Golf Do?
 

I see we have a bunch of golfers here on Flyer Talk. Has anyone ever put together an outing? Flamboyant 1 had an earlier thread. Is anyone interested?
Could be a blast?
Jon

I'm conjuring up pictures from Caddyshack with a bunch of FTers taking over the golf course.... ;) It could definitely be fun. Consider me (and the sticks) as interested.

I had a very successful nine holes last weekend - not once did I have to re-tee off from the women's tee with my pants around my ankles. :)

Very interested!

I can putt into a whiskey glass in my living room - does that count? :D

I'd be interested because cawhite's description above came to my mind as well! I can't play so I'd have to be a caddie or gopher.

But can you dance like the gopher from Caddyshack????

Are you still using your hockey stick to putt?

@:-) Did I read Golf? :cool:

^ I am certainly interested in Golf. Now if I can only feasibility attend. :(

We shall see!

Let's find a place and date. Suggestions anyone?
BTW Randy featured this in his weekly news letter. ^

And quite timely...don't forget to visit the S.P.A.M. forum & register for your free sleeve of golf balls!

No, I use that for my drives and to do the "rodeo ride" any time I don't 3+ putt.

This might help with the 3 putts:
http://funwavs.com/wavfile.php?quote=838&sound=156

"Cinderella boy, outta nowhere, a former greenskeeper now about to become the master's champion."

That will help my drives, but I don't think it will help my putting...

"he's come outta nowhere, he's got about 350 yards left, he's gonna hit about a five-iron, don't you think?"

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It probably won't help my game, but maybe it will help yours:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...=270545&page=2

I'm picturing this... (kinda like you & the Hemisphere's magazine thing ;) )

My Schedule so far....
 

I am in Europe from the 29th of June until the 22nd of July
08/05/04 Rye, NY
08/06/04 Clearfield, PA
08/07/04 Baltimore, MD
08/12/04 Louisville, KY
08/13/04 Chicago, IL
08/14/04 Oshkosh, WI
09/10/04 Norwalk, CT
09/18/04 New York, NY
10/02/04 Tacoma, WA
10/24/04 San Juan, PR

BDLord, if you're gonna be in Louisville, maybe you & Spiff should meet (over a beer, natch) to discuss venue & date. Given that it's FT & that we're all willing to fly somewhere & it's golftime year-round in certain locales, just tell us where & when. jerry.a.laska might even appreciate a break in the fall or winter when it gets a bit nippy where he lives ;)

I see I need to add photographer along to my caddie & gopher duties, so that I can catch that 'rodeo ride' thing w/ the hockey stick. And cawhile, I'm practicing my gopher dance as I post :D

"IT'S IN THE HOLE."


As for me:
"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."

Yours truly lives in a house about a block from the writer of Caddyshack (who killed himself in Hawaii after thinking the movie was a flop).

If one can quote Animal House or Caddyshack, one is truly a Renaissance person.

I did get a bowl of soup with the hat.

Very Interested

Dan

And thanks to dan for bringing the thread back OT! The rest of you can quote Caddyshack when you're trying to hit the itty-bitty round thing w/ a long stick :D

My first thought was Kiawah....but the next thought was that of FTers and ponds filled with gators...not a pretty one & the gators likely wouldn't stand a chance. Of course my favorite choice would be Costa del Sol...but not very realistic. Maggie Valley?

Do we want east or west?

:D

OT: High country golf? Great for egos.

Now a Caddyshackism:

It's easy to grin
when your ship comes in
and you have the stock market beat.
But a man that's worthwhile
is a man that can smile
when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

OT:
"Don't sell yourself short Judge, you're a tremendous slouch."

If we find some useful fares, Ireland in September can be nice. Otherwise, as sharon pointed out someplace warm would also be nice.

PHX is warm in Sept :D

You know, I've heard that before somewhere. :)

Great Golf. . .
 

some of the country's best golf can be found here in North Carolina. . .in case anybody is interested (Pinehurst has several lovely courses). I am definitely interested in this. I miss my wine and women league of golfing :)

Inexpensive fares coming to RDU courtesy of Independence Air starting on 07/06.

or South Carolina
 

The land of 1000 courses. Myrtle Beach in Sept.? Cheap Golf, Hotels and Condos

That was the other problem with Kiawah...aside from not wanting to frighten any gators....it isn't exactly cheap (but those are gorgeous courses!)

Also w/SC is Hilton Head area

I'm in depending upon the dates you suggest!

What about Oct or Nov?
 

Isn't September basically tied up w/ Dos & Labor Day weekend? What about Oct or Nov? Mainland is probably cheaper to get to than Ireland or Hawaii, although I think the words cheap & golf don't go hand-in-hand. Kind of like skiing in that respect ;)

Yes, but not everyone is going to be at every DO (or wanting to attend every DO), so don't we have a bit of flexibility with that? (Just asking since I'm still a FT novice...please don't anyone interpret that question as an invite for a flame war)

JMO, but I'm already golfing Hawaii later this year with friends so I'd like to see something not already on my books for this year. I"d love to do the Carolinas if it's early enough in the autumn as it's absolutely gorgeous out there. Someone else (ahem...you'd better post when you get home!) suggested MCO.

I don't even know of any other dos (so perhaps I'm just not paying attention ;)). As far as October and November - that's hurricane season here in the Carolinas folks :) Personally, I think that we may get more people if we keep it simple i.e., not having to travel across the world to play some golf.

Late August/early Sept is also good weather/golfing in Phx too (plug for jan_az) :)

If we do PHX, we could also push it later in the autumn....right?

There's lots of courses in the Louisville area, too.

Fuzzy Zoeller has a course that is about 20 min from SDF.

And if you do PHX - you can have golf for those who golf- and spa's for those who dont :D

Jan's got it right!
 

Golf & spa - how cool is that?

Ok, btwn labor day, oktoberfest, denver brew fest, etc, some of the folk posting on this thread that they'll do a golfdo won't be available if it's in sept. i'm still voting for oct or nov, but if it happens when i'm not available, then i designate cawhite to take my place doing the gopher dance :D although she needs to start practicing now cuz i'm good at it :p

btw - i'm a bit surprised that we actually haven't heard from more folk who golf (no disrespect intended to those who have posted).

and spiff, while i'm not familiar w/ courses, anything that has fuzzy in its name sounds fun to me! :)

Will you be around August 7th? I will be in Louisville then.