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Jeff Doerr

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #25 on: May 19, 2007, 03:41:57 PM »
Tommy,

Is Marshall Canyon still going in SoCal? I played there a lot in grad school. Great Waffle House fun! It is a bit off the beaten track, but it was a great choice when I lived in Glendora.
"And so," (concluded the Oldest Member), "you see that golf can be of
the greatest practical assistance to a man in Life's struggle.”

Kalen Braley

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #26 on: May 19, 2007, 03:55:12 PM »
Mike,

If you want a mans size sauce, then you need to upgrade to at least this.  I have a bottle in my fridge, and 1 small drop in my bowl of chili is enough to light it on fire.




Mark Bourgeois

Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #27 on: May 19, 2007, 06:40:30 PM »
Tommy, would Joe Lee count as Waffle House? Or McD's?

"Grandpa Chip" / Mike:

Bring it, Methusalah, throwing your old war medals in the river is gettin' bo-ring.

By 8 pound, 6 ounce baby Jesus himself, chew on these links:

Holy Toledo! http://tinyurl.com/2jns2z

http://tinyurl.com/2pu37p

Last time I checked, Huddle House wasn't in Scranton, PA!

paul cowley

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #28 on: May 19, 2007, 07:11:42 PM »
Kalen.....I've got a bottle of Dave's in my fridge right now.....a present of my boys ......about 4 yrs ago.

Hot stuff indeed!
paul cowley...golf course architect/asgca

Jesse Jones

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #29 on: May 19, 2007, 07:13:51 PM »
Kalen,

The Insanity Sauce is too friggin hot.
But I love it!!!
A guy at work grabbed a bottle of Tiger Sauce to heat up his soup.
Oh I'm sorry, that was Insanity Sauce.
Big mistake.
Two minuets later his face was as red as the head of a match.
He was in tears.
We got him to drink a pint of milk and everything was O.K. after a few minuets.
If you see the Insanity Sauce, be careful. Very careful.

Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #30 on: May 19, 2007, 07:17:44 PM »
Jeff,
Marshall Canyon is PURE Waffle House! In fact, you sport of spoiled a future post because I wanted to get out there again soon on a good picture day and get some quality shots. (pictures)

Marshall Canyon is a pretty fun place to play golf, at least for me it is.

Joe Lee should have been considered as a Chapter President for The American Society of Waffle House Golf Course Architects.

Mark Bourgeois

Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #31 on: May 19, 2007, 07:25:32 PM »
There was a time I swear when every reference to Joe Lee I read was prefaced by "cigar-chomping," as in "cigar-chomping Joe Lee."

You know, like "Panamanian strongman" Manuel Noriega.

Kalen Braley

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #32 on: May 19, 2007, 10:09:10 PM »
I think Robert Muir Graves work would fit this category.  Can't think of any great courses he has done, but has done some very decent and solid stuff all over the west coast...

Scott Weersing

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #33 on: May 20, 2007, 01:41:05 AM »
Some of RMG's work might fit this category but he designed one of my favorite courses, La Purisima Golf Course in Lompoc.

La Purisima is not Waffle House because you would drive out of your way to play it. I drive 80 minutes from Ventura to play it. I love the course and wish there were more like it because there are no houses near it and it has an amazing routing.

Here are two articles on La Purisima, http://www.golfdigest.com/courses/critic/index.ssf?/courses/critic/purisima.html

and some of Aidan's photos: http://www.golfcoursephotography.com/results.asp?KW=La//Purisima


corey miller

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #34 on: May 20, 2007, 07:23:45 AM »


Based on your description Tommy N I would nominate Ken Dye for the Mcdonalds of restoration specialists.  In the Metro NYC area:

1. His quality stinks.
2. His plans appeal to the lowest common denominator among the membership.
3. The meal is the same regardless of if it is a Tille,Travis,Macdonald,Banks or if it is served in Scarborough NY or Essex County NJ.
4  One of his selling points is his overcaloried "tillie  WF look" which is a flashed up mess with over collagened Pam Anderson lips.
5  Disregard of classic cooking techniques re:his reccomendation on a reverse redan to "build a berm so poorly hit tee shots don't roll on"
6 I know Mcdonalds business plan is to get business through bribing kids with toys, I am still trying to figure out Mr. Dye's, though I know it is not through the quality of his work. could there be any area within in club that could possibly be pre-disposed to working with Dye?
7.Regardless of the reviews of some, and the work being quickly modified in other areas, he still keeps busy.


Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #35 on: May 20, 2007, 11:21:23 AM »
Mr. Millah, (New York pronunciation of Miller)
Now who would be the Waffle House Architect of NuYark?

Mike_Cirba

Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #36 on: May 20, 2007, 11:56:00 AM »
Mike,

If you want a mans size sauce, then you need to upgrade to at least this.  I have a bottle in my fridge, and 1 small drop in my bowl of chili is enough to light it on fire.


Kalen,

Yes, I have a bottle of Dave's, as well, which probably qualifies as the hottest thing on the planet this side of enriched uranium.   Legend tells that when it was first introduced at the San Antonio Spicy Food Festival, it was disqualified as the head judge went into convulsions while hyperventilating.  

In pure capscium ratings, if Tabasco is a 5, Dave's would be 5 billion.   I don't know how it doesn't melt the bottle.

Mark,

Yes, there are actually 2 Waffle Houses in Scranton, PA...at least in the adjacent burbs.   One in Taylor and one in Clarks Summit.   But, like Pizza joints in Atlanta, or Cheesesteak shops in Salt Lake City, they aren't authentic in the least and you don't get the same homespun flavor that you do in the one, say, that we stopped at on the drive from Atlanta to Augusta.  

Tommy,

In eastern PA, I'd certainly nominate Jim Blaukovitch as the Waffle House brand of choice.

He has built any number of reasonably priced public courses that are architecturally filling to some extent, that the masses can afford, and that are pretty recognizable one to another once you get the sense of his "style".   He also wouldn't know a souffle from scrambled egges architecturally, and the work of his I've seen on renovations and restorations stands out like a badly swollen thumb.   However, doing what he does on his original designs, he fills a large, valid niche quite well.




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Kalen Braley

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #37 on: May 20, 2007, 02:20:49 PM »
Hy Mike,

The insane thing is that Daves ultimate is just entry level for massively hot, hot sauces.

Look at this list:
http://www.chez-williams.com/Hot%20Sauce/hothome.htm

Daves is way down at the bottom at 250,000 scoville units.  The nasty ones are way up in the tens of millions....crazy stuff.   :-X :-X

As for Tobasco sauce, it comes in at a measly 2500 scoville units...childs play...   ;D
« Last Edit: May 20, 2007, 02:22:21 PM by Kalen Braley »

Chris Cupit

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #38 on: May 20, 2007, 07:42:27 PM »
From "Gentleman Joe Lee" by Ron Whitten:

"Joe Lee has never built a bad golf course," Jack Nicklaus once told me...."Of course, he's never built a great course, either.  But he's never built a bad one."

As a Waffle House fan, I'd say more WH than McD's.  I've had some bad McD's but never a bad WH (of course, a good percentage of the customers at WH are way too drunk to taste anything...but, from what I remember, it always hits the spot!)

Andy Hodson

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #39 on: May 24, 2007, 02:49:33 PM »
Here in the Gulf Coastal region of Texas, I'd say Jay Riviere qualifies as the WH of designers.

Dan Herrmann

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #40 on: May 24, 2007, 02:58:04 PM »
Ault, Clark and Associates?

Jason Blasberg

Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #41 on: May 27, 2007, 07:13:10 AM »
What is it about Waffle House?

T,

You must have been to Eatonton/Madison lately?

JKB  


Mike_Young

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #42 on: May 27, 2007, 07:18:48 AM »
What is it about Waffle House?

T,

You must have been to Eatonton/Madison lately?

JKB  


Jason,
As you know Madison has 2 waffle houses...one on each side of the interstate....and you will be glad to know the one on the soiuth side has just had a new building built......but still doesn't take reservations except for one particular californian.....
"just standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona"

Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #43 on: May 27, 2007, 11:42:49 AM »
Jason,
My pull throughout the Peach State is pretty good. Let me know if you need a table....

Haven't been back since December, but hopefully soon. Dying for some Pulled Pork.

Dan Herrmann

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #44 on: May 27, 2007, 04:14:21 PM »
Pennsylvania has been invaded.  We now have a Waffle House and a Sonic about 15 miles from each other up here in Morgantown (PA).

Maybe the South did win ;)

Jason Blasberg

Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #45 on: May 28, 2007, 09:40:28 AM »
Haven't been back since December, but hopefully soon. Dying for some Pulled Pork.

Perhaps we'll see you for the Dixie Cup?  

Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #46 on: May 28, 2007, 12:17:43 PM »
There is a possibility...

TEPaul

Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #47 on: May 28, 2007, 01:00:52 PM »
There's a lot I love about Georgia but they can keep their pulled pork as far as I'm concerned. They will never accuse me of being rude for trying to share their grits with them either.

Last time I went to a Waffle House with MikeY the waitress asked me if I wanted grits and I said of course I did but I'd like to have the salt and pepper and butter and she could hold the grits.

I'm like Joe Pesci in that I may be the only other guy in history who actually tried to eat only a single grit.
« Last Edit: May 28, 2007, 01:02:16 PM by TEPaul »

Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #48 on: May 28, 2007, 03:48:06 PM »
Tom Paul,
In the Grit-eating world, your no Ty Cobb.

Thankfully you didn't ask for your grits with sugar in them. I'm still trying to figure that one out...

RJ_Daley

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Re:Waffle House-like Golf Course Architects
« Reply #49 on: May 28, 2007, 04:48:03 PM »
This 8 scene play should be all you need to know on the true grits subject... ;)

http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Season8/grits/true_grit_trans.htm
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