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    Default NQ Matchplay: BrettM v Dcanto

    To be played and enjoyed in the true spirit of the gentlemen's game. To kick it off, I'd like to paste a brilliant piece from Max Behr, The Democracy of Golf, Golf Illustrated, October 1915, posted in an excellent history of life and work of William Flynn I bought recently:

    The game of golf, if it is anything at all, is a sanctuary, a well where one may refresh oneself by the very fact that the game enshrouds one with a cloak of democracy. Not only are all men equal upon the links, not only are social and worldly distinctions laid aside, but, the game itself has the peculiar faculty of removing that veneer of convention, pride and vanity, which some men are wont to lay around them.

    "If you want to know your man, play golf with him."

    And it is because the game reduces man to his simple natural state, lays his very soul open to the world, that there is inculcated among golfers a spirit of pity, forgiveness and wise toleration, but, above all, brotherly kindness. What other game has this humanizing property? None that we know of. They are all of them direct assertions of will and skill in direct opposition to the tasks set by an opponent. There is never time, for instance, in a rally at tennis for true reflection; all is intuition, for one's best laid plan of attack is open to defeat by the countering of one's opponent. But, in golf, no stroke of the opponent can imperil a man's skill. He is his own master. And because he stands so very alone, so absolutely dependent upon himself that we are given an insight into what manner of man he is. That is why golf has been compared to life. A man rises and falls in the world at those critical points of his career where he alone can make a decision. He then plunges into the whirl of the world until again he finds himself upon a desert island of doubt and must decide. But a golf match is always a desert isle for him. Every shot is only a peg to an uncertain future. Luck, good and bad, he knows awaits him. What sudden inexorable task his opponent may set by a brilliant stroke lies hidden in the mists ahead. All he can do is to stride bravely forward and manfully accept the situations that confront him one hole after another.

    It is possible in this way to look upon golf as a game of character and the skill necessary to play it as the means to its revealment. And the revelation leads to humbleness, the only state of mind in which true values may be arrived at. Weakness is no longer scorned and laughed at. It is seen to be inherent in all. It is only the man who makes excuses who puts himself out of court. The strong man admits his failings on the spot and is happy to know just how and where he may school himself for the future. And so the game of golf enforces a spirit of charity, for we must give if we expect charity in return for failings we cannot hide. The duffer and the scratch player stand here on equal ground. And, although one may far exceed the other in skill he may yet lag behind in character, the only foundation upon which skill in golf can achieve a high position and sustain itself there.


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    Go Tomson!


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    Quote Originally Posted by BrettM View Post
    To be played and enjoyed in the true spirit of the gentlemen's game.
    Boooooo !!

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    Go Haysey
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    Quote Originally Posted by haysey View Post
    Go Tomson!
    Quote Originally Posted by mike View Post
    Boooooo !!
    Quote Originally Posted by Tomson View Post
    Go Haysey
    Wankers.

    I think it's time you guys started reading a little more about the history of the great game rather than the latest Drummonds catalogue.

    Love - Brett.
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    Your first mistake was assuming any of us can read.


    "That former Solahart manager is so overbearing and intimidating"."

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    What charter boat?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BrettM View Post
    Wankers.

    I think it's time you guys started reading a little more about the history of the great game rather than the latest Drummonds catalogue.

    Love - Brett.
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    Didn't you see the charter boat?


    "That former Solahart manager is so overbearing and intimidating"."

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    I never see the charter boat
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    What about the turtle?


    "That former Solahart manager is so overbearing and intimidating"."

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    Why don't we start with Geoff Shackelford's 'The Golden Age of Golf Design'

    I'm sure you can squeeze it in with the latest eBay purchase
    And the mayor announced from Thursday on should not be shat into the creek anymore, because on Saturday beer is brewed.

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    turtle got very very drunk and passed out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tomson View Post
    I never see the charter boat
    What about the little man in a boat? I quite often find him right on the tip of my tongue...


    "That former Solahart manager is so overbearing and intimidating"."

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrettM View Post
    Why don't we start with Geoff Shackelford's 'The Golden Age of Golf Design'

    I'm sure you can squeeze it in with the latest eBay purchase
    Does it have lots of pretty pictures?


    "That former Solahart manager is so overbearing and intimidating"."

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    Quote Originally Posted by haysey View Post
    Does it have lots of pretty pictures?

    Drummond logs do!


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    Quote Originally Posted by BrettM View Post
    Why don't we start with Geoff Shackelford's 'The Golden Age of Golf Design'

    I'm sure you can squeeze it in with the latest eBay purchase
    Dibs!


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    Bugger that. Just had a look at how much it costs on amazon.



    As an aside. I've been visiting shacklefords website for ages. Had no idea he wrote books.


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    Are books still around?


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    Quote Originally Posted by BrettM View Post
    Wankers.

    I think it's time you guys started reading a little more about the history of the great game rather than the latest Drummonds catalogue.

    Love - Brett.
    I didn't realise you were such a student of the history of the game.

    I posted this in another thread but I thought it would add to the opening post. I saw this quote in a calendar I got for X-mas which has golf quotes and trivia on each page. This comment is from the New York Tribune circa 1916:

    "Golf is, in part, a game; but only in part. It is also in part a religion, a fever, a vice, a mirage, a frenzy, a fear, an abscess, a joy, a thrill, a pest, a disease, an uplift, a brooding, a melancholy, a dream of yesterday, and a hope for tomorrow."

    And another quote for those less interested in the history of the game:
    "I hate computer golf - you can't throw the clubs" Paul Azinger.

    Play well gentlemen.

    Golf is, in part, a game; but only in part. It is also in part a religion, a fever, a vice, a mirage, a frenzy, a fear, an abscess, a joy, a thrill, a pest, a disease, an uplift, a brooding, a melancholy, a dream of yesterday and a hope for tomorrow. - New York Tribune, 1916.

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    ffs

    Brett and Dave, you pair should play your match in plus fours and use Mashie Niblicks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mike View Post
    ffs

    Brett and Dave, you pair should play your match in plus fours and use Mashie Niblicks.
    Don't forget the old "feathery" balls as well.

    Golf is, in part, a game; but only in part. It is also in part a religion, a fever, a vice, a mirage, a frenzy, a fear, an abscess, a joy, a thrill, a pest, a disease, an uplift, a brooding, a melancholy, a dream of yesterday and a hope for tomorrow. - New York Tribune, 1916.

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    Yeah. Golf must have been fun back then. Lots of excuses for playing bad.


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    Yep. Back then you really could blame your equipment and get away with it.

    Golf is, in part, a game; but only in part. It is also in part a religion, a fever, a vice, a mirage, a frenzy, a fear, an abscess, a joy, a thrill, a pest, a disease, an uplift, a brooding, a melancholy, a dream of yesterday and a hope for tomorrow. - New York Tribune, 1916.

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    Is this to be played on the 30th? At Mareeba?
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