I was talking to Bill Pryse and he said that he was a member at the same club you are and that his brother, an Opthamalogist, John Pryse, was still a member. Does this sound right?
RPJ, I believe you know some friends of mine.
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Yes, I know John very well. He's actually an orthodontist. John lectures a lot nationally and has given several presentations at WVU Dental School. I've met Bill too. Good people.
I don't know what happened to my account. I got this can't log in, tried to set up a new account, ended up with a new handle and probably an independent rivals acct besides the individual WVU acct.
I've been working on my course evaluation schedule for next year. So far I've got Fishers Island, National Golf Links, Shinnecock, Friars Head, Maidstone and Bethpage Black on a NY trip. Seminole in FL plus ??. Pinehurst #2, #8, #4. Pine Valley, Aronomink, and Merion in the Philly area. And possibly Sand Hills in nebraska. You played any of those?
Tony Green and I are going to stay an extra day after The International Four Ball in Feb and play Seminole. I have not played any of those. Damn impressive.
It would be an epic year for me to play any ONE of those courses.
All of those courses have certain minimum standards.:golf:
I continue to be amazed at the wealth and cliquishness of some of these places I visit. The guy who was my host at Baltusrol is not only a member there, but also at Pine Valley, Royal St. Georges, some club in Naples and is also one of only 300 Americans who is a member of the R&A. I played Peachtree in Atlanta unaccompanied. Only 225 members and many of them are also members of Augusta National. I was not allowed into the grill afterwards since I wasn't playing with a member. I didn't feel too bad though since Derek Dooley was playing ahead of me and he wasn't allowed in either. At Cypress Point, their locker room had the names of titans of American culture-Clint Eastwood, Peter Ueberroth, Charles Schwab...It's sometimes a bit surreal to visit these places. Anytime I might be feeling like I'm someone special, I'm quickly brought back down to earth when I visit these places.
I understood what he meant.
I worked at a private country club when I was younger, so it isn't hard to imagine what a lot of the really distinguished places would be like. A couple great things about working where I worked was that it was closed to members on Mondays, so if you worked there you were allowed to golf for free, so I'd golf before and after my shift if I could. Also, when it was lunch time, the chef cooked our meals for us, or if it was at night after some wedding or other event, we would just have leftovers from that event. For a young kid in college, GREAT food.
Also, we were often the last ones there at night cleaning up after a party, so when things were pre-paid and not based on what was used, we would get smashed while cleaning up.
They had a pool party and we'd roll the kegerator back into the clubhouse and stop every 10 feet to take a break and have a beer.