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Mike_Cirba

Re:When did Golf Club Atlas "jump the shark"?
« Reply #250 on: February 23, 2004, 09:53:31 AM »
Richard "Cabeza";

All humor aside, you're simply shooting fish (shark?) in a barrel.  

Not much sport in that, is there?


THuckaby2

Re:When did Golf Club Atlas "jump the shark"?
« Reply #251 on: February 23, 2004, 10:09:42 AM »
Mike:

Cabeza en espanol means "head."  Make sense now?

And I appreciate your well-reasoned post above.  But yes, if anything was proven by this exercise it is that this place is never going to generate more light than heat.  It's just not in the nature of on-line discussion to do anything but that, as much as we would hope otherwise.

One thing also:  another reason why we don't tend to discuss lesser-known architects and courses is because if one does bring such up, the universe of potential responders is usually very small... that is, only a few people would have seen or heard of them, so the discussion is short.  The big names and historic greats have been seen by all, either in person, in pictures, or on TV, so it is easy to generate a lot of responses about them.  Again, nature of this beast.

For example, I could extol the virtues of George Santana, and what could you say back other than "yeah, sounds like he does great work"?  Same goes for Gary Panks, many of the others you mentioned elsewhere... Pictures can only go so far on this also....

Sorry to be so cynical... but in my mind, this place is what it is and I just don't expect any changes here except the natural evolution of things... And at least for now, what it is still remains pretty great.

TH

Scott_Burroughs

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Re:When did Golf Club Atlas "jump the shark"?
« Reply #252 on: February 23, 2004, 10:10:28 AM »
Now that I have thought about it, I am convinced that Augusta National jumped the Shark twice on Sunday of the Masters in 1996 and 1987.


Jeff F.

Just about the only thing worth reading in this thread.   :P  Don't forget 1986, too.  Shark was tied going into 18 and it jumped him.

Tommy_Naccarato

Re:When did Golf Club Atlas "jump the shark"?
« Reply #253 on: February 23, 2004, 10:42:09 AM »
Mike, for whats it worth, I'm not Richard Cabeza.

This is the first I have been on-line since about 4:30pm yesterday, and I have to tell you the break was nice. Therefore in complete agreement with your assessment of this thread, I'm more then likely going to take another extended absence--your point makes so much sense!