Joe, Brad, and others;In all my many and growing-longer-in-the-tooth years, a wandering lifetime spent gathering memories in the majesty of the natural world........well, that snag..... is close to the pinnacle, for me at least, of tree form, texture, character and beauty.Iconic.Yes, possibly it seems an added complex element, being asked to drive through those goal posts, .........but just think of the history that tree has been sentinal to, the intensity of a hundred winters of wind, the sounds that it's simple standing there has offered.............and will offer to each of us as we walk into the majesty of this new links! Imagine the nests and the eagles perched there, the gathering of crows in the night, the owls, gulls gathered against the storms offshore.....do you know how many pileated woodpeckers have taken up there, and will still??Think of that! And then drop any notion, any talk or mere mention, of removal.When one stands there and puts a hand on that wind burnished surface, soft spruce polished into art, a hand against that surface that has faced countless western suns........consider!Think of the opportunity to be moved by beauty all who walk by will have.....a priceless game in a transcendent place, gilded by a chance to witness that stark form!!For what purpose that trumps all that would we consider it's removal a good thing??Think of what the poet would say.........think of what John Kavanaugh would say! (no, maybe not that!)That's all I got! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!Tom