"BTW, the only real justification you have exposed in defending your crusade is the Pride and investment spent by club members, whose courses are in fear of being obsolete. Is that the best you got?"
Adam:
Why do you persist in making such a fool of yourself?
Earlier in this thread I cited the following four reasons for my "crusade" (slightly abridged here, for those who actually read before they post), all of which I rank a good bit higher than defending any membership against anything:
1) Many of our finest courses are obsolete (or fast becoming) for major tournament play - and Major championships contested at Merion have long held a bit more cache than those played at Kemper Lakes.
2) FAR MORE IMPORTANTLY, those same classic courses do not play the way they were intended for most players of reasonably competent ball-striking ability. Well-designed holes are built to offer advantages/disadvantages from various distances and angles. When we throw off the distances, we materially alter the equation of how these holes play -- and very, very seldom for the better.
3) Today's records mean virtually nothing. We can no longer compare modern achievements with old ones in any meaningful fashion.
4) The game is too damned expensive!! One cannot compete in even a friendly weekend game without today's vastly more expensive equipment -- and that's not even getting into the increased land/maintenance/property tax costs that this technology mandates.
Later, Pat Mucci added the diminution of shotmaking and I strongly supported that "justification" as well.
Now you may disagree with these, you may value your technology-enhanced improvement above them or perhaps you just don't understand them very well in the first place. But for goodness sake, if you're going to post on here, at least pay SOME attention to what's going on on the thread before making such thoroughly ludicrous statements.
If you're grasping so little of what's going on here, perhaps there are better ways to be spending your time?
