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Title: Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: John Kavanaugh on August 17, 2006, 10:23:00 AM
Please express your feelings for Tobacco Road in the ancient Haiku form..
Title: Re:Why Tobacco Road doesn't fit in a top 100..
Post by: Kyle Harris on August 17, 2006, 10:40:24 AM
Strantz Polarizes
Raters, players and public
More times for Kyle
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: John Kavanaugh on August 17, 2006, 10:58:19 AM
He say don't go play
Road is a waste of a day
Yes, he is Crusty
Title: Re:Why Tobacco Road doesn't fit in a top 100..
Post by: T.J. Sturges on August 17, 2006, 11:00:14 AM
I really enjoy TR.  It is a fun place to play.  One's first round there can be difficult (I was lucky enough to play it with someone who knew the course my first time around), but could you not say the same about Cruden Bay, The Old Course, NGLA, and frankly lots of other great courses?

The course is loaded with strategy, which is why the people who love it, LOVE IT.  The course is short on "framed holes", "shot values" (whatever that is), and perceived "fairness".  This would explain why many GD rates would not enjoy it.  In my opinion, it is one of the 3 or 4 places I would most want to play in the Pinehurst area.

TS

(not talented enough to compose Haiku)
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Mike_Cirba on August 17, 2006, 11:00:57 AM
He say don't go play
Road is a waste of a day
Yes, he is Crusty

Mad John Kavanaugh
That is quite hysterical
See, you made us laugh!  ;D
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Brian_Sleeman on August 17, 2006, 11:01:42 AM
Exhilirating
Golf as a pure, fun, challenge
Can't wait to go back
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Michael Moore on August 17, 2006, 11:12:44 AM
Where's the f#@$&ing green?
I have no idea. Can you
Check the yardage book?
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Tom Huckaby on August 17, 2006, 11:16:44 AM
For Ted S:

GD says 23
In state of NC - not bad
GM is the culprit

Now another:

Low course rating, high slope
Very tough to call much fun
But many do defend it


Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Mike_Sweeney on August 17, 2006, 11:19:22 AM
Stantz is Good Mad.
Jaka is Bad Mad.
Go play The Road and be Good Mad.
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Brent Hutto on August 17, 2006, 11:29:46 AM
Sixth green, where's the ball
In the cup, one swing, free drinks
Then home 'til next year
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: JohnV on August 17, 2006, 11:40:13 AM
Great Architecture?
Maybe yes or maybe not
Still - great fun to play
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Phil McDade on August 17, 2006, 11:43:41 AM
No love for the Road
Which is more underrated?
For me, Lawsonia
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: A.G._Crockett on August 17, 2006, 12:19:46 PM
Laughing out loud
Playing always easier than it looks
Cool golf
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Jay Flemma on August 17, 2006, 12:29:46 PM
Invigoration!
My golf dreams have come to life
Will you marry me?

Genius thread...best Michael Moore post ever!
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: A.G._Crockett on August 17, 2006, 12:31:33 PM
Invigoration!
My golf dreams have come to life
Will you marry me?

This one is the clubhouse leader...
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Jay Flemma on August 17, 2006, 12:50:13 PM
No way man, thanks for the props, but Michael Moore's is so good, I wanna license it for a bumpper sticker and t-shirts.

"Where's the f&%$ing green?" could be a catchphrase!
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Phil McDade on August 17, 2006, 12:56:00 PM
Sorry, had to add this...

Mucci rebuke soon?
I haiku'd Tobacco Road
Without having played
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: John_Cullum on August 17, 2006, 01:14:36 PM
What, Tobacco Road
Haiku, where do you come up
with this awful crap

Haiku is an art form invented to give dumb elementary school teachers something to teach. I hate everything about it.

(But I did like Michael Moore's)
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Kyle Harris on August 17, 2006, 01:15:40 PM
Credit wrongly gave
This morning Kyle started
On some other thread
 ;)
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Brent Hutto on August 17, 2006, 01:35:09 PM
Haiku is an art form invented to give dumb elementary school teachers something to teach. I hate everything about it.

Form can be freeing
Includes the freedom to suck
Moore flowers in midst
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Matt MacIver on August 17, 2006, 02:17:04 PM
I've never played it
It's near top of my wish list
Hope it ranks a 10
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: John Kavanaugh on August 17, 2006, 02:21:15 PM
The course starts off poor
Gets bogged down in the middle
Then finishes worse
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Doug Sobieski on August 17, 2006, 02:48:48 PM
Par 5 strategies
They are very redundant
Many wedge par 3's
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: John Kavanaugh on August 17, 2006, 02:53:32 PM
Tee off 17
Leave my bag or not, back track
Tee off the 18th
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Doug Ralston on August 17, 2006, 04:13:18 PM
In rocky rough
their serpent thirst slakes,
M R snakes!
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Jim_Kennedy on August 17, 2006, 04:20:59 PM
JK, Here's an Irish Haiku, especially for you.  ::)

There once lived an archie named Strantz,
'Paved' the Road when offered the chance,
Some are glad that he chose it
while others say "Doze it",
I'm just happy it isn't in France.
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Tommy_Naccarato on August 17, 2006, 04:27:28 PM
John,
This is all wrong, all wrong.

This isn't Haiku Tuesdays..... (One of my all-time favorite posts!)
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Mike_Cirba on August 17, 2006, 05:09:42 PM
Ahhh Haiku Tuesdays
Sentimentally recall
rosy days long passed  :'(
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: RJ_Daley on August 17, 2006, 08:12:14 PM
Whimsical golf course
Strantz and Fezler together
Strantz left too early
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Tim Bert on August 17, 2006, 08:26:13 PM
Never played the course
I guess John doesn't like it
Sounds like a critic
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Mike_Cirba on August 18, 2006, 08:51:08 AM
Tim Bert is right on
What's next?  Kavanaugh rating?!
I bet he wants comps.  ;)
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: James Edwards on August 18, 2006, 09:11:47 AM
Great Thread! ???
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: T_MacWood on August 18, 2006, 10:04:08 AM


Crusty's nether world
Micheal's intredpid next world
Both heaven and hell

I've got one on Nantucket I'll be sharing later.
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Mike_Cirba on August 18, 2006, 10:24:01 PM
Have yet to play it
Is it better than Pinehurst
1, 4, 7, & 8?
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: T_MacWood on August 18, 2006, 11:11:43 PM


Nantucket, how good?
Picturesque old isle of wind
Rees Jones really blows

Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: T_MacWood on August 18, 2006, 11:13:01 PM


Opinion of TR?
1 + 4 + 7 + 8
Still not the equal
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Jordan Wall on August 19, 2006, 12:38:13 AM



Folks crazy over this Road
Now I'll make more more folks more crazy.  Because
Sandpines is still rated higher
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: ForkaB on August 19, 2006, 01:26:33 AM
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;  
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Matt_Cohn on August 19, 2006, 02:17:26 AM
Ah, Tobacco Road.
Some say it's close to perfect.
But it's far from me.

:(
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Mark Bourgeois on August 19, 2006, 08:13:00 AM
For raters,
The Road less travelled.
Strantz made all the difference.
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Tim Gavrich on August 19, 2006, 01:34:10 PM
Strantz the late Artist
Fashioned the Road to prompt our
Different opinions
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Kyle Harris on August 19, 2006, 01:36:15 PM
Jordan won't get it
Number of syllables wrong
Try it again, son
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Tony_Muldoon on August 19, 2006, 03:31:51 PM
Jordan may be wrong
but what is Goodale doing
quoting Ezra Pound?
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Jordan Wall on August 19, 2006, 09:50:15 PM



I will do it right
But you know the real truth
Kyle is Jealous

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: ForkaB on August 20, 2006, 12:42:51 PM
Jordan may be wrong
but what is Goodale doing
quoting Ezra Pound?

Like the 16-year cicada
Pound knew no rules.
Function trumps form--always
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Tim Bert on August 20, 2006, 05:41:50 PM
Jordan was confused
I guess they no longer teach
Haiku in high school
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Jordan Wall on August 20, 2006, 06:11:09 PM


Yes I know how to
Write a decent Haiku and
Kyle's still jealous
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Paul Payne on August 20, 2006, 07:41:33 PM
Jordan.

Haiku starts with five
Flows smoothly into seven
Retreats back to five
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: cary lichtenstein on August 20, 2006, 07:50:51 PM
The Magazines rate Tobacco Road
Like a dead Toad
Nowhere in Sight
Like it was Architecture Light
But if the truth be told
The Architect is Bold
And rather than pale
It is off the scale
So give it a cheer
so everyone can hear
It's a course that everyone should hold dear
Title: Re:Tobacco Road Haiku's..
Post by: Jay Flemma on August 21, 2006, 07:01:13 AM
Yeah Cary!  

Mike and Heidi Strantz
Dana and andrea too
Nicest family

Tobacco road rules
fire up the big lear jet
next up, black mesa!

Viva eddie peck
spann visited tobacco
now we have two gems!