Rich Goodale's Architectural Evolution of Dornoch

[Dan Kelly]

Tom MacWood --

You write: "[Y]ou have to admit Rich is consistent in his inconsistency - the definition of a truly great contrarian."

I beg to differ. A truly great contrarian is inconsistent in his consistency.

Do I need to put a smiley face here?

Tom IV --

In reply to Rich's wisecrack about how writing this piece about Royal Dornoch took him a full 4-hour Clorox work week, you wrote: "Four hours is a full week?  Damn, I've been doing way too much OT putting in 6 all these years...."

It may amuse you to know that I read "OT putting" to rhyme not with "OT footing" -- as you likely intended -- but with "OT cutting."

Freudian slip, perhaps? (I'm still trying to figure out the deeper meaning, if any, of that "6.")

I pictured you -- which is quite impossible, because I've never laid eyes on you -- rolling putts down some long, industrially carpeted (as slick as a downhiller on the 8th at Pebble!) hallway, late at night, in the bowels of the otherwise-deserted Clorox World Headquarters, muttering under your breath about that lucky SOB Rich Goodale and his lousy no-good membership at Royal Dornoch.

 

[THuckaby2]

Dan Kelly - though that was surely a freudian post, you seem to know me FAR too well - the only error is I don't spend many late nights here!  The putting and cursing occurs in my office during normal business hours.... And as for the "6", maybe that represents the evil of it all?

 

TH

[Jeremy Glenn. (Guest)]

Rich,

Fantastic piece.

When I was planning my trip to Scotland last year, Dornoch was not inititaly on my route.  However, I give full credit to the members of GCA for pulling me in that direction, and Dornoch has become my favorite piece of land, and truly a fascinating golf course.  Frustrating at first, which only makes you want to come back again and again to figure the thing out.  Standing on the 18th tee, and taking a "moment" at sundown overlooking the entire property and the North Sea is a memory etched in my mind.

One day, I will return...

[Richard_Goodale]

Jeremy

Let me know when you do and we'll go out at 9:00PM some summer evening and I'll show you the Reverse Course......

Rich