John,
You're right, John. Between writing the book (545 pages and counting) and helping my two boys learn the game (they don't want to take real lessons) I've only played a little this year. Ouch! Only 14 times. I bet half those scores were away rounds. Its amazing how much the average cost of a round at my club is to me these days. Well no wonder Mike Malone plays six days a week, that cheap Quaker
I wonder how many scores he has.
Only two shots per round difference versus all my scores? That is a lot less than I would've thought.
Rich,
That's odd that Tom hasn't posted since Aug 2004. I think he's played a few times in the last year. He's been hurt for a while now; bad shoulder. Once at least at The Creek (73)
My writing partner, dissatisfied with his two paragraphs to date (damn fine ones too) is now kicking it into second gear. Why just the other day he called me from his tractor and told me that its all come to him and he knows where he's going with his writing.
His is the far more difficult task than my own. I'm doing histories and factual material and Tom is tying together all sorts of things like removing the lens of time to capture the agronomy, culture of sporting clubs and state of golf during Flynn's era. He's also determining Flynn's work at Pine Valley and then wrapping things up with restoration and maintenance meld practices today. There and back so to speak.
The best clue we'll all have is how little he posts on GCA.com over the next few weeks. There is certainly an inverse correlation.