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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Padraig Dooley on October 16, 2007, 05:40:04 PM
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How would you define a purist as related to GCA?
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1. If they volunteer that they are a purist, they're probably not one.
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Corollary: Given premise 1. there are no purists.
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Sounds like Catch 22.
If you have to ask for it, you're not qualified.
I've been called a purist on a number of occasions, usually derisively. My transgressions were playing the ball down in spotty conditions, and expecting people to play by most of the rules, most of the time.
I'm no purist, but then the folks who called me that aren't what I'd call golfers. One of them recently shot 20-year best round of 69 and had to note that "I never moved the ball, either."
Ken
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purist
noun
believer in traditional standards: somebody who insists on maintaining something in its traditional form
Here is a definition from a dictionary. Seems like a reasonable ideal, but as Ken has mentioned the term is usually used disparaginlgy.
But are all traditions worth upholding?
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Yesterday i received a call from Mr Moore bragging about how he hit 7 iron into a 445 yard 18th hole. That Persimmon driver has not seen the light of day since before Ran quietly put away his hickories.
The purist movement on GCA has passed.
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When you hit a guttie, and realize what the game is all about.
Of course, this must be hit with a hickory!