GAA-12 Steps To A Better Golf Life....

[Tommy_Naccarato]

After trying to comprehend just a bit of the Pittsburgh School of Golf thread, I'm inclined to believe that many of us are prime candidates to start Golf Architecture Anonymous, aka GAA.

We're going to need to write an actual 12 Steps to Architectural Recovery both from green committees and, especially ourselves. We have to remember the problem all starts with our own homes.

And remember this: The first step to recovery is realizing that you are powerless; therfore in need of a 12 step program to live the lives you were meant to lead.....

Guys, what is it going to take for some positive influence in each of our personal lives to come out of this discussion group?

[Joe Hancock]

Tommy,

If one has yet to become delusional enough to think they can make a living from this crazy game, they are not ready to delve into a recovery program. Having said that....

Step 1: Disavow any and all need for a computer in your life. If your job requires a computer, quit your job. If your wife insists on having a computer at home, leave your wife. If that isn't enough, become a missionary in Papua New Guinea.

Joe

[T_MacWood]

"And remember this: The first step to recovery is realizing that you are powerless; therfore in need of a 12 step program to live the lives you were meant to lead....."

I'll drink to that.

"After trying to comprehend just a bit of the Pittsburgh School of Golf thread, I'm inclined to believe that many of us are prime candidates to start Golf Architecture Anonymous, aka GAA."

Where did you first read about the Pittsburgh School?

When you finally are able to comprehend the Penn School thread immediately turn your attention to all 11 pages of the A&C thread and report back to me your findings.

[cary lichtenstein]

Step 2:

Realize that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and respect them for that.

Realize that you are not really that much smarter than the guy you disagree with.

Realize that your problems are small if all you do is stay on this website.

[Jim Thompson]

How 'bout this-

1.      We admitted we were powerless over golf course architecture — that our lives had become unmanageable.
 
2.      Came to believe that an architect greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
 
3.      Made a decision to turn our designs and our courses over to the care of a supreme architect as we understand him to be.

4.      Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, our features and our landscapes.
 
5.      Admitted to the supreme architect, to ourselves and to other human beings the exact nature of our wrong assumptions of bunkering, routing, green complexes and quirk.

6.      We're entirely ready to have professional architects remove all these defects of design and belief.
 
7.      Humbly asked the supreme architect to remove our shortcomings and overly penal features.

8.      Made a list of all golfers we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9.      Made direct amends to such golfers wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10.  Continued to take personal inventory of our courses and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11.  Sought through study and contemplation to improve our conscious contact with the supreme architect as we understand him to be, seeking only for knowledge of his will for us to score and the skill to carry that out.  

12.  Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to golf architecture addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

JT

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Jim,
Perfect. Don't change a thing. In fact, I'm going to try to have Ran post it as a sidebar.

Tom Mac,
Absolutely, abstinence starts at complete admittance. Lets drink to it!

Cary,
I see your struggling with your program. Just for today, "Take it Easy," "Thumb's Up" and "EZ Does It!" Work the tools. You'll always be an Architecture Addict. Learn to live it in moderation.