Golf investment strategies for the Four More Years

[Rich Goodale]

I'm waiting for the recent O'Bummer market dip to bounce back and then I plan to cash in and invest all my money in a strategy which involves:

1.  Selling long putters short

2.  Re-investing the proceeds in balata and persimmon futures

Before I do so, I need to know....

A.  Do the President or Rep. Boehner use belly putters or are they real men?

B.  Is the harvesting of balata positive or negative to the impending global climate change catastrophe?

C.  If I buy persimmon futures will I be lining Mitch Mcconnell's pockets, or is it only in hickory that he has  cornered the market?

Thanks in advance

Rich

[Mac Plumart]

Create a monopoly or at least an oligopoly.

Buy up all struggling clubs in a specific geographic area.  Shut down as many as you have to in order to make a profit.  Pour all the greens fees and member dues into creating one or two good/great courses, instead of 10 mediocore courses.

Bingo, bango, bingo...you are a big time golf entrepeneur.

[Rich Goodale]

I think it's "bingo, bango, bongo" Mac, and that is a game in the playing of which I have never been able to make any serious money.  It's almost as bad a playing "Wolf" with Huntley.......

[Craig Van Egmond]

Maybe a business making long putter into short putters....

[Sven Nilsen]

Get in early on the Colorado and Washington Frolf booms.

[JESII]

Maybe a business making long putter into short putters....

The Fedex shrink ray commercial may have that figured out...they just can't unchange the rule later...

[Brent Hutto]

Maybe a business making long putter into short putters....

The Fedex shrink ray commercial may have that figured out...they just can't unchange the rule later...

Spoken like a man who doesn't have an un-shrink ray gun...

[JESII]

Very good!!!

[David_Tepper]

And for those of us living in the real world:

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052748703628504578090772719990046.html?mod=BOL_twm_fs

[Bob_Huntley]

I think it's "bingo, bango, bongo" Mac, and that is a game in the playing of which I have never been able to make any serious money.  It's almost as bad a playing "Wolf" with Huntley.......

I think it's "bingo, bango, bongo" Mac, and that is a game in the playing of which I have never been able to make any serious money.  It's almost as bad a playing "Wolf" with Huntley.......

Ricardo,

Thanks for the plug but my income from Wolf has long gone. Having played 18 holes but twice this year and hitting the ball on the range with some success, I accepted an invitation from my old stalwarts to have another try. It was a disaster.

I came home, emptied the trunk of clubs, hats, sweaters, rain gear, shoes, balls and anything that might entice me to play again and promised myself  a month's haitus from the game. For those of you that have never read Henry Longhurst's 'My Life and Soft Times' go to Amazon and get a copy; on page 208 he describes the way he departed the game, I have read nothing better.

Bob

[Bill_McBride]

I think it's "bingo, bango, bongo" Mac, and that is a game in the playing of which I have never been able to make any serious money.  It's almost as bad a playing "Wolf" with Huntley.......

Never take a knife to a gun fight, or your vehicle pink slip to a Wolf Game with Bob.....

[Colin Macqueen]

Gentlemen,

My extensive reading of back issues of GCA throws up nothing other than Bob Huntley is the quintessential gentleman. Now I ask you in a few responses on this thread, Sir Bob or Sir Boab, as I have seen him referred to has his identity linked to a thoroughly predatory animal in phrases such as "….playing Wolf with Huntley." and "…to a Wolf game with Bob."
So have I got the wrong end of the stick and is gentleman Bob in reality the Big Bad Wolf?
What is this Wolf game you speak of with such fear and dread?

In anticipation,
Colin

And yes Bob, as our Henry wrote  " ..a small voice within me said  "You don't have to do this."". I sincerely hope you also got a sense of relief.
Cheers Colin

[Jed Peters]

Gentlemen,

My extensive reading of back issues of GCA throws up nothing other than Bob Huntley is the quintessential gentleman. Now I ask you in a few responses on this thread, Sir Bob or Sir Boab, as I have seen him referred to has his identity linked to a thoroughly predatory animal in phrases such as "….playing Wolf with Huntley." and "…to a Wolf game with Bob."
So have I got the wrong end of the stick and is gentleman Bob in reality the Big Bad Wolf?
What is this Wolf game you speak of with such fear and dread?

In anticipation,
Colin

And yes Bob, as our Henry wrote  " ..a small voice within me said  "You don't have to do this."". I sincerely hope you also got a sense of relief.
Cheers Colin

Although I have the pleasure of beating bob before in his "game" ONCE, I can tell you that he has an uncanny way of putting himself in the right place and right time, not to mention his "selective" use of the tees he decides he should play on a given hole ("Oh, I play up here on this hole") and an uncanny ability to hit a shot he has absolutely no business hitting (see also, the skunked and topped par 3 shot that miraculously ends up on the green closest to the hole).

That, and somehow he always finds himself on the winning team.

The man indeed walks in the sunlight of the Spirit.

[Jed Peters]

You know what? I shouldn't be that kind to Sir Bob.

Honestly, all the drivel above that I wrote is bullshit.

The guy can't hit the ball out of his shadow. And he's not a tall man.

He's just lucky as hell.

[Mike_Young]

Create a monopoly or at least an oligopoly.

Buy up all struggling clubs in a specific geographic area.  Shut down as many as you have to in order to make a profit.  Pour all the greens fees and member dues into creating one or two good/great courses, instead of 10 mediocore courses.

Bingo, bango, bingo...you are a big time golf entrepeneur.

Mac,
I will take the 10 mediocre courses and blow the "two good/great courses" out of the water. 

[Gary Slatter]

Rich, take Irn Bru to America!