Gof course survey in Vegas.

[bruce hall]

I was thinking about a project surveying a golf course or two in Vegas during the upcomming CLSA-NALS conference. Should be nice weather with good satellite geometry. Maybe getting 4 or 8 or 12 men and women together would make for a survey party of sorts.

Anyone interested or should I just go roboticaly solo?

[subman]

If I am able to make it, I would be glad to be a rear chain man on a crew!

Headed off to my time share in Indio tomorrow morning to meet up with 16 buddies from work for a good get-away weekend! Playing Terra Lago Saturday morning. Poker, cigars, adult beverages and tall tales... Priceless

[Ian Wilson]

Bah!

Winston Churchill: "Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

John Updike: "Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five."

Paul Gallico: “If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.”

Bruce McCall : “It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.”

William Wordsworth: “Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”

Mark Twain: “Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

Bob Hope: “Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.”

Raymond Floyd: “They call it golf because all of the other four-letter words were taken.”

Paul O'Neil: “Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors.”

Jim Murray: “Golf is not a game, it's bondage. It was obviously devised by a man torn with guilt, eager to atone for his sins.”

Paul Harvey: “Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.”

Art Rosenbaum: “Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well.”

Princess Anne of Great Britain: “Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.”

George Deukmejian: “The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.”

Author Unknown: “If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.”

And if you still insist on playing… “May thy ball lie in green pastures... and not in still waters.” Author Unknown

[land butcher]

People go out and hit a little ball with a big club as hard as they can, then go and try to find it.

Weird.

[MFORD]

Ian, well said. My youngest son has an 8 iron story about my last (and final) golf outing. As my biker friends say "you never see a motorcycle outside of a psychiatrist’s office". You can't say the same about golf clubs.

[bruce hall]

the motorcycle is seen "inside the shrinks' office"?