Torrey Tales

More shenanigans at Torrey Pines. Something tells me would not be going on if they were not hosting the U.S. Open.

Tod Leonard writes about the tee time and fee increase issues.

Thanks to reader Scott for this story on the trademarking of the Torrey Pines name, and the various hands trying to get their piece of the pie.

Comments

[Al]

"My definition is that if you've teed off, it's a round of golf," said Mark Woodward, the city's golf manager who came here a year ago from managing two city courses in Mesa, Ariz. "That's how we factored it in Mesa. Whether you played nine, 18, six or 15, it doesn't matter. Four holes is a round of golf to some people."

Reminds me of the joke:
I finally broke 80, picked up after 14 holes!

Who has ever said that 4 holes is a round of golf? I want to meet that person. What a poor attitude this city manager has. Another reason why the game is going in the crapper.

[JPB]

Sad. Only times I have played torrey were in the pre renovation days, over 20 years ago now. We were on vacation, and I was a kid with parents who weren't going to travel at places with reserved times or anything. So it was walk up to torrey and wait. I got out every day, 3 times on the south course and once on the north. The waits were long, but the clubhouse was nicer than the public course ones I was used to and I got to hit about 17000 practice putts. It seemed like the locals got times and didn't have to pay a fortune for it. I guess that is a pipe dream for municipal golf though, huh? Spending to much public money on a huge club house is a sham. Worse than overspending for bad renovation. You can see how a group could make mistakes with planning the renovation and spending too much. But a public course should have a decent, functional clubhouse, not a huge waste. I doubt the public would support that, as the one guy in the article pointed out.