Who would you pay $1000 to golf with?

[Anthony Gray]

  Including dead guys.




 And what would you want to talk about IN TERMS OF GCA.

[Sean_A]

  Including dead guys.




 And what would you want to talk about IN TERMS OF GCA.

Like.. prostitution?

Ciao

[Gib_Papazian]

I already spent 5K for Goodale, Sir Bob, McBride and Tiger B., but really 100K is the number - just passing the plate in the Treehouse.


Okay, my Dad . . . . . figure another 100K - 1K per question, after that, he'd tell me to turn on the football game.


Charles Blair Macdonald . . . . . but I get a time machine to play NGLA with him - just before the 1922 Walker Cup.


Actually, I want to caddy for Bernard Darwin.


One last round with Uncle George Bahto - a return to Fishers Island, with Charlie Ferguson.


Add them all up, $1,000,000 is getting off cheap, swear to God.

[Anthony Gray]

I already spent 5K for Goodale, Sir Bob, McBride and Tiger B., but really 100K is the number - just passing the plate in the Treehouse.


Okay, my Dad . . . . . figure another 100K - 1K per question, after that, he'd tell me to turn on the football game.


Charles Blair Macdonald . . . . . but I get a time machine to play NGLA with him - just before the 1922 Walker Cup.


Actually, I want to caddy for Bernard Darwin.


One last round with Uncle George Bahto - a return to Fishers Island, with Charlie Ferguson.


Add them all up, $1,000,000 is getting off cheap, swear to God.

 CBM and ask him if the templates are genius or lack of it.


 

[Gib_Papazian]

Anthony Gray, that was pithy enough that I would have thought Barny had written it.


 

[John Emerson]

1. William Flynn.  Ask about how his turfgrass management experience may have shaped his designs and how that led to the start of the USGA greens section


2. Tiger Woods…it’s Tiger freakin woods

[David Ober]

Tiger


Bill Murray


Doak


Hanse


Eckenrode


Crenshaw-Coore (they are one person, right?)

[Chuck Glowacki]

Willie Nelson

[Jeff Schley]

• C/C
• CBM
• OTM
• Dr. Mac

I tried using acronyms for all. There are others as I have a lot to learn and you only tend to get smarter listening not talking.

[Peter Pallotta]

I'd want to play with Ben Hogan at either NGLA or Shinnecock, using 1950s equipment. I'd ask him his thinking on every shot, as he picked angles and clubs and trajectories. He probably wouldn't say all that much -- but he'd be such a great ball striker that I could always tell what he was thinking by the results.

[Peter Flory]

Bernard Darwin, any and every golden age architect, almost every golfer from pre 1940 whose name I'd recognize.

[Terry Lavin]

I paid more, to a great charity at Shoreacres in a Pro-Am back in the early 90”s. The first nine was with Tom Purtzer and the second was with Fred Couples. I played with a friend who had terminal cancer. He died two days later. Despite his terminal illness, he shot 76.  A very memorable day.

I also played in the Western Open pro-am a few times, an event benefiting the Evans Scholars Foundation.

[Anthony Gray]

 I have paid nearly this to golf with Jim Thornton. I would recommend this experience for everyone except the person that accidentally but a sesame seed bun on his Big Mac.

[MCirba]

Besides one more round with my Dad at a course of his choosing...

1k per man to play in a foursome with Hugh Wilson, George Crump, and Ab Smith at Cobb's Creek prior to the 1928 US Publinks.   Wilson and Crump would have both been dead by then but they'd have the knowledge of how their other creations turned out at that point.   Another grand each to have Tom Paul and A.W. Tillinghast walking along with the group.

Joe Bausch, Geoff Walsh, and Matt Frey would need to be there to caddy for the ghosts and I'd want John Burnes on my bag as John has never seen a shot he doesn't think I can hit.

[John Kavanaugh]

Playing golf with the dead is a dangerous proposition. For only $1,000 you are most likely going to meet them on their side.

[MCirba]

Playing golf with the dead is a dangerous proposition. For only $1,000 you are most likely going to meet them on their side.

John,

A thousand was worth a lot more money in their time.   I'm confident they'd let me live.

[PCCraig]

I would pay $1000 to never have to see another one of these inane threads posted on GCA.

[Ian Andrew]

Through circumstance I have played with most of the living architects mentioned.
Highly recommend all of them as great company and amazing conversations.

I would say if you're going architects, Mike Clayton should be included.


Ben Crenshaw
He's someone I have never met.

[John Kavanaugh]

I would pay $1000 to never have to see another one of these inane threads posted on GCA.

I tried that with Wake Forest logos.

[John Kavanaugh]

Time travel back to play a round with Hogan. You’re driving with him to the course and the last thing you hear is “What car wreck?” 

[JMEvensky]

Willie Nelson

A man with his priorities in order.

[Bruce Katona]

It was more than this to play in a Pro-Am charity event @ Somerset Hills.  I had the pleasure of being partnered with Woody Austin on the front & Jim Dent on the back. 


This event allowed the public to come and watch - like a real gallery - so the Mrs  & our daughter had the opportunity to watch us play. 


Quite the day and very enjoyable.

[David Ober]

I once more or less did this to play with Phil and Rickie Fowler. Had to gamble it up with them for significant stakes back at the old club. By the time the first ball was in the air, I had at least that in total exposure.


Playing with Mickelson (he was 19th in the world at the time) and Rickie (he was 5th in the world at the time) on a super difficult course with rock-hard greens running 14 playing and off of bare fairway lies was ... an absolute blast. Phil was such a good dude the entire time. Treated us to lunch and stories after. I'll never forget that day.


If anyone's interested, long thread here: [size=78%]https://forums.golfwrx.com/topic/1240914-a-scratch-player-against-phil-mickelson-with-a-700-yard-advantage/[/size]


On the day, I think I lost $800. It was worth every penny.

[Anthony Gray]

I once more or less did this to play with Phil and Rickie Fowler. Had to gamble it up with them for significant stakes back at the old club. By the time the first ball was in the air, I had at least that in total exposure.


Playing with Mickelson (he was 19th in the world at the time) and Rickie (he was 5th in the world at the time) on a super difficult course with rock-hard greens running 14 playing and off of bare fairway lies was ... an absolute blast. Phil was such a good dude the entire time. Treated us to lunch and stories after. I'll never forget that day.


If anyone's interested, long thread here: [size=78%]https://forums.golfwrx.com/topic/1240914-a-scratch-player-against-phil-mickelson-with-a-700-yard-advantage/[/size]


On the day, I think I lost $800. It was worth every penny.

 Excellent.

[Mark Molyneux]

A.W. Tillinghast
Old and Young Tom Morris
P.G. Wodehouse