Greetings From Pinehurst

Greetings from the home of American golf. I'm informing you of my presence not because you should care, but should this be my final post, you will know where I met my demise. You see, I'm speaking to Golf Digest's annual gathering of panelist's and while Google has mercifully lost some of my more disparaging columns questioning the sanity of the panel or the rationale for such a panel gathering, I know some out there in panelist land never forget.

I'll be sure to let you know if I survive. I'm confident that the requested chicken wire from the Golf Digest audio-visual department should at least shield me from Newcastle's and Becks.

If the sun comes out I might even post some photos, but apparently the forecast is for (much needed) showery weather tomorrow and early Saturday. 

Comments

[Philip]

Geoff, there have been many martyrs who have spoken truth to power. Let us hope you can do the latter without becoming the former.

[Otey]

How does it go?

"On again, on again, into the valley of death..."

We are counting on you kid.

[bob]

GD is paying for Newcastles and Becks?

[Scott]

Gee, they couldn't get Fazio and Nicklaus to speak this year. :-)

I hope you are not consider Chicken Little, the sky is falling.

[Al]

Geoff
remain strong! Just remember even in the face of a million enemies the truth will always be your friend.

Cant wait for the full report.
Al

[bob]

dont get between the raters and the buffet

[Some All Yeah]

Order the Silver Oak

[Mike B.]

If they start throwing beer bottles, break into a chorus of Rawhide ...

[Lynn S.]

Don't get between the raters and buffet!

Sitting at my computer and laughing out loud.

[R. Thompson]

Smiling faces, smiling faces they don't tell the truth.

Smiling faces, smiling faces, they'll lie, and I've got proof!

Geoff, watch out for the pat on the back......:o)

[Geoff]

Mike B.
Good one! Just what Jake and Elwood would do!

[Ronald Montesano]

"Greetings from the home of American golf." Your words or theirs? What a list of sycophants this crowd turned out to be! Could you lads suck up to poor, martyr Geoff any more? Will you take hemlock with him? Will you wash his feet and anoint his hair? It's not like he might get broken, is it? Shocking as it may come to you, new-age course design is not all bad. Do you really think that Ross, Travers, Tillinghast, MacKenzie and their brethren would not have been tempted to utilize modern equipment in their construction, had it existed? Do you not think that they would have changed with the scary-ass times of the 1950s and 1960s, had they been in their primes or just starting out? If they had been in the dire predicament of needing to put food on the table? We're not talking about independent artists here, are we? They were all commissioned, and responsible to their commissioners.