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Ian Andrew

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #25 on: November 12, 2014, 09:03:27 PM »
Congratulations Brad!
This is an excellent choice.

I plan to be there and look forward to your speech!
"Appreciate the constructive; ignore the destructive." -- John Douglas

Mark Hissey

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #26 on: November 12, 2014, 10:00:30 PM »
Congrats my friend. Really great news and very much deserved.

Brad Klein

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #27 on: November 13, 2014, 05:53:56 AM »
Very kind of all of you folks. I was really honored and humbled when news came of the award. I think it's easy to be cynical about such stuff -- especially for those who adopt that attitude professionally or avocationally over drinks. But for those of us who have been getting up at 5 AM every day for years and walking and talking golf courses with superintendents and architects and builders and shapers and players and owners and then writing about it and trying to get obliged in a market that's getting harder and harder and that squeezes out more and more good people - persisting in this as a (second) profession is a lot of work in its own right.

As with any trade, doing the actually work (of writing) is the easiest and most enjoyable part. And in my case, being able to spend endless hours watching the sun go up and shift across a layout an then watching it as the shade lengthen sand the day ends -- well there's no more beautiful office in the world. There's a world of difference between between playing those courses and forming a judgment about them - and studying them, learning the technology of their deep structure and making she of all that to casual players and even to those who are sure they know all about how to fix a golf course. As I'll tell the assembly of ASGCA next March, I've been really lucky to have been bused along the way by some real dedicated people who have been gracious with their time and advice - Herbert Warren Wind, Geoffrey Cornish, Rees Jones, Pete Dye, Lorne Rubenstein chief among them, and latterly, a whole range of good folks, Michael Pascucci, Mark Hissey, Mike Policano, Steve Lapper, Tommy Naccarato, Dick Youngscap and various editors at book houses and magazines. And of course a whole generation or two of superintendents, from Ted Horton and Oscar Miles to Mark Stovall, Paul Stead and Scott Ramsey; and architect/builders, like Gil Hanse, Jim Urbina, Bill Coore, Tom Doak, Brian Silva, Steve Smyers, Paul Albanese, Andy Staples, Jay Blasi -- and dozens of others. So it is a pretty big community we're all part of, a lot larger than 100. And it's been an honor to be part of that and to have found a home where I can share what I love with others who share that commitment. . 

Steve Lang

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #28 on: November 13, 2014, 06:32:16 AM »
 8) Congrats Brad..  Respect certainly well earned!

but I hardly think your lifetime is up, or the inkwell is dry.. what portends for the future, what would Ross do?


p.s  did you finally learn how to post pics?
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Paul Jones

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #29 on: November 13, 2014, 10:10:49 AM »
Congrats Brad.  Well deserved.
Paul Jones
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John Mayhugh

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #30 on: November 13, 2014, 12:33:20 PM »
Congratulations, Brad.  Your enthusiasm and frankness are a great combination.

Jeff_Brauer

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #31 on: November 13, 2014, 12:35:22 PM »
Congrats, Brad.  Don't expect Carnac to go easy on you, though.
Jeff Brauer, ASGCA Director of Outreach

Brad Klein

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #32 on: November 13, 2014, 12:45:43 PM »
Yikes, Jeff, I forgot about Carnac. But I'm already planning my own little PowerPoint response (if allowed) to make up for my 1995 presentation.

Jeff_Brauer

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #33 on: November 13, 2014, 01:09:19 PM »
Well, you will have the stage for the traditional acceptance speech.  I presume visuals will be okay.  Ron Whitten brought visual materials if I recall......
Jeff Brauer, ASGCA Director of Outreach

Terry Lavin

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #34 on: November 13, 2014, 01:29:18 PM »
When and where is the golf outing?
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  H.L. Mencken

Rick Shefchik

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #35 on: November 15, 2014, 12:05:19 PM »
Great news, Brad. Well deserved.
"Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation." - Grantland Rice

John Kirk

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #36 on: November 15, 2014, 12:11:21 PM »
Congratulations, Brad.  You are my favorite golf journalist.
« Last Edit: November 15, 2014, 12:17:03 PM by John Kirk »

John Crowley

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Re: Brad Klein wins ASGCA Donald Ross lifetime achievement award
« Reply #37 on: November 18, 2014, 12:31:31 AM »
Brad,
Congratulations! Very well deserved.
Thanks for kindling my interest in golf course architecture through your writings and the times on the course together.
Your wit, frankness and passion are refreshing.