I've been involved in the golf business part time since 1981, basically full time since about 1992. As I just wrote to George Bahto, who shares some of my "second career" vocational trajectory, I can't think of a day when I have been prouder of associates and friends and colleagues in the business whom I get to write about. Yesterday was just an amazing experience, a vindication for much of what many of us have been working on, and most importantly, a day to feel great for Gil and Jim Wagner and his whole team because the global golf industry now has a better sense than ever of what's possible in the game.
It's the culmination (though the beginning, not the end) of so much that Doak and Coore & Crenshaw and Mike Keiser and Bahto and Geoff Shackleford and Tommy Naccarato and Mike Davis and Lorne Rubenstein and Jeff Mingay and so many others have been thinking about and working on for decades.