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Location: Phoenix AZ | For the Matt Smith clinic next March I'm planning to come a few days early. On Thursday if anyone would be interested in golfing, I'd definately be up for it. Last year it looked like some mighty fine courses around there. I'm no pro, my golfing is about like my guitar playing, but it would be fun. The first annual OFC Golf Outing! Anyway, I just wanted to mention it now because folks are probably starting to make travel reservations.
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Location: Michigan | No golf for me anymore,after taking an embarrasing 15 strokes on a hole where you had to shoot it up the elephants trunk and it goes around inside of him and pops out his ass onto the green I quit the game, But I will tell you that I did get a hole in one on the one you shoot at the clowns mouth when it is opening and closing .
Make sure before you go that you have your wives or girlfreinds or (boyfreinds) kiss your balls the night before you leave for good luck and to help your putter shaft stay rigid. Hope all who do golf do well.GWB |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | As it gets closer we can get this all set up. There are some great courses there, Royal Amelia is the best on the Island(the brochures won't tell you that but it is) |
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Location: SoCal | You don't go "golfing", you "play golf". No such word as golfing..... |
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Location: Tennessee | I'm always up for doing something others say I can't do ... so you can count on me for going golfing. I'll definitely need a spotter, tho'. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | "A good walk spoiled"-Mark Twain
Actually, I carried an 18-handicap for 15 years, and went back to tennis. Stood on the wrong side of the ball, or so I'm told.
Enjoy the outing! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Che Guevierra, Mao, Marx or Abbie Hoffman said,
"Golf is the Perfect Capitalist-Imperialist Game...
It uses the most land for the entertainment of the fewest people."
Pretty good for a game that started-out with poor folks, a stick, and alot of open spaces and free time.
I like the windmill.
Enjoy! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I just got in from a tournamenttoday; placed 15th out of 24 teams; so I'm in for this...sounds like fun...I play golf to just have fun...I'm certainly not the best but I've been playing since I was 15...great idea! |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | I`m with Artie on this...damn Capitalists..why go "golfing " when you can go chase girls with curves..nice curves.. :)
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Already caught one...she's a keeper!
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I played golf when I was in the service and for a while thereafter, but it was just too slow and inactive for me. I think I broke 90 at Griffith Park one time which was the best I ever did. My brother is about a five handicap and makes me look silly. Then again, I own him in the downhill. |
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Location: NJ | Okay, . . “Golf”.
Probably the only thing that I’m WORSE at than golf is keeping my mouth shut.
For years, I had despised the game as a stuffy, eliteist, waste of time reserved for our SalesDept. “outings” while the rest of us had to work.
I had somewhat softened my view of the game with the advent of films like “Dead, Solid, Perfect”, “Tin Cup”, and “Bagger Vance” . . .
I’ve played TWICE in my life (once about ten years ago, once about a month ago). Nine holes both times, and both times I started t’get the
“hang” of it on the last hole . . .
(the last go-round, it was discovered that I do better with a 6-Iron than I do with a Driver – a recent trip to the driving range confirmed that)
I CAN attest that the few times that I hit a really nice shot made me realize ". . THIS is what the "buzz" of this game is!! . ." Felt good!
I’ve never taken an official “lesson” and I don’t own any clubs . . .
(I take that back – I own one 9-Iron – it was left in our townhouse by the previous owner, and I use it to fire ping-pong balls across the living
room that our cat catches in mid-air).
I’d be REAL interested in participating, but I don’t wanna be a hindrance/burden to anyone.
If it turns out an extra person’s needed t’round out the numbers, I’m willing.
My friend Cheryl lives not too far from there, and she can loan me a set o’clubs, and having a “goal” like this gives me the excuse to go
to the driving range . . . .
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cliff:
I’d be REAL interested in participating, but I don’t wanna be a hindrance/burden to anyone. You talkin' about the guitar clinic? |
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Location: NJ | LickMe. |
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| cliff, lay down the club and step away. Far away. This is how it gets you. "One round can't hurt", "I'm in control", "I can stop anytime I want"............. |
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Location: NJ | Yeah, I know . . but I think it's too late . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I can see it now, Clifford in tartan knickers and plastic cheese-doodle shoes... |
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Location: NJ | Hey! . . I wore 'em on the course in Florida last month . . . |
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Location: SoCal | Jeez, the thought of Clifford playing golf? That image is going to keep me amused all day..... |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by cliff:
Hey! . . I wore 'em on the course in Florida last month . . . Yeah, and the state hasn't been the same since... |
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Location: NJ | ". . Jeez, the thought of Clifford playing golf? That image is going to keep me amused all day . ."
LINT could keep you amused all day . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Cliff, like guitars there are extra clubs on the island. No f@cking crocks on the course though, it will attract the gators. |
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Location: NJ | . . . ohhhhhh . . . . okaaaaaay . . . .
(I just gotta find some bright orange golf shoes now . . .) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I got black ones with yeller flames. How's that? |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal (cwk2):
No f@cking crocks on the course though, it will attract the gators. Funny, I would have thought they would have the opposite effect. You know, like they do on the rest of us. |
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Location: NJ | YOU can LickMe when Witko's done . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | It's sad when a man gets to the age where he expresses his rebellion against society by wearing orange plastic shoes... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | If he's wearing black socks with 'em, there better be a calendar pic taken! |
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Location: NJ | ". . It's sad when a man gets to the age where he expresses his rebellion against society by wearing orange plastic shoes . ."
. . or by riding a "motorcycle" that weighs more than his house . . .
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Location: NJ | And THEN there's:
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Bill Murray could face a drunken driving charge after cruising through downtown Stockholm in a golf cart and refusing to take a breath test, citing U.S. law.
Police officers spotted the 56-year-old actor-comedian early Sunday in the slow-moving vehicle and noticed he smelled of alcohol when they pulled him over, said Detective-Inspector Christer Holmlund of the Stockholm police.
"He refused to blow in the (breath test) instrument, citing American legislation," Holmlund told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "So we applied the old method — a blood test. It will take 14 days before the results are in."
Murray, who had been at a golf tournament in Sweden, signed a document admitting that he was driving under the influence, and agreed to let a police officer plead guilty for him if the case goes to court, Holmlund said.
"Then he was let go. My guess is he went back to America," Holmlund said.
He said Murray would only be charged if tests show his blood alcohol level exceeded the legal limit, which is quite low in Sweden.
A very high alcohol level could lead to a prison sentence, but Holmlund said fines were more likely.
"There were no obvious signs, like when someone is really tipsy," he said.
Holmlund said it wasn't clear where Murray picked up the vehicle, or to whom it belonged.
"It was a golf cart. How it ended up in this predicament I don't know," he said, adding that Murray wasn't facing any theft charges.
It isn't illegal to drive a golf cart in city traffic in Sweden, but Holmlund said it is very unusual.
"I have done this since '68 and I've never experienced anything like this," he said.
Murray was among the cast members on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." He was nominated for an Oscar for 2003's "Lost in Translation." His screen credits also include the 1980 golfing comedy, "Caddyshack"; "Groundhog Day"; and "Rushmore."
GO BILL!!! |
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Location: NJ | . . . does Fernandina list their Ordinances online anywhere???
just curious . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Read "Fore Play" by Bill Geist. Just started it this weekend. My wife is reading it too and enjoying it, even though she's not a golfer. "What's a Mulligan?" |
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Location: NJ | z'at the same Bill Geist from CBS' "Sunday Morning"??
(my usual "post-Saturday Night Gig" view-from-bed faire) |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Uh, does this mean we're allowed to drive carts........oh, never mind!!!
Ready to go:
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It's the same Bill Geist, Cliff. He wrote The Big 5-0 a few years ago about turning 50. He treats most everything with the same lack of reverence. |
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Location: East Tennessee | I think the black hat would be better. :D |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | 
:D ;) :rolleyes: |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You're ready for the trip. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | :D :D :D |
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Location: closely held secret | Mike, you're drooling again. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Sorry, the 47 is on the way!
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