[George Pazin]

[Apologies to Ben Winter for semi-plagiarising (maybe fully, don't know the law) the thread title.]

I recently read a really though-provoking novel. It's called The Last Policeman - it is a murder mystery with a twist: it has been discovered that a comet is hurtling toward the earth and collision (and the resulting planet death) is due in 6 months. So the police detective is struggling to solve the mystery while most around him are adopting a "who gives a crap, we're all gonna die" attitude. It's a very interesting, thought-provoking, and even funny read, I strongly recommend it to all.

So if that comet came a hurtlin', what would you do? Try to complete your bucket list of courses? Try to build that one special course, just to see it played even one time? Try to prove once and for all that such and such a course was built by so and so?

Think about it and share, if you care to.

[Ronald Montesano]

golf would be the last thing on my bucket list.

can you build a course in 6 months? Gil Hanse may have to, down Samba way.

And honestly, I think that most private enclaves would have little chance to keep people out, such would be the lawlessness.

[RJ_Daley]

I'd take as many buckets of balls as it would take to one of my favorite par 3s, and keep at it until I holed out for an ace.  Although it may be a 6798th stroke..and six months later as all the lights went out on earth. 

... still looking for that first one...

[Ronald Montesano]

Brother from another...!!! Still looking for my first dunk job as well. Get twice the buckets and shout at me!!

[RJ_Daley]

Which par 3 hole would you choose, Ron?  I'm thinking probably any one of them at Wild Horse for mine... surprised?   

Or.... I might just go back to 17th at Whistling, and send Pete a video!   

[Garland Bayley]

I'd take as many buckets of balls as it would take to one of my favorite par 3s, and keep at it until I holed out for an ace.  Although it may be a 6798th stroke..and six months later as all the lights went out on earth. 

... still looking for that first one...

Sorry, but that would be a hole in 6798.

A hole-in-one is made during the progress of a round.

[Stephen Davis]

[Apologies to Ben Winter for semi-plagiarising (maybe fully, don't know the law) the thread title.]

I recently read a really though-provoking novel. It's called The Last Policeman - it is a murder mystery with a twist: it has been discovered that a comet is hurtling toward the earth and collision (and the resulting planet death) is due in 6 months. So the police detective is struggling to solve the mystery while most around him are adopting a "who gives a crap, we're all gonna die" attitude. It's a very interesting, thought-provoking, and even funny read, I strongly recommend it to all.

So if that comet came a hurtlin', what would you do? Try to complete your bucket list of courses? Try to build that one special course, just to see it played even one time? Try to prove once and for all that such and such a course was built by so and so?

Think about it and share, if you care to.

What do you mean IF? Isn't the world supposed to end in like 4 months? I think I heard something about some Mayans

[RJ_Daley]

Garland, it is the end of the world!!!!   There are no rules!!!!  You can even wear your hat backwards in any clubhouse on the dying planet!!!!  

[Ronald Montesano]

RJ--wherever you go, I will join you.

Garland, you are correct...and we won't care.

[Stephen Davis]

RJ--wherever you go, I will join you.

Garland, you are correct...and we won't care.

Great post! This made me smile!

[Ronald Montesano]

And this guy can also join us:  http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/olympics/2012/08/09/us-relay-broken-leg.ap/index.html?sct=hp_t2_a2&eref=sihp

[Tom_Doak]

George:

Even before the Global Financial Crisis, golf course architecture has been a very competitive business.

If you don't build every course like it might be the last one you ever build ... that might be the last one you ever build.

[Peter Pallotta]

Reminds me of a story: in the 1950s, poet Alan Ginsburg was a big fan of jazz, and of the aging Lester Young especially. Alan was deep into his period of spiritual thinking/reflection, and Lester seemed -- in the beauty of his improvised solos, and in his gentle ways -- to epitomize those depths. So one night in New York, when Lester was taking a break during one of his shows in New York, Alan sat at his feet as they chatted, and Alan found himself asking: "Prez, if you knew that the atomic bomnb was going to drop on New York City in the next hour, what would you do?"  Who knows what Alan was expecting to hear, or how much gentle fun Lester was having at his expense, but Lester's answer was: "I'd throw a big rock through the window of that jewellrey store across the street and get me a whole bag of those fine diamond rings!".  

Peter

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