In honour of our Montreal member, Yannick Pilon, who is making a trip to the Centre of the Universe (TM) on Nov. 28, I'm suggesting a Toronto pre-Christmas Golf Club Atlas fight club, at our usual spot in the Beaches on the evening in question.
I'm thinking of an outing starting around 6 pm, to allow our senior member, Richard Kirkpatrick, to join us before he heads home and his nurse tells him it is lights out. The whole affair will finish when Yannick has to stumble out to get a cab and return to his wife and delightfully cute children, or whenever all the beer is finished at Murphy's Law. Whatever comes first.
In past, we've had fist fights over the merits of Highlands Links vs. St. George's and smashed glasses over whether Thomas McBroom's work is worth studying. Past guests have included Canadian Golf Hall of Famer Lorne Rubenstein and some drooling inebriated types from north of the city.
In the past we've had up to 20 people show up and would love to see area GCA types both new and old on the night in question. Please either PM me or let me know if you're interested and I'll set up the details.
Ian Andrew has already proposed to serenade us with his annual Christmas golf poem and perhaps start another golf architecture quiz. The last one was such a stunning hit that I saw several patrons of the bar shake their heads in what was surely astonishment at the level of design knowledge in the room. I suppose they might have been equally perplexed that anyone would spend time on such folly. I, however, feel solidly it is the former.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing your drunken faces and would be pleased to sign copies of my new book for everyone in attendance. What is that you say? You don't have it? Well it is called "Going for the Green: On the Links with Canada's Business and Political Elite," and can be purchased from a quality local bookstore north of the 49th parallel. The Globe and Mail called it a masterwork, up there with Atwood's finest and the collected works of Farley Mowat.
So commit, dammit, commit and we'll surely have another successful GCA Toronto Fight Club.
And remember, the first rule of GCA Toronto Fight Club is don't talk about GCA Toronto Fight Club.