[John Kavanaugh]

I would be taken back to the year 2000 when I was full of pride for just joining my first Fazio.  I had not heard of GCA, Golfweek raters or people who thought cartball was a sin against the game.  I miss the innocence of those days.  He would take the form of Dick Grout, the man who introduced me to the game in 1968.

[Bill_McBride]

I would be taken back to the year 2000 when I was full of pride for just joining my first Fazio.  I had not heard of GCA, Golfweek raters or people who thought cartball was a sin against the game.  I miss the innocence of those days.  He would take the form of Dick Grout, the man who introduced me to the game in 1968.

The Pittsburgh shortstop?

[J_ Crisham]

Beverly CC Spring of 1977- first exposure to golf via the caddy route. Instilled a love for the game, caddied for 8 years which miraculously lead to the Evans Scholarship in 1982. Eventually a membership at Beverly- where have the years gone?

[Ronald Montesano]

Easy...Old Town Club, September, 1983...despite Coach Haddock's beneficence, I failed to walk on to the Wake Forest team. My GOCP would have taken me aside and said "Listen, Dumb Ass! (yup, Red's voice from THAT SEVENTIES SHOW) you NEED to caddy here for the next four years, so that you can learn why Perry Maxwell mattered and what real golf architecture is."

Sadly, I left Wake still thinking that Bermuda Run was a better course than Old Town...cue laughter.

[John Kavanaugh]

I would be taken back to the year 2000 when I was full of pride for just joining my first Fazio.  I had not heard of GCA, Golfweek raters or people who thought cartball was a sin against the game.  I miss the innocence of those days.  He would take the form of Dick Grout, the man who introduced me to the game in 1968.

The Pittsburgh shortstop?

No, Jack Grout's brother.

[Ronald Montesano]

Still dropping

names,

I see.

Wasn't the Pirate named Dick Groat, not Grout?

[Bruce Wellmon]

Easy...Old Town Club, September, 1983...despite Coach Haddock's beneficence, I failed to walk on to the Wake Forest team. My GOCP would have taken me aside and said "Listen, Dumb Ass! (yup, Red's voice from THAT SEVENTIES SHOW) you NEED to caddy here for the next four years, so that you can learn why Perry Maxwell mattered and what real golf architecture is."

Sadly, I left Wake still thinking that Bermuda Run was a better course than Old Town...cue laughter.

September 1976. Wake Forest. To know Old Town even existed. I didn't even try to walk on WFU, as I was a 4 HC. Some guy I lost to in High School by a stroke or 2 was like 6th string at Wake and never played, but was on the team nonetheless. Should have tried to walk on once.......................My biggest regret.

[archie_struthers]

 


He would take me to the third hole at Twisted Dune and point !  I would not need much prodding and if given the chance would make the green fall front to back big time.  it would make for some  neat club selection issues and shorten the hole for those who need a boost!


It bugs the hell out of me every time I visit lol!


Then we would take a stroll to the fifth green , where I'd admit that it might have been better with a gnarlier green   Yep.  He has a point.

..we would then go to # 18.

He would point to the big landing area and the large flattish green and stare...at which point I'd tell the wraith he doesn't know diddly about GCA , kick him in the rear end of his plus fours and send him on his way ! 

[Cory Lewis]

13 years old playing the Old White at Greenbrier not having a clue who MacDonald and Raynor were, didn't appreciate the course at all.

[Terry Lavin]

Hickory Hills golf course, 1969, where my dad dropped me and my brothers off and we would sneak on and play until we got caught. Flash forward to 2011 and I'm the authoring judge in an appeal where the Hickory Hills owner wanted millions from his insurance carrier for the loss of five dozen trees in a wind storm.

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