun to be had is legendary.

One caveat, this place is notorious for having tons and I mean tons of ditch weed all around it.

[Peter Pallotta]

Steve - perfect! A very under-rated discussion point around here, i.e. Is there a good deli close by? And I'd add: "And can a guy get a good cup of coffee someplace?"

P

[Adam Clayman]

Heck, There's not even a good pastrami sandwich to be had in Chicago, anymore. The answer to Steve's question is 'not really'. Although, The closest best food is Italian in Cozad, at Bella Italia. Unless you want steak, this is Nebraska after all.

[Jim_Kennedy]

Steve,

M&N Sandwich Shop, Lincoln Ne. - ca. 227 miles from Curtis, Rt. 80 most of the way.

Chicago-style sandwiches, and you won't find better even in Chicago. I've been living on the west coast for a year now, and my desperate search to sate my craving for M&N has taken me to every deli in town claiming to be Chicago style. They're good, but they're not M&N. This is one of the few gems of Lincoln (along with The Watering Hole's grilled wings) that you won't find ANYWHERE else, and once you've had it, you'll want to keep going back, no matter how unhealthy a giant sandwich of meat HAS to be.

[Steve_ Shaffer]

Jim

Thanks for the help but that's a long drive for a pastrami sandwich. I think I'll stick to Philly, NY, Chicago or LA for good pastrami. Even Phoenix has some good delis- Chompies for example. I'm spending my winter in PHX again.

Is this the first mention of pastrami on gca?


Curtis just is not for me. My high school was 6x larger than Curtis:

Curtis, NE
Curtis is known as Nebraska's Easter City due to its famed 40-year-old Easter Pageant tradition. This 3.266-square-kilometer community of approximately 832 persons in southern Nebraska's Medicine Valley has the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture and an airport three minutes away.

Sound good? All righty, then: Curtis offers two options for free-land claimers. Consolidated Companies, Inc. created Roll 'n Hills lots to boost the local economy by providing free sites on paved streets with all utilities for single-family homes. Three of those lots now have occupied homes, says Ed Coles of Consolidated, and nine remain.

Additional free lots are available through the city of Curtis that overlook the all-grass nine-hole Arrowhead Meadows Golf Course, which is one of the best public courses in the state-at least according to Medicine Valley's economic development website .

[Peter Pallotta]

Reminds me of watching "Fargo" for the first time -- its opening sequence with that single car driving along a two-lane road through the heavy snow for miles and miles and miles across a bleak and wind-swept (and unchanging) landscape.

After the movie, my wife says "What an amazing opening".  I agreed - but then she says "It really set the tone for watching the unfolding story of simple truths and strong independent types"...and I say "What?! I thought it was designed to create an ANXIETY attack! I mean, where IS everybody?! Where the F--K would a guy get a cup of coffee?!"

Yes - not so much the strong silent type am I.

But if this is what affordable golf costs, I think I'd rather pay more....

[RJ_Daley]

Pietro, I hear some hockey players that come down here to play from Manitoba, where they say it is so flat and desolate out there, that you can sit on your front porch and watch your dog run away for three days.   

[Scott Szabo]

I actually know this course. It's a Marty Johnson nine holer with different sets of tees so one can play 18 different holes. We get a group or two to go every year and we always cash. This year I had to be excused because of my Nova Scotia trip. Conditions are tough and the architecture is somewhat disappointing. But, the fun to be had is legendary.

One caveat, this place is notorious for having tons and I mean tons of ditch weed all around it.

Ditch weed?  In Nebraska?  Say it ain't so!

Actually, we see it on a few of the courses we play each year during our Corn Holer event!

[Jim_Kennedy]

No crowds (just a few beard-pullers) and you're free to choose your own layout.  

[Gib_Papazian]

Here is one that is dear to my heart. I first played Indian Camp right after it opened in 1981, wandering around the course with my gun-rack toting, lunatic brother-in-law (now a judge, oddly enough) and the Redhead.

I've always loved hinky golf courses and this one - as my departed brother Rick Short used to say - "is a perfectly delightful muni."

http://www.indiancampgolfcourse.com/index_files/Page298.htm

[Scott Warren]

Steve_Shaffer:

Remarkably (perhaps) this isn't pastrami's GCA.com debut.

My search revealed 15 other threads that have made mention of the world's premier sandwich meat!

[Jim_Kennedy]

Scott,
Lucky he didn't ask about the prosciutto (only 3).