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Peter Pallotta

The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« on: April 14, 2018, 11:13:22 AM »
Q: What interests, inspires, and/or engages you the *most* when you step onto a tee-box and look out at the golf hole in front of you?

(my one word answer)
A: Symmetry



 

Adam Lawrence

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2018, 11:16:24 AM »
Nature.
Adam Lawrence

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Author, 'More Enduring Than Brass: a biography of Harry Colt' (forthcoming).

Short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

Doug Hodgson

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2018, 11:23:16 AM »
Asymmetry ;)


Actually I'd say Undulation

Dan Gallaway

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2018, 11:33:46 AM »
Decisions

John Kavanaugh

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2018, 11:34:08 AM »
Discipline.

Joel Pear

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2018, 11:36:28 AM »
Target

Joe Hancock

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2018, 12:03:09 PM »
What?
" What the hell is the point of architecture and excellence in design if a "clever" set up trumps it all?" Peter Pallotta, June 21, 2016

"People aren't picking a side of the fairway off a tee because of a randomly internally contoured green ."  jeffwarne, February 24, 2017

Ken Moum

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2018, 12:25:57 PM »
Try as I might, I can't come up with one word that's better than Doug's


Undulation
Over time, the guy in the ideal position derives an advantage, and delivering him further  advantage is not worth making the rest of the players suffer at the expense of fun, variety, and ultimately cost -- Jeff Warne, 12-08-2010

John Connolly

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2018, 12:58:58 PM »
Awe.
"And yet - and yet, this New Road will some day be the Old Road, too."

                                                      Neil Munroe (1863-1930)

John Kirk

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2018, 12:59:34 PM »
Nature.

Jeff Schley

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2018, 01:16:20 PM »
Hazards


I guess because I tend to find them. ;D
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- Steve Prefontaine

Adam Clayman

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2018, 01:33:44 PM »
Character
"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing your whole life." - Mickey Mantle

Thomas Dai

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2018, 02:07:13 PM »
Angles

Greg Smith

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2018, 02:09:25 PM »
Texture.
O fools!  who drudge from morn til night
And dream your way of life is wise,
Come hither!  prove a happier plight,
The golfer lives in Paradise!                      

John Somerville, The Ballade of the Links at Rye (1898)

James Reader

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2018, 02:12:06 PM »
Anticipation

Gib_Papazian

Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2018, 02:13:19 PM »
Content.

Christian Newton

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #16 on: April 14, 2018, 02:16:22 PM »
Contrast

Pete_Pittock

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #17 on: April 14, 2018, 02:18:56 PM »
start

Ira Fishman

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #18 on: April 14, 2018, 02:29:35 PM »
Mystery.

Sam Andrews

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #19 on: April 14, 2018, 02:33:58 PM »
Skylarks
He's the hairy handed gent, who ran amok in Kent.

Erik J. Barzeski

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #20 on: April 14, 2018, 02:34:24 PM »
Challenge
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I generally ignore Rob, Tim, Garland, and Chris.

Dan Kelly

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #21 on: April 14, 2018, 04:04:49 PM »
Choices.


(That's my answer as a golfer. My answer as a person: Beauty.)
"There's no money in doing less." -- Joe Hancock, 11/25/2010
"Rankings are silly and subjective..." -- Tom Doak, 3/12/2016

Tim Gallant

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #22 on: April 14, 2018, 04:33:54 PM »
Original.

Steve Lang

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #23 on: April 14, 2018, 04:36:40 PM »
 8)  YABBADABBADOO


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The voice of Inverness"

Ian Galbraith

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Re: The One-Word Answer Approach - Part 1
« Reply #24 on: April 14, 2018, 05:58:32 PM »
Hmm??

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