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JC Jones

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #50 on: November 13, 2011, 09:56:05 AM »
Your buddy sounds like a GREAT guy. ;D
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I get it, you are mad at the world because you are an adult caddie and few people take you seriously.

Excellent spellers usually lack any vision or common sense.

I know plenty of courses that are in the red, and they are killing it.

Keith OHalloran

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #51 on: November 13, 2011, 04:02:30 PM »
JC,
If you are going to be snarky, and question someone's comprehension skills, please follow the rules and do it in green!
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Mac Plumart

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #52 on: November 13, 2011, 04:05:49 PM »
Keith...excellent point!!

As far the the Riding Golfer of the Year Award, I hope the judges took into consideration this display of commitment to the riding game.



Hickories and a Mackenzie Walking bag in the back of a cart.  That is dedication!!
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Philip Gawith

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #53 on: November 13, 2011, 04:30:31 PM »
Tom I like that Richie Benaud anecdote! For the Many who won't recognise his name - one of the most famous cricket players Australia ever produced and subsequently one of the greatest cricket commentators of all times.
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Charlie Goerges

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #54 on: November 13, 2011, 04:46:20 PM »
Mac is one of the greats! And certainly one of the biggest golf addicts alive...what's the phrase "no believer like a convert"? Just to illustrate that point, when I arrived at Dismal it was about 43 degrees, raining, and windy. The rest of us could barely stand to be outside. I asked the guy at the clubhouse where Mac was. His reply: "he wanted to get in a quick nine".


That said, he's not above the bending of a few rules!





The above is an over-dramatic dramatization.
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Wade Schueneman

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #55 on: November 13, 2011, 06:28:57 PM »
Mac,

We have another month and a half to run up the score with more great golf (thus setting an even higher standard for 2012).  We should get crackin!
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Evan Fleisher

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #56 on: November 13, 2011, 07:53:40 PM »
Quote from: Charlie Goerges on November 13, 2011, 04:46:20 PM
Mac is one of the greats! And certainly one of the biggest golf addicts alive...what's the phrase "no believer like a convert"? Just to illustrate that point, when I arrived at Dismal it was about 43 degrees, raining, and windy. The rest of us could barely stand to be outside. I asked the guy at the clubhouse where Mac was. His reply: "he wanted to get in a quick nine".


That said, he's not above the bending of a few rules!





The above is an over-dramatic dramatization.

Actually Charlie...I think he was just about to turn that club over and play the hole left handed, therefore he would clearly be behind the tee markers.
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Eric Smith

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #57 on: November 13, 2011, 10:12:21 PM »
Quote from: JC Jones on November 13, 2011, 09:09:17 AM
Quote from: Keith OHalloran on November 12, 2011, 10:03:12 PM
Thanks Eric, rumor is that the prize is a rangefinder! I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Clearly having middle-school level reading comprehension isn't a requirement to pass the NY bar.  He was talking about me! 

Eric,

I would be honored to be the first recipient of the "Riding Golfer of the Year" award.  I think that there are fewer awards in the golfing community that truly reflect my passion and values more than the RGoY.

Why fight over it guys? There are two seats in a golf cart, so theoretically you both could win.
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Ryan Admussen

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #58 on: November 13, 2011, 10:34:02 PM »
That is a pretty impressive year Mac! Hope to play with you again in 2012.
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William_G

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #59 on: November 13, 2011, 10:47:50 PM »
Mac,

Congrats on your great year as well as your quick appreciation and enjoyment of the greatest game!

Your inherent passion is obvious and I'm glad to know you.

Looking forward to more great years one day at a time!

Watched "Seven Days in Utopia" with my son today after watching the Ducks trounce my sister's Stanford last night....after a great week @ the office, on to Bandon for TG with family!

Thanks.

Gray
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Mac Plumart

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #60 on: November 13, 2011, 10:54:19 PM »
Gray...Bandon for Thanksgiving.  How in the heck do you pull something like that off?!?!?!?  Genius, I say, genius!!



Now for the record...that picture at Dismal with me teeing off in front of the tee markers was staged for that specific picture.  Something about Tommy Naccarato and Merion.  ;)



However, that day I put my hickories in the cart and drove was not.  That was the same day I hit 108, fell in the creek (as mentioned previously in the post) and was walking barefoot when I threw in the towel and rode.  


Wade...I have the makings of a Thankgiving golf plan coming together.  Perhaps a little cross country golf in Ohio is in the making.   8)
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RJ_Daley

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #61 on: November 13, 2011, 11:58:51 PM »
Wow, if you keep this pace up Mac, it seems quite possible you'll meet and play with every one of the 1500 worldwide blokes that post on GCA, by 2015.  ;D 

Maybe you should have some logo tees and balls made that are stamped, "Mac was here" and sprinkle the tees about teeing grounds and hit the odd drive into the grunge so scroungers like me (I never buy tees, since I always pick up others and just collect them along the way and don't think I bought balls all year hawking them in rough where I usually have to go anyway).  With the notion of the six degrees of separation, it shouldn't take but a few years and every world wide golfer will have found and played with at least one "Mac was here" tee or ball.  8)
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Patrick Kiser

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #62 on: November 14, 2011, 01:32:02 AM »
Good stuff Mac.  Nice bumping into you this year and meeting you for the first time.  Next time we'll have to get a round in.
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Mac Plumart

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #63 on: November 14, 2011, 07:33:01 AM »
Quote from: RJ_Daley on November 13, 2011, 11:58:51 PM
Wow, if you keep this pace up Mac, it seems quite possible you'll meet and play with every one of the 1500 worldwide blokes that post on GCA, by 2015.  ;D 

Maybe you should have some logo tees and balls made that are stamped, "Mac was here" and sprinkle the tees about teeing grounds and hit the odd drive into the grunge so scroungers like me (I never buy tees, since I always pick up others and just collect them along the way and don't think I bought balls all year hawking them in rough where I usually have to go anyway).  With the notion of the six degrees of separation, it shouldn't take but a few years and every world wide golfer will have found and played with at least one "Mac was here" tee or ball.  8)

I'll order them today!!!   ;D
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JC Jones

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #64 on: November 14, 2011, 08:04:40 AM »
Quote from: Eric Smith on November 13, 2011, 10:12:21 PM
Quote from: JC Jones on November 13, 2011, 09:09:17 AM
Quote from: Keith OHalloran on November 12, 2011, 10:03:12 PM
Thanks Eric, rumor is that the prize is a rangefinder! I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Clearly having middle-school level reading comprehension isn't a requirement to pass the NY bar.  He was talking about me! 

Eric,

I would be honored to be the first recipient of the "Riding Golfer of the Year" award.  I think that there are fewer awards in the golfing community that truly reflect my passion and values more than the RGoY.

Why fight over it guys? There are two seats in a golf cart, so theoretically you both could win.

I have no problem sharing the award, just not with such a walking stalwart as KO.  That man is a Melvyn in an ugly Irishman's clothing.
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I get it, you are mad at the world because you are an adult caddie and few people take you seriously.

Excellent spellers usually lack any vision or common sense.

I know plenty of courses that are in the red, and they are killing it.

ward peyronnin

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #65 on: November 14, 2011, 10:08:41 AM »
Mac

I second all you say....but perhaps the funniest characterization of this site was offered up by Lorne Smith( damn I think thats his name) at Cline last fall during the 10 BUda.

We were in the locker room and one of the local golfers/ranchers inquired what was up with these blokes from all different points on the American/Uk golf map running around the golf course that day and Lorne, dressed in his plus fours and possibly ascot, replied that we were all participants in this internet "chat" room. I think maybe Boonie was standing there with me and we quickly edited that version to clarify that it was a golf discussion group.  Our host by association looked mightily relieved
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Michael George

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #66 on: November 14, 2011, 12:24:57 PM »
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Matt Bosela

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #67 on: November 14, 2011, 12:48:39 PM »
Mac, that is an incredible year of golf. 

We still haven't met but we've exchanged many emails over the past couple of years and I look forward to the day we finally get to tee it up together.  Perhaps at the 5th Major in July!

Continued best wishes...
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Matthew Mollica

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #68 on: November 15, 2011, 06:44:49 AM »
You reckon you had a good year mac -

I hosted John Mayhugh, Patrick Kiser, Michael Whitaker, David Kelly, Brian Walshe,
Mark Ferguson, Scott Warren, Justin Ryan, Bruce Hardie and David Elvins among others...

And I'm rounding it out in the next 5 weeks with Chip Gaskins and Bill Schulz!

MM
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Melvyn Morrow

Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #69 on: November 15, 2011, 07:28:33 AM »

Mac

What a great year, all so well so celebrate, but alas the year was not as good as you convey in your thread, it shows defeatism, compromise and acceptance that the traditions of golf can be discarded at a moment’s notice. I of course am referring to the photo re your reply#55.

How any dedicated follower of the Royal & Ancient Game of Golf can lower his standards is beyond me (joke), but then I must remember that you have a good reason to fall back to the cart if needs arise.

Well done, it has been a brilliant year for you and your game, for that I do share your moment of celebration, of all on here you certainly deserve the respect of all of us for the way you have faced all the challenges head on yet all the time with such a positive frame of mind.

You are good for the game and I believe make a great Ambassador for all things Golf.

Melvyn

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Mike Benham

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #70 on: November 15, 2011, 08:11:11 PM »
Quote from: Keith OHalloran on November 12, 2011, 08:53:43 PM
The one exception, as I am sure most will agree, is that I met JC Jones on 2011! So you see, the site isn't perfect!  :D


I must be out of the doghouse.

Signed,

F.N. Benham
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Mac Plumart

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #71 on: December 28, 2011, 05:32:08 PM »
Quote from: RJ_Daley on November 13, 2011, 11:58:51 PM
Wow, if you keep this pace up Mac, it seems quite possible you'll meet and play with every one of the 1500 worldwide blokes that post on GCA, by 2015.  ;D 

Maybe you should have some logo tees and balls made that are stamped, "Mac was here" and sprinkle the tees about teeing grounds and hit the odd drive into the grunge so scroungers like me (I never buy tees, since I always pick up others and just collect them along the way and don't think I bought balls all year hawking them in rough where I usually have to go anyway).  With the notion of the six degrees of separation, it shouldn't take but a few years and every world wide golfer will have found and played with at least one "Mac was here" tee or ball.  8)

Dick...I kid you not.  I got these for Christmas from the guys in my office.  No requests.  No hints.  No nothing.  Either you tipped them off or it was meant to be.   ;D

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Howard Riefs

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Re: 2011---The Best Year of My Life
« Reply #72 on: December 28, 2011, 05:40:05 PM »
Quote from: Mac Plumart on December 28, 2011, 05:32:08 PM

Dick...I kid you not.  I got these for Christmas from the guys in my office.  No requests.  No hints.  No nothing.  Either you tipped them off or it was meant to be.   ;D




A nice gift from your colleagues.  They're much kinder than I am.  I sent my dad a few dozen of these...



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