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Tim Lewis

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« on: October 11, 2013, 06:31:37 PM »
Hi

My name is Tim Lewis, and I have been following this site for quite a while now. I am 16 years old, and from Milwaukee Wisconsin. Me and my family are members at Ozaukee Country Club, a William Langford design. I got into golf architecture about a year and a half ago when I played Spyglass Hill, and Milwaukee Country Club and sought to find out why I enjoyed these courses more than others I have played. I later found Geoff Shackelford's Grounds for Golf which served as a great intro into the subject. Since then I have read much more material on the subject, including alot on this site. I really admire the work that guys like Tom Doak, and Coore and Crenshaw are doing for modern courses, and think that these courses are finally moving golf in the right direction. It is my dream to become a golf course architect one day, and because of this I spent last summer working at a club in Milwaukee called the Wisconsin Club(formerly known as the Brynwood Country Club). I most likely will not have a lot to contribute here because in regards to courses I have very little experience,  but hopefully I will have alot to learn. Some of the more famous courses that I have played and enjoyed are Lawsonia Links, Milwaukee Country Club, and Spyglass Hill. I am very excited to be a part of this group and hopefully I will learn a lot.

Tim Lewis

Tim Martin

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« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2013, 07:29:58 PM »
Tim-Great to have you. Welcome. :)

Joe Bausch

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« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2013, 07:46:23 PM »
Hey Tims,

Get a room!

Sincerely,
A. Czervik
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RJ_Daley

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« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2013, 08:13:26 PM »
Welcome Tim.  What do you know about the Tripoli golf club, right next to Brynwood.  Frankly, I've never been there, and wonder about it since it is an original Tom Bendelow course.  I'm guessing it has been remodeled a great deal from the olden times.  

You've obviously chosen one of the most interesting designs in Milwaukee in your liking of MCC.  What is it you like about the course?
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Jamey Bryan

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« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2013, 09:41:07 PM »
Welcome, Tim!  For myself, meeting many of our younger participants has been a highlight of my Golf Club Atlas experience.

I have one suggestion, though.....   Go back to you Freshman English Teacher and ask him/her for a refresher.....

"Me and my family are members at Ozaukee Country Club, a William Langford design"

The rest of your post was articulate, clear, and well expressed (Sorry, Son, but that mistake, along with ending a sentence with a preposition, really grates on me).

Again, though, welcome to the Treehouse and I hope you enjoy it as I have!!

Jamey
(an old goat)

JC Jones

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« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2013, 10:11:43 PM »
Tim,

Welcome.  Jamey is correct in that he is a VERY old goat.   ;D

I assure you that your grammatical error is not even close to as bad as some we've seen around here.
I get it, you are mad at the world because you are an adult caddie and few people take you seriously.

Excellent spellers usually lack any vision or common sense.

I know plenty of courses that are in the red, and they are killing it.

Jamey Bryan

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« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2013, 10:39:44 PM »
As always, Jason is correct on both counts.

Jamey
(a little older goat)

Tim Lewis

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« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2013, 12:30:00 AM »
RJ

My brother actually works at tripoli, but I have never played it and know absolutely nothing about it. The varsity golf team at my school also practices there, so maybe if I undergo some dramatic changes in my game come spring I'll be able to play it. In regards to MCC, I have only played it a couple times but the thing that strikes me the most about it is the bunkers. Through my limited experience I have not seen anything that even compares to the scale and beauty of the bunkers there. Hopefully I'll get to see more of the course so that experience the more subtle features of the course. My boss, the superintendent at The Wisconsin Club, is actually encouraging me to try to get a job at Milwaukee next year, but I feel quite comfortable with my current situation at the Wisconsin Club.

PCCraig

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« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2013, 10:53:23 AM »
Welcome Tim!
H.P.S.

Tim Gavrich

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« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2013, 11:19:35 AM »
Welcome, Tim, from a fellow early lover of GCA (I joined when I was 16, too, and I turned 24 on Thursday..wow, I feel old). You're in for a treat 'round these parts. If you've not already done so, do put some hours into devouring the course profiles, interviews and opinion pieces that form so much of the value of this site. And don't be afraid to chime in on these discussions. And there are a number of GCAers from your neck of the woods--try and take advantage of opportunities to meet up with them as best you can!

Enjoy; looking forward to your contributions.

--Tim
Senior Writer, GolfPass

Bob_Huntley

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« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2013, 01:10:34 PM »
Tim,

To avoid being humilated in future, just use MS Outlook and than transfer the message to GCA.

RCH

Jon Wiggett

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« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2013, 01:42:53 PM »
Welcome to the group Tim.

Jon

Paul Gray

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« Reply #12 on: October 13, 2013, 10:32:27 AM »
Firstly Tim, ignore all utterances regarding your grammar. You're probably in the top 1% around here and, last time I checked, grammatical perfection wasn't a prerequisite to becoming a good GCA. Besides, you're sixteen years old and still learning.

Welcome.  
In the places where golf cuts through pretension and elitism, it thrives and will continue to thrive because the simple virtues of the game and its attendant culture are allowed to be most apparent. - Tim Gavrich

JLahrman

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« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2013, 01:57:27 PM »
Tim,

To avoid being humilated in future, just use MS Outlook and than transfer the message to GCA.

RCH

Sir Bob, I believe that's "humiliated", not "humilated". Also, you needed "then", not "than". You're also missing a "the" before future. Now tell me honestly, were those deliberate plants from one of our most eloquent posters?

See Tim, everyone is ripe for the pickin' round here.

Anyway, you found this site the same way I did - I realized that I liked some courses better than others, but I had no idea how to put my finger on why. Welcome to the site.
« Last Edit: October 16, 2013, 02:00:31 PM by JLahrman »

Alex Miller

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« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2013, 02:40:24 PM »
Welcome, Tim, from a fellow early lover of GCA (I joined when I was 16, too, and I turned 24 on Thursday..wow, I feel old). You're in for a treat 'round these parts. If you've not already done so, do put some hours into devouring the course profiles, interviews and opinion pieces that form so much of the value of this site. And don't be afraid to chime in on these discussions. And there are a number of GCAers from your neck of the woods--try and take advantage of opportunities to meet up with them as best you can!

Enjoy; looking forward to your contributions.

--Tim

Happy Birthday Tim (Gavrich)!

Tim (Lewis), I'm turning 24 in 2 weeks and echo the sentiment. I found the site when I was 19 and joined when I was 20 after a year of pouring over course profiles and interviews. GCA actually helped me realize what it was I found interesting and mezmerizing about certain golf courses. I'm very glad I've found this place. Don't let it intimidate you as I think more can be gained through participation than observation, especially when it comes to meeting folks in real life and making new friends and playing new (amazing) golf courses.

Dan Kelly

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« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2013, 03:08:44 PM »
Welcome comma Tim. (Without the comma, of course, a poster is not welcoming you, but is telling everyone else to welcome you. Welcome, Tim. Greetings, Tim. Hello, Tim. Congratulations, Tim. Et cetera.)

As a grammar/spelling/syntax geek of the worst (or best, but probably worst) kind, I can't encourage you to ignore Jamey Bryan's first suggestion -- but only because, as you get older and start sending out letters seeking work (as a GCA or otherwise), you won't want people like me (not myself) and Jamey Bryan to have an instant negative brain-spark if you start a sentence with "Me and him" instead of "He and I."

Just FYI: Tom Doak's mother was the same sort of geek, if I'm remembering Tom's testimony accurately. My guess is that she passed it along to her son!

I can assure you, though, as others have, that you're nowhere near the bottom quartile here, grammatically speaking. A person could spend his whole life noting the abundant errors in the back-and-forth here (quite a few in this thread, already).

I wish you all the best of luck.

Dan

P.S. My advice to you, and to many other young people: Learn how to break your writing into paragraphs. So much easier to read, that way.

Oh, and by the way: Feel free to ignore the comment about ending a sentence with a preposition. Winston Churchill was said to have remarked that ending a sentence with a preposition was something up with which he would not put -- but, of course, he was joking.

Speaking of preposition jokes:

Did you ever hear about the young boy who, lying in bed, saw his father coming up the stairs with a book in his hands? The boy said: "What did you bring that book I don't want to be read to out of up for?"
« Last Edit: October 16, 2013, 03:17:42 PM by Dan Kelly »
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