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Steve_ Shaffer

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Jack Whitaker, Golf Commentator
« on: May 10, 2012, 12:38:06 PM »
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J_ Crisham

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Re: Jack Whitaker, Golf Commentator
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2012, 12:59:30 PM »
Ran into Jack after a round at Merion a couple of years ago-still had the commanding voice- one of the great sports announcers of our times.
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Howard Riefs

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Re: Jack Whitaker, Golf Commentator
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2012, 01:00:06 PM »
This is a gem:

At one point while covering the British Open at St. Andrews, he said: “Nobody designed this course. Nobody with a pencil and $2 million and five bulldozers. This was made by nature. It comes out of the ground. It was done with wind and rain and sun and the help of a few sheep. And so, while for most Americans and other people, it’s not love at first sight at St. Andrews, St. Andrews’s Old Course is like a dry martini — an acquired taste, and, as such, it remains with you forever.”

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Rick Shefchik

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Re: Jack Whitaker, Golf Commentator
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2012, 01:11:40 PM »
Quote from: Howard Riefs on May 10, 2012, 01:00:06 PM
This is a gem:

At one point while covering the British Open at St. Andrews, he said: “Nobody designed this course. Nobody with a pencil and $2 million and five bulldozers. This was made by nature. It comes out of the ground. It was done with wind and rain and sun and the help of a few sheep. And so, while for most Americans and other people, it’s not love at first sight at St. Andrews, St. Andrews’s Old Course is like a dry martini — an acquired taste, and, as such, it remains with you forever.”



It also contains my favorite Whitakerism: "And so,..."

For years my media friends and I had fun imitating a Jack Whitaker on-air essay, beginning the most mundane, rambling thoughts with, "And so, another ------ has come and gone, leaving us with..."

But it's not worth doing parodies of mediocrity. Whitaker was great, and distinctive.
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Cliff Hamm

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Re: Jack Whitaker, Golf Commentator
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2012, 01:12:34 PM »
And today we have Jim Nantz....so much for society progressing
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Melvyn Morrow

Re: Jack Whitaker, Golf Commentator
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2012, 02:52:55 PM »

Howard

Alas that comment is incorrect

At one point while covering the British Open at St. Andrews, he said: “Nobody designed this course. Nobody with a pencil and $2 million and five bulldozers. This was made by nature. It comes out of the ground. It was done with wind and rain and sun and the help of a few sheep. And so, while for most Americans and other people, it’s not love at first sight at St. Andrews, St. Andrews’s Old Course is like a dry martini — an acquired taste, and, as such, it remains with you forever.”

The design you have today at St Andrews is down to Old Tom Morris. It was designed, he changed the course to nearly double its size adding new Holes and Greens widening fairways etc. plus adding and deleting bunkers and much more. TOC is an Old Tom Morris design.

Melvyn
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Willie_Dow

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Re: Jack Whitaker, Golf Commentator
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2012, 05:56:18 PM »
Having seen Jack's library of golf books like Darwin's: "Every Idle Dream", "Green Memories", "British Golf", "Golf Between Two Wars" and "British Clubs" I'm sure his  comments as to the architecture of the Old Course were not intended as a downplay of Old Tom.
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Melvyn Morrow

Re: Jack Whitaker, Golf Commentator
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2012, 05:59:19 PM »
Willie

I agree I do not think anything was meant, nor did I take it that way. My post was just a comment.
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