R&A - shocking behaviour

[Niall C]

It's 7.12 am St Andrews mean time as I write this. Currently spending a weekend in the dear old town (and it certainly is dear - have you seen the price of a drink round here !) and just returned from an early morning walk round to the first tee at TOC and took the opportunity to look in the R&A clubhouse windows while no one was about. I have to say it certainly looks palatial inside. The room with the bay window in particular looks like a lovely place to sit and as I looked in I gazed upon the portraits on the wall. Couldn't help noticing and indeed was shocked to note that one of the portraits is of our dear old Queen (she's quite expensive as well) and that it was placed in such a position that the monarchs head was below that of several other portraits (one of which might be of dear old Horace Hutchinson - hard to tell with the smoked glass windows). Now that might not mean much to you folks in the colonies but trust me, that's simply shocking and unacceptable behaviour.


How they retain their Royal status I don't know but more to the point if they can't get that sort of simple etiquette right, are they fit to govern this wonderful game of ours ?


Niall

[Thomas Dai]

April Fools Day R&A style?
atb

[Tony_Muldoon]

It's 7.12 am St Andrews mean time as I write this. Currently spending a weekend in the dear old town (and it certainly is dear - have you seen the price of a drink round here !) and just returned from an early morning walk round to the first tee at TOC and took the opportunity to look in the R&A clubhouse windows while no one was about. I have to say it certainly looks palatial inside. The room with the bay window in particular looks like a lovely place to sit and as I looked in I gazed upon the portraits on the wall. Couldn't help noticing and indeed was shocked to note that one of the portraits is of our dear old Queen (she's quite expensive as well) and that it was placed in such a position that the monarchs head was below that of several other portraits (one of which might be of dear old Horace Hutchinson - hard to tell with the smoked glass windows). Now that might not mean much to you folks in the colonies but trust me, that's simply shocking and unacceptable behaviour.


How they retain their Royal status I don't know but more to the point if they can't get that sort of simple etiquette right, are they fit to govern this wonderful game of ours ?


Niall

This is another sad case of PC. 
 
They were forced by the Scotish Assembly  to lower it to a height where she couldn't overlook even the tiniest politician. I understand to avoid embarraisng a certain eminent lady of 'restricted height', it is now practically resting on the ground.

[Mike_Young]

How they retain their Royal status I don't know but more to the point if they can't get that sort of simple etiquette right, are they fit to govern this wonderful game of ours ?


Niall

Who said they were fit to govern this game?  That is a figment of their imagination.  Same for USGA....all just a big house for them to play as though they govern.....most of us just play as we wish...

[Mike Sweeney]

Who said they were fit to govern this game?  That is a figment of their imagination.  Same for USGA....all just a big house for them to play as though they govern.....most of us just play as we wish...

I love Mike Young


This April Fools Day R&A thread reminds me our political friends selling out our online data to the big carriers (Verizon is mine) that donate to their PAC's. Citizens/voters get all hyped up, "LETS CHANGE WASHINGTON!!"

For $50 per year, I set up a Virtual Private Network that keeps a bunch of bad guys out and it also solved a huge problem we had with the security that we needed for a big client.

I can now point that VPN to a bunch of countries that the Queen still "watches over", including Canada and "UK". My Irish heritage can now be used to support or poke the Queen in the privacy of my new VPN

[Bill Gayne]

Some great quotes on the attached link. If it wasn't for the funny quotes this story would be believable.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/donald-trump-build-wall-around-10138354

[Mike Sweeney]

Some great quotes on the attached link. If it wasn't for the funny quotes this story would be believable.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/donald-trump-build-wall-around-10138354

Fabulous


He added: “The hares have been here thousands of years. The hares are the heirs and won’t be kept out by a man with fake hair.”