Darwinism - I (The Course Your Soul Loves Best)

[ForkaB]

Tom

When you say....

"Maybe it was a lot more than golf and architecture too--it was the moment!"

...I think you describe falling in love......

And, love is a very personal thing, which is why we all have different home "courses," for different reasons.

From what everyone (including Gene) has told me about Sand Hills, I can see why he has fallen in love with the place.  Of course, this doesn't mean, I assume, that he doesn't still shackup with NGLA and Cypress from time to time too, and might even give wee Mallow a good romp in the hay if and when he got to see her.........

[TEPaul]

You think I might be describing falling in love--do you Rich?

Could be, could be, maybe so!

However, no matter how much that might be falling in love I hope I don't feel like taking Mallow or any other golf course to bed with me and having a romp in the hay.

Pat Mucci, on the other hand, even by his own admission, thinks about this type of thing--who knows, he may have done it a time or two.

[Dan Kelly]

I don't feel like taking Mallow or any other golf course to bed with me and having a romp in the hay.

Pat Mucci, on the other hand, even by his own admission, thinks about this type of thing--who knows, he may have done it a time or two.

Maybe that's what got him thinking about double greens!  

[TEPaul]

Could be, Dan--it could be.

And maybe that's why recently Pat's had trouble getting it in the.....

Never mind!

[THuckaby2]

Hmmm... falling in love is a good way to put it.

But not fair in the case of Sand Hills.

Methinks if it were open and playable year round and if it were not so remote (ie make it practical) Gene and the others who love it like Dan K. and myself would never need to look elsewhere.  All of us want to play different courses - ie romp around - but if there is one course that could keep us happy forever, this is it.

Unfortunately Sand Hills is where it is, the weather is what it is, and Gene lives where he does.  

Thus it's natural to wander!

And further, Sand Hills isn't a wife, but more like a damn fine mistress!

TH

[Dan Kelly]

Sand Hills isn't a wife, but more like a damn fine mistress!

I wouldn't know about that.  

[THuckaby2]

Obviously Dan, it's just how I would imagine things...  

TH

[TEPaul]

You see, that's why America is still an uncivilized outpost. In the super sophisticated aristocracies of old Europe the man had the wife and he had the mistress and often the wife and the mistress were better friends than either one was to the man.

We've stiil got a ways to go to get there.

Matter of fact, the man probably wasn't all that attached to either the wife or the mistress since it wasn't uncommon for him to be completely in love with his golf course!

We've got a long way to go to get there. It's called Darwinianism--the survival of the most loving soul and the fittest golf course in true atonement!

[THuckaby2]

Consider me a convert, TEP.  Do we have a flag?  A motto?

TH

[TEPaul]

No motto yet. That's Dan Kelly's bailiwick--he's the wordsmith.

[Mike Benham]

Hey TH -

Let's pick out some key concepts from you on two seperate topics ...

Darwinsim - Mistress ...

Spirituality - Playing the local Par 3 course with your daughter ...

Hmmm ....  

[THuckaby2]

Mike:  you've figured me out.  I talk a big game but the reality is very boring.  I also have a vivid imagination and love to live vicariously through others.  

TH

[Mike Benham]

Ahhh, then I should share stories about one of my roomates at Bronco Land ...

[THuckaby2]

We can swap stories such as that, I'm sure.  I too have some to tell about fellow SCU grads....

TH