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T_MacWood

Dream Dinner
« on: September 23, 2001, 08:33:00 AM »
If you could dine with five great golf figures, past or present, who would you choose?
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Ran Morrissett

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Dream Dinner
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2001, 04:40:00 AM »
1. Bernard Darwin (or HWW if he was busy)
2. Bob Jones (or Francis Ouimet if he was busy)
3. Charles Blair Macdonald (or George Crump if he was busy)
4. Horace Hutchinson (or Harry Colt if he was busy)
5. Alister MacKenzie (or George Thomas if he was busy))
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aclayman

Dream Dinner
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2001, 05:16:00 AM »
Bob Huntley, Gib Pazarian, Dan King, Pete Galea, Rich Goodale, John Bernhardt and Tom Huckaby.

Been there done that

ok i know its more than five but i'll just eat less

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RobertWalker

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Dream Dinner
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2001, 05:27:00 AM »
Jay Randolph
Ken Venturi
Mike Tirico
Matt Lauer
Bryant Gumbel
Vin Scully
Could it get any better?
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GarySmith

Dream Dinner
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2001, 06:27:00 AM »
Pretty funny, RobertWalker. I was thinking of a reply along the same lines, but you beat me to it. Since you are obviously a big fan of the old NBC announcer crew, don't forget to invite Charlie Jones.

Back to the subject.

Titanic Thompson
Lloyd Mangrum
Tillinghast
George Knudson
Babe Didrickson Zaharias

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Lowdraw

Dream Dinner
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2001, 07:35:00 AM »
Alister Mac, Old Tom Morris, Tom Simpson, Tillie, and....Henry Longhurst.  
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RJ_Daley

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Dream Dinner
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2001, 09:03:00 AM »
Dr. MacKenzie, Tillinghast, Bobby Jones, Marion Hollins, Pete Dye and MC'd by David Feherty with bartender services by Phil Harris if it were to be held on a Saturday evening at a great restaurant-club...

I might pick others if the venue was changed...

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Eric Pevoto

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Dream Dinner
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2001, 09:49:00 AM »
Bobby Jones, A. W. Tillinghast, Robert Hunter, Claude Harmon, and Jackie Burke
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GarySmith

Dream Dinner
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2001, 10:00:00 AM »
Tillie seems to be a popular choice.

Interesting that no one has chosen Hogan yet.

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Tommy_Naccarato

Dream Dinner
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2001, 10:01:00 AM »
I think mine would have to be 5 esteemed guests, not including myself.

They would be:
Robert Mondavi-Winemaker
Alice Waters-Chef/Restauranteur
Dr. Alister-MacKenzie-Man of the World
Bill Kittleman-Man of Millenium
Howard Hughes-Genius

This dinner would of course have Alice cooking, Bobby supplying the wine, while Hughes, Mac, Kittleman, and myself get sloshed talking of how great a gift the game of golf is.

All would also relate how their art or talent relates to one another.

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Slag_Bandoon

Dream Dinner
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2001, 10:33:00 AM »
Eddie Hackett
Dick Daley
Jack Whitaker
Allen Robertson
Bill Murray
Perry Maxwell
Ben Crenshaw
Tom Morris Old and Young  

There, I think that's five.

But I'd have dessert and wine peering over flickering candlelight into Annika's limpid love-struck peepers and be engulfed by her pulchritude and luminosity.

"Golf is a game where you scream 'fore, shoot 6 and write down 5."  (I forget who said it)

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Daniel_Wexler

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« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2001, 10:52:00 AM »
1) Harry Vardon
2) Ben Hogan
3) Walter Hagen
4) Seth Raynor (if George Bahto were unavailable)
5) Henry Longhurst
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George Pazin

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Dream Dinner
« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2001, 01:24:00 PM »
I think I'd have a dinner with Mackenzie & Jones, George Thomas, & Geoff Shackelford.

I'd like to hear first hand what they think of all the alterations to their courses - & I think it would be neat for Geoff to hear it first hand, & not just through communications with those from the other side. :-)

Then I'd have dinner with Tiger. Sorry for being pedestrian, he's the best.

If Tiger couldn't make it, I'd invite Tom Doak to the other dinner.

PS. I thought this thread was actually going to be about dinner at Gil Hanse's house...

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Will E

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Dream Dinner
« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2001, 02:31:00 PM »
Ben Hogan, one of the smartest men to play
Bobby Jones, the greatest gentleman to play
Walter Hagen, he'd add a lot of fun
and for kicks I'd seat
Mac O'Grady next to Dean Beaman
I'd go and get some ice cream after dinner with Moe Norman (he ate at Knudson's)then return to meet the Haig at the bar for a night cap.
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John_McMillan

Dream Dinner
« Reply #14 on: September 23, 2001, 02:51:00 PM »
It's interesting how the previous lists are:  (i) are dominated by men; and (ii) dominated by people whose fame did not come through playing the game.  Matt Lauer as a dinner guest?  I think that's the first time he's ever made one of those lists.

My list -

Annika Sorenstam
Karrie Webb
Marion Hollins
Joyce Wethered
Judy Rankin

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RJ_Daley

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Dream Dinner
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2001, 02:58:00 PM »
All that smoked salmon is having a delirious effect on poor Slag.  Perhaps I could be the waiter at that banquet.  How does it go now... soup spoons on the outside left... knives and forks on the right... gently rotate the bottle when pouring the grape?

Thanks for the compliment Slag. I'll drink up a toast of spicy sweet and plummed to the dregs port, in exaultation of the limpid, twinkling, Scandinavian, pulcritudinous object of your calf eyed lowing.  In the other hand, you best get a grip man, she's married! 8)

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Gene Greco

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Dream Dinner
« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2001, 03:59:00 PM »
John Mc:

You beat me to it! What could be better than dining with beautiful women who love and can play the game?

1. Edith Cummings
2. Jan Stephenson
3. Laura Baugh
4. Annika Storenstam
5. Nancy Lopez

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"...I don't believe it is impossible to build a modern course as good as Pine Valley.  To me, Sand Hills is just as good as Pine Valley..."    TOM DOAK  November 6th, 2010

John Morrissett

Dream Dinner
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2001, 04:12:00 PM »
1. Peter Thomson
2. Walter Travis
3. Ben Hogan
4. Bernard Darwin
5. Bob Jones
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Patrick_Mucci

Dream Dinner
« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2001, 04:44:00 PM »
Tom,

Non-Architectural group A

Frank Hannigan,
David Fay
Eli Callaway
Joe Dey
Richard Tufts
Karsten Solheim
Toney Penna

Group B

Bobby Jones
Sam Snead
Ben Hogan
Byron Nelson
Jack Nicklaus
Arnold Palmer
Gary Player
Lee Trevino

Group C

Tommy Bolt
Walter Hagen
Tom Weiskof
Tony Lema
Tommy Armour
George Low
Titanic Thompson

Group D

Cliff Roberts
Chris Dunphy
Jack Lupton
The Fellow who ran Pine Valley pre Ransome
Hall Thompson
The fellow who created the Golf Club in Ohio
Steve Wynn

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JBergan

Dream Dinner
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2001, 04:57:00 PM »
Mrs. Phil Mickelson
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ed_getka

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Dream Dinner
« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2001, 08:19:00 AM »
Herb Wind (a great guy)
Bernard Darwin
Walter Simpson (his Art of Golf comes closest to capturing the essence of golf IMHO)
Francis Ouimet
David Duval
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"Perimeter-weighted fairways", The best euphemism for containment mounding I've ever heard.

Lou_Duran

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Dream Dinner
« Reply #21 on: September 24, 2001, 08:59:00 AM »
Patrick:

I believe that The Golf Club in New Albany, OH was conceived and founded by Ernest Jones, a Columbus insurance executive.  Reportedly, he got tired of playing behind a bunch of drunk women at Columbus CC and Scioto so he built the course for himself and a select group of friends.  When I played it in 1978, there were some 125 members, all men, and former OSU basketball coach, Fred Taylor, was the GM.  Pete Dye designed it, but I heard that Nicklaus and Weiskopf had some input.  

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T_MacWood

Dream Dinner
« Reply #22 on: September 24, 2001, 02:52:00 AM »
The gentleman who founded The Golf Club was Fred Jones. He was a member of Columbus CC and was frustrated by all the activity at a modern CC which prevented him from playing golf when he wanted. He was frustrated when the automobile dealers assoc. were having a party and he couldn't get on the course, or it was ladies day or junior day or Distict GA was having an junior or senior amateur event, and the course was shut down. The last straw was after the clubhouse burned down -- he was instramamental in having it rebuilt -- the Board of Directors met and someone thought it would be good idea to hold the PGA championship and he was violently opposed to the idea, a fellow smart-ass director told him "if you don't like it, go build your own course." Which he did and according to their byelaws TGC can not hold any outside events.
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TEPaul

Dream Dinner
« Reply #23 on: September 24, 2001, 07:45:00 AM »
I'd like to have dinner with Max Behr and talk golf architectural concept. If Max wanted to bring Robert Hunter along with him that would be fine and who knows where the conversation may lead?!
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John Bernhardt

Dream Dinner
« Reply #24 on: September 24, 2001, 08:00:00 PM »
Adam, A great group of gentlemen indeed. Lets do it again soon.
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