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John Kavanaugh

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Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« on: October 11, 2012, 10:40:49 AM »
I've never seen either in person but have become obsessed that both are highly overrated sea animals.  What am I missing?  Take away the ocean and you have a Fazio vs a cow.  It could go without saying that I love Fazio's and Steak.  The basis for my current opinion lies in the following two events.

The Alan Shipnuck twitter feed of "The Match".

https://twitter.com/AlanShipnuck 

and the outrage over a woman who rode a manatee

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/03/14200029-woman-rides-wild-manatee-in-florida-turns-herself-in?lite

JESII

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Re: Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2012, 11:14:53 AM »
I can confirm that the Manatee is pretty underwhelming...a real head scratcher.

I'd be surprised if Cypress Point can hold a candle to it...

astavrides

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Re: Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2012, 11:17:43 AM »

John Kavanaugh

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Re: Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2012, 11:24:33 AM »
Exactly, we are taught that we are to love both the manatee and Cypress Point but never told why.

Bill_McBride

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Re: Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2012, 11:52:59 AM »
I would rather play Cypress Point than swim with a manatee. 

JMEvensky

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Re: Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2012, 11:59:25 AM »

I would rather play Cypress Point than swim with a manatee. 


How many times have you played CPC?

How many times have you swum?swam?swimmed? with a manatee?

Pat Mucci

Peter Pallotta

Re: Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2012, 01:03:21 PM »
I rode a manatee once, but it was while dressed as Lana Turner from "The Postman Always Rings Twice", so I'm not sure that counts.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2012, 01:13:57 PM by PPallotta »

Sven Nilsen

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Re: Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2012, 01:50:24 PM »
There's a corollary in here somewhere between drunken motor boaters and vodka infused posters on GCA being a danger to each.
"As much as we have learned about the history of golf architecture in the last ten plus years, I'm convinced we have only scratched the surface."  A GCA Poster

"There's the golf hole; play it any way you please." Donald Ross

Sam Morrow

Re: Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2012, 03:32:52 PM »
Manatee is a literal sense or for purposes of slump busting?

Tony_Muldoon

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Re: Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2012, 05:59:24 PM »
I rode a manatee once, but it was while dressed as Lana Turner from "The Postman Always Rings Twice", so I'm not sure that counts.

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Peter for once I have to ask you to clarify a point.
Was it you or the manatee dressed as Lana Turner?
Let's make GCA grate again!

Matthew Mollica

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Re: Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2012, 06:37:48 PM »
John, do you always base assessments of unseen courses on someone else's Twitter feeds?

Matthew
"The truth about golf courses has a slightly different expression for every golfer. Which of them, one might ask, is without the most definitive convictions concerning the merits or deficiencies of the links he plays over? Freedom of criticism is one of the last privileges he is likely to forgo."

cary lichtenstein

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Re: Cypress Point vs The Manatee
« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2012, 04:44:14 PM »
Mother Nature screwed up with the design of the Manatee...f*&king ugly
Live Jupiter, Fl, was  4 handicap, played top 100 US, top 75 World. Great memories, no longer play, 4 back surgeries. I don't miss a lot of things about golf, life is simpler with out it. I miss my 60 degree wedge shots, don't miss nasty weather, icing, back spasms. Last course I played was Augusta