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Declan Kavanagh

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New Member Intro- Greetings from frigid Chicago!
« on: February 25, 2014, 01:15:32 AM »
GCA-

Excited to be a new guy on the site.  Grew up playing a handful of times each summer with my father then after two failed summers of caddying at Winged Foot (Age 13) and Nantucket GC (Age 18), I was lucky enough to loop at Shinnecock for 5 years starting before the Open in 2004.  I've been addicted to golf ever since while learning a lot about golf and life as a looper along the way.

After sinking a putt to win a match in the Geary Cup (a Ryder Cup format match between NGLA and Shinnecock Caddies) in 2008 I entered the "real world" and quickly realized I had been spoiled rotten by getting used to Shinnecock, NGLA and Maidstone as a youth.  Golf took a backseat for a few years after college even though I discovered some public gems in Chicago during those years. 

For the past couple years I have been a weekend warrior in the Chicago, MI, WI area and was lucky enough to log in 55 rounds last year in the area.

Here are some lists I thought of tonight:

Top 5 courses I have played IMHO:

1) Shinnecock (biased but don't challenge me after a few libations)
2) NGLA
3) Bethpage
4) Yale
5) Butler

Top 5 "Bucket List' rounds that probably won't happen:

1) Cypress
2) Pine Valley
3) Chicago Golf
4) Fishers Island
5) Crystal Downs

Top 5 rounds that I hope will happen:

1) Pebble
2) Pinehurst
3) Whistling
4) Bandon
5) Chambers Bay

Top 5 Chicago Courses played:

1) Butler
2) Skokie
3) Shoreacres
4) Olympia Fields (Both are amazing)
5) Medinah

Top 5 Public Courses I like to play in the Midwest

1) Arcadia Bluffs (best vista in the Midwest)
2) Erin Hills
3) Forest Dunes
4) Cog Hill
5) Harborside/George Dunne

Not to mention everywhere in Ireland and Scotland.... One day!

Cheers!

Tim_Cronin

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Re: New Member Intro- Greetings from frigid Chicago!
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2014, 01:29:59 AM »
Welcome to the Treehouse! We bark a lot here, but don't bite. Most of the time, anyway.
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Kevin Lynch

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Re: New Member Intro- Greetings from frigid Chicago!
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2014, 06:43:29 AM »
Welcome aboard, DK.  Hope you enjoy the experience.  Is there a formal hazing to join GCA's Chicago Mafia?

Jud_T

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Re: New Member Intro- Greetings from frigid Chicago!
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2014, 07:36:27 AM »
DK,

Welcome to Thunderdome.  There's more GCAers in Chicago than you can shake a stick at, any of whom would be happy to have you buy them a round of drinks. ;).  The odds of you not playing with one of us this summer are pretty slim, that is if we ever see 50 degrees again!
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

John Kavanaugh

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Re: New Member Intro- Greetings from frigid Chicago!
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2014, 08:21:57 AM »
Best first post ever. This goes without saying, obviously based on the lucidity of your post alone. We can't be related.  I hope the close proximity of the spelling of our names is not a crutch which slows down your quest to play great courses. I apologize in advance.

Terry Lavin

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Re: New Member Intro- Greetings from frigid Chicago!
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2014, 09:06:34 AM »
Can somebody in the Twin Cities do a well being check on Pat Craig?
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  H.L. Mencken

BCowan

Re: New Member Intro- Greetings from frigid Chicago!
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2014, 09:16:15 AM »
Welcome former fellow Looper!

Scott Wintersteen

Re: New Member Intro- Greetings from frigid Chicago!
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2014, 10:06:04 AM »
Welcome from another Chicagoan.  I am sure your course list will generate some chatter.

Jim Tang

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Re: New Member Intro- Greetings from frigid Chicago!
« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2014, 02:31:43 PM »
Greetings and welcome.  I'm in the Chicagoland area as well.  Hopefully you'll get out this year with the Chicago GCA crew for a few rounds.

PCCraig

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Re: New Member Intro- Greetings from frigid Chicago!
« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2014, 11:24:40 PM »
Sorry Terry, I'm late to the welcome wagon... :) just spent the whole day getting to Bandon!

Welcome Declan!
H.P.S.

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