I've been reading, and enjoying, Martin's posts for months now. He is the king of the tortured and nearly indecipherable analogy. How he manages to pull them off with such aplomb is beyond me. If he designed courses, they'd be ALL quirk - but he'd still have golfers lining up to pay a fortune to play them. I'd bet his quixotic ways would work very well in the screwy, made-up world of high finance. If his picture didn't strike me as that of a full-grown man, I'd think him an elf, or some such thing.
Woody Austin, on the other hand, is not an elf. God bless him, I'm a big fan of Woody's, but aplomb isn’t his style. He seems like a fine golfer and good man, one who'd never hurt anyone but himself. But he's probably right in thinking the quirky, quixotic, and tortured analogy that is links golf beyond him.
Peter
This post is nearly worthless, of course, except as a chance to compliment Martin on his always enjoyable posts. I'm not even sure he's talking about Woody Austin. The joke, then, would be on me. I'm also NOT an elf.