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Punchbowl

Golf in North Korea
« on: December 06, 2007, 11:58:38 AM »
Thought you might be interested in some unique golf course design in Pyongyang.
http://debrisson.free.fr/images/dprk/golf.jpg

I am not sure how to upload the actual image to this thread...but the link is above.
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john_stiles

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Re:Golf in North Korea
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2007, 12:05:54 PM »
Those golf holes look so easy, bet you could score a lot of hole-in-ones there  :o    K Jong is like a plus 18.

All that aside, that is one of the saddest places in the world to have a golf course.
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Tim Gavrich

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Re:Golf in North Korea
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2007, 01:00:27 PM »
Most exclusive course in the world?
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Pete Lavallee

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Re:Golf in North Korea
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2007, 08:26:51 PM »
It shouldn't be long before Wayne Morrison comes to the thread railing against the engineered look of the green center right and the doughnut green in the upper right. ;)
« Last Edit: December 07, 2007, 01:26:18 PM by Pete Lavallee »
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Paul Stephenson

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Re:Golf in North Korea
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2007, 01:29:25 PM »
Was this the course that inspired the quote

"I can honestly say that I have never played a golf course and thought 'what this hole needs is a moat!'"
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wsmorrison

Re:Golf in North Korea
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2007, 01:30:51 PM »
A long lost Raynor!  Amazing discovery  ;D
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Joel_Stewart

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« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2007, 02:48:02 PM »
Somebody wrote an article for one of the major magazines in the last year about going to North Korea and playing golf there.  Didn't sound like it was worth the trip.
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Dan Kelly

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Re:Golf in North Korea
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2007, 02:50:17 PM »
Quote from: Joel_Stewart on December 07, 2007, 02:48:02 PM
Somebody wrote an article for one of the major magazines in the last year about going to North Korea and playing golf there.  Didn't sound like it was worth the trip.

There's a first for everything.
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Mike_Cirba

Re:Golf in North Korea
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2007, 04:17:20 PM »
Is the back of that one green some type of symbolic homage to their Peerless Leader's hairstyle?  
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paul cowley

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Re:Golf in North Korea
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2007, 07:34:28 PM »
....I'd off their leader in a heartbeat....the idea of golf in a country where the bottom 25% of its inhabitants are basically slave laborers is beyond repulsive....when I first looked at the picture I thought they had people lined up around the holes to stop errant balls.

Dictators have no place in this century.
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Kyle Harris

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« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2007, 07:59:26 PM »
« Last Edit: December 07, 2007, 07:59:45 PM by Kyle Harris »
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astavrides

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« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2007, 07:40:41 AM »
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paul cowley

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Re:Golf in North Korea
« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2007, 07:45:26 AM »
Quote from: astavrides on December 08, 2007, 07:40:41 AM
Quote from: paul cowley on December 07, 2007, 07:34:28 PM
....I'd off their leader in a heartbeat....the idea of golf in a country where the bottom 25% of its inhabitants are basically slave laborers is beyond repulsive

unfortunately, there are probably quite a few countries that fit that description.  some of those countries are more 'prosperous' than others.  

....any dictatorships in this group?
« Last Edit: December 08, 2007, 07:52:00 AM by paul cowley »
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David Stamm

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Re:Golf in North Korea
« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2007, 10:59:32 AM »
Quote from: Pete Lavallee on December 06, 2007, 08:26:51 PM
It shouldn't be long before Wayne Morrison comes to the thread railing against the engineered look of the green center right and the doughnut green in the upper right. ;)


 Pete, if Wayne didn't, I would have. Boy that's bad! :-[
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astavrides

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« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2007, 09:09:46 PM »
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« Last Edit: December 29, 2011, 10:09:40 AM by astavrides »
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David Stamm

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Re:Golf in North Korea
« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2007, 11:03:09 PM »
Quote from: astavrides on December 08, 2007, 09:09:46 PM
Quote from: paul cowley on December 08, 2007, 07:45:26 AM
Quote from: astavrides on December 08, 2007, 07:40:41 AM
Quote from: paul cowley on December 07, 2007, 07:34:28 PM
....I'd off their leader in a heartbeat....the idea of golf in a country where the bottom 25% of its inhabitants are basically slave laborers is beyond repulsive

unfortunately, there are probably quite a few countries that fit that description.  some of those countries are more 'prosperous' than others.  

....any dictatorships in this group?

   right wing, facist, state capitalist regimes can be pretty bad.  some of the labor in southeast asian countries' sweatshops, for example, work ~80 hour weeks at starvation wages and cant really leave those jobs and survive.

Without getting into a political debate, this goes on in non-right wing governments as well.
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astavrides

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« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2007, 08:45:25 AM »
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« Last Edit: December 29, 2011, 10:09:14 AM by astavrides »
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