"Tom P - I would love to hear more about the work done to the course, and work still to be done. David Brookreson was one of our four on the day I played. I think you know him? Sounds like he has a formidable golf CV."
Philip:
I'll try to do it and slowly, little by little starting at the first and going forward.
Yes, I sure do know David Brookreson. In my era in tournament play he (everybody calls him Brooky) was one of the handful of big guns around here (and he beat me a lot more often than I beat him). We played a lot of stuff against one another over the years. He's a great guy on the course and off. His advice and opinion on most things is sort of like his golf swing----eg not much superfluousness; short and sweet and to the point.
One time we were playing in something and I was trying to figure out whether I should get married and so we were talking about it on the course. I guess I was thinking about and talking about things he thought were unnecessary and too much and so he just turns to me and says: "Look, do you love her or not?" I said; "Yeah, I love her" and he said: "That's all you need to know", end of discussion and end of story!
By the way, Brooky has a great wife and family. His wife, Donna (sp? but pronounced "DOH-NA"), was one of the real supporter wives out on the tournament circuit. She was out there on the course with him and with us more often than not in those tournaments.