Wayne,
I stand by everything I said in the post above. It is accurate as far as I know, and you have written nothing that changes any of it. All of the listed misrepresentations and omissions were made on the website. I havent seen your book. You posted about leaving important M&W material out of early version. The misrepresentions regarding the sketches? The website. It is all from the website.
As for the gossip you have spread about Tom MacWood, you miss the point entirely. I don't give a damn what you think happened at Garden City. It is none of my business and none of your business. Besides, you weren't even there. But most importantly, using this type of gossip to try and trash someone's reputation on this website is beyond low, it is downright despicable. You can't win an argument on the merits so you try to trash the guys reputation on a public website? What kind of a man are you?
Same goes for the garbage you spread about my supposed snail's pace of play and my clogging up the course all day. What kind of a man spreads nasty rumors about someone just because of some unrelated disagreement? And you readily admit trying to trash my reputation, but call me a liar because I understate how hard you worked at trashing my reputation? Classy.
As for the "gentleman" who supposedly stands by the story, I'd be glad to politely discuss it with him. But given that he is yet another of your mystery sources, I don't have that opportunity, do I? Wayne Morrison making a claim he is unwilling to back up? Gee, what a surprise.
Not that it is any of your business, but anyone who has walked with me regularly on any golf course would find your gossip about my snail's pace of play absolutely preposterous. I may not be good, but I am by no means slow. And I would just as soon pick up my ball on every hole before I would clog up a course at which I was a guest. For you to claim otherwise based on third-hand gossip is absolutely outrageous.
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But you pretty much said it all when you justify spreading false and malicious gossip about me and MacWood based on your conclusion that we do not deserve your respect or concern: "You merit no respect or concern."
So your personal code of behavior is admittedly subjective and circumstantial, and therefore entirely hypocritical. I guess that explains why many still think so highly of you. They just haven't had occasion to disagree with you yet.
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TEPaul, As much has you wrote about that correspondence over the years, and you hadn't bothered to read it? I told you guys long ago that you could figure out Wilson's whereabouts by those letters. If you waited until the eve of my essay to even look at them then my comments about your mishandling of the source material applies still. What kind of an expert has this info and doesn't bother to look at it?
As for your going into this gossipy garbage about MacWood, see my comments above.