I love Thanksgiving Day and all the predictability that comes with it. Each year, the family and I make the annual trek up north to an often snow-infested part of northwest Indiana dubbed “The Region.” This would be her family — an entire house filled with people that I haven’t seen since last year’s festivities. Oh what joy! The real entertainment will begin when I start checking off the list of this year’s over/under predictions:
5 — The number of times that Gus, my 3-month old Pug has “an accident” on my in-laws new downstairs carpeting.
7 — Incidents that involve children crying.
2 — Incidents that involve adults crying.
3 — Bottles of wine consumed throughout the day.
18 — Cigarettes secretly smoked while “taking out Gus.”
1 — Major announcement that someone is pregnant. (This has happened for the past six years, I’m NOT kidding.)
60 — Minutes late that lunch/dinner is actually served.
34 — Total score of Tennessee/Detroit game.
40 — Total score of Seattle/Dallas game.
47 — Total Score of Arizona/Philadelphia game.
I will promise to observe keenly and report back on these predictions for those of you who are playing the home version of the game.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
— Christopher S. Gray, Sr.
General Manager/Director of Golf Course Operations
Marvel Golf Club, Benton, Ky.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Will Parts of Your Golf Course Disappear?
I visited Kirtland (Ohio) Country Club not long ago. They were amid a bunker renovation, and they discovered that some bunkers were missing from the original designs of C.H. Alison in 1921. Superintendent Chad Mark surmised that some were filled in during the Great Depression to diminish labor costs.
It made me wonder if superintendents would be considered visionaries today if they started filling in bunkers around their golf courses as economists allude to a global economic downturn that could rival the loss of wealth experienced in the 1930s.
Are you doing anything drastic to your golf course to reduce maintenance or mitigate costs?
— David Frabotta
It made me wonder if superintendents would be considered visionaries today if they started filling in bunkers around their golf courses as economists allude to a global economic downturn that could rival the loss of wealth experienced in the 1930s.
Are you doing anything drastic to your golf course to reduce maintenance or mitigate costs?
— David Frabotta
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