The PGA Merchandise Show is January 26-29.  In past years there has been sizable attendance from the GCA crowd, who is planning to attend this year and is there any interest in a meet and greet? I will volunteer to make arrangements this year if there is adequate interest.

B 2 B v. mano e mano ?

yesterday it was supers vs. architects.
now i guess it's pros vs. supers and (owners)?
If I go to both what does that make me?


answer-out of the northeast

JK,

please, tell us what you really feel.

But in order to be a hypocrite, don't you have to make a strong statement in the first place?

Sure, for those who claim to be lovers of architecture first and foremost, then the PGA show is not the place for them.

But, in as much as I consider myself a student of the game, and an appreciator of great architecture, I am first and foremost, a golfer.

Thus, equipment is an important part of the game for me - had I gone to the PGA show, I would not be a hypocrite, because I never pretended to be primarily an architecture student.

Michael,

Last year a large number of people had the choice to go either to the PGA or the GCSAA show. (People who come on this site and claim they study architecture)  I just feel that if you choose to look at the latest and greatest clubs being manufactured instead of how golf courses are built and maintained and then come on this site and spout this and that you are an architectural poser.   Of course if you are like Ryan and admit you are not primarily into architecture then you are neither a poser or a hypocrite.  Please note that as far as I can remember you have neither spouted this or that and should in no way take offense to my above statements.

Is entry into the PGA show free...I know getting into the GCSAA show cost me over a hundred bucks.

Brian,

Have you ever come out against the lengthening of a classic course...If you have and you support the equipment manufacturers in preference to the supers you are indeed a hypocrite.  Sorry...If you rate architecture for a magazine and choose to support the equipment manufacturers over the supers you are most likely both a hypocrite and my friend.  After giving this much thought I am of the opinion that anyone who goes to the PGA merchandise show simply is more in love with themselves than the game.  It would be a better world if nobody bought a new club next year.

Since when did it become a sin to have an interest in architecture and equipment..kind of like saying you can't desire to bed blondes and brunettes...or am I missing something here??

Redheads.

I will actually answer the original question.  I hope to be down there.  And might be interested in getting a bite to eat maybe Thurs night, as long as it isnt the same place we went last year.

Sorry Brian but you may have forgot the following to Mr. Simper himself..It was Oct 3 2005 on a ball to far thread.

Come on Simper you know you enjoy hitting the ball to FAR.

Me on the other hand I do not think I hit it to far. Just not straight enough and if it was straighter it may be i do not know. I make it interesting besides the lengh.I do hit the ball pretty long though but not in the 350 range. I would say I am in the group of 290 - 315 and the rare huge one at 330 - 340.
If it gets any longer it will start to be come a problem I think.
for most of the general public corses to make them interesting. it is fun every now and then to hit wedges into every hole but not every week.

John K,

as usual, you're out of touch. There is no GCSAA Show anymore. Starting in 2005 with the Orlando meeting, it's now a combined Golf Industry Show (and called GIS), co-sponsored by the GCSAA, ASGCA, Golf Course Builders Association of America, the National Golf Course Owners Association, and to include the Club Managers Association of America in 2007.

That materially enhances your argument (I hate to concede that) but you deserve a slap upside the head for your faux pas.

I also think if you really care about golf and golf courses you'll attend both meetings, as awful a place as Atlanta is in Feb. (or any other time of the year). Besides, if you're there, you can take my four-hour writing seminar and learn, among other things, how to compose better posts.

I ask myself the same thing, John: "how can I forget?" meeting you. I'm still trying.

I think of the PGA Show as "offense" and the GIS Show as "defense." Golf resides in the dialectic between these two organic principles. I love seeing the hype, the promise, the business and the technology of equipment (I am not so big on the apparel part, personally). Then a week or two later I like to see how the ground is being defended.