One time a thing occurred to me
What's real and what's for sale?
If I'm able to follow, what's real is not a journal with sketches that recently was profiled in LINKS Magazine.
What's for sale is that very journal! At an auction house to the highest bidder, who presumably would believe it to be authentic.
I confess: I'm naïve, cursed with a child's understanding of right from wrong, and equating the virtue of truth with Utopia. To me it doesn't make sense - I cannot wrap my head around it - that a person or small group of people would mislead or distort just so they can seem cool. When I was younger, there was the older kid in our neighborhood saying we just hadn't reached an elusive level of Donkey Kong yet. I looked for a long time for the ferris wheel he described, but gave up when even the guys in Fistful of Quarters never reached it.
So after 15 years on this site, can you help me discern if any of these are real? I generally can't keep up with all the back and forth over page after page when there are scalding hot topics.
• Melvyn Morrow – Has anybody met him? In person? The name sounds made-up like Hunter Hearst Helmsley.
• Top 100 course NLE in Madagascar – I believe this was the site’s version of Sidd Finch.
• Merion – No energy to revisit. Simple answer choices: A) Guys were lying, B) Unclear or differences were of opinions, not facts
• Phil Young’s mention of great seaside Georgia course that does 68 rounds per year – I think we discerned it was actually a fictional essay mistaken for real
• Ian Scott-Taylor – The little bit I read this morning seems to indicate bogus. How pervasive does this reach? Who knew it wasn’t truthful but advanced the idea anyway? Are there any individuals mentioned that don’t exist?
• Phil Young – Is this a real person?
• Phil Young’s brother’s course record at Bethpage – He’s mentioned it often. Are there any other records of it? Did he go on to have other golf accomplishments?
• Others I’ve missed or forgotten?
This is a great site. We’ve all had a place to gather to share, discuss, and learn. Unfortunately it isn’t like the produce department where parody is in a different bin than course reviews with biographical information on Flynn across the aisle. Apologies in advance for not being as discerning as others; thanks for any assistance divining.