Architecture and (im)Morality

[Marty Bonnar]

A test of character...

So, the guy calls you and wants to discuss developing a Course. He's got mega-$$$'s, a PHENOMENAL piece of land and his wife just loves the colour and cut of those cool golf clothes.

You arrange to meet him, but firstly, do a quick Google on the guy. Turns out he's either 'connected', done 'Bird', is in a Witness Protection Programme or is 'generally, a 'bad' sort.

Do YOU still go through with the project? Do YOU even go meet him? Are you worried that one of those 'buried elephants' in the Greens, might actually turn out to be a 'buried golf course archie'?

Where would YOU draw the line?

Shirley, there's been lots of 'dodgy' sorts associated with course development in the past/present? Didn't the 'Golden Age' itself co-incide with a time of rampant Gangster-ism? Which courses were built on the proceeds of prohibition, prostitution and racketeering?

FBD.

PS Residents of Chicago are excused from having to participate in this thread...

[Mike Hendren]

Drummer-Boy,

In a business context, I've always defined character as a person's willingness to honor his obligations.  Too often we are more concerned with their capacity to do so.

Beyond that, it is not a man's place to judge another man but you will get fleas if you lay down with dogs.

Also, a fox might be willing to sign a contract to behave during his visit to the chicken coop, but once inside feathers will fly.  NEVER let a fox in a henhouse.

Mike

[PThomas]

maybe THAT's where Jimmy Hoffa is buried...in some golf green somewhere!

and I got a chuckle out of your last line Martin...when you do come to CHi-town me and my friends will have a fine welcome waiting for you

[John_Cullum]

A very fine gentleman named Henry Garwes once told me his grandfather taught him "You can't do good business with bad people."

Since the day I heard that lesson, it has never been wrong.

[GDStudio]

Ok, Who told you Martin?  

[Michael Dugger]

If I am me, I build it.

But I am a nobody with nothing to loose.