I was hanging out in the office of my good friend (a.k.a. Director of Golf at my home course). He showed me an email he’d gotten from a guy who wanted to book a golf travel package with him. They were willing to “pre pay” for 10 people, including hotel rooms and who knows what else. This would all be paid in advance, but since they were based outside of the USA, we’d have to process the payment for other parts of their travel and “reimburse” their agent who was booking the travel. They would allow us to charge $10,000 or something like that for the hotel, golf and transportation but we needed to wire them the difference of the travel/golf back to them, about $3,000. Uh yeah right.
What this guy booking the travel failed to realize, was that he was willing to book travel to our course when it would be closed for winter, when it has two feet of snow covering it.
That was about a month ago.
Today I received the same solicitation through the HOG contact form, even though I’m not even a “golf course.” Obviously these scammers are scouring the net hoping they can get some bonehead to bite.
I really hope none of you directors of golf, or course operators are dumb enough to fall for a scam like this. Just in case you are I’m posting the entire email below in quotes. I’m also leaving their email address too, in hopes that they get picked up by all the spam bots and get added to all the porn lists. May their in box be full of the same sort of junk they’re sending out!
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Forget golf for a minute. Tomorrow is the biggest home game in Utah football history. 5th ranked (8-0) Utah will be hosting 3rd ranked TCU (7-0) in an epic college football showdown.
I’ll be there early, as ESPN’s “Game Day” broadcast will be happening in the west parking lot of the stadium.
If anyone is going to be at the game, come early and fine me in the tailgate lot. I’ll be making seriously kick ass fajitas.
The winner of this game will be on pace for a BCS busting season, and nobody busts the BCS better than Utah with a 2-0 BCS record. Not bad for a team which isn’t in the BCS, at least until next year when we join the PAC-10.
GO UTES!!!!
I played golf this week, a few days after I returned from my trip to Williamsburg.
At the airport I examined my clubs for damage but didn’t examine my golf bag. When starting my golf round a couple of days ago I noticed the damage. Sure enough, the fine baggage handlers at jetBlue bent the hell out of one of my favorite Ogio carry bag’s legs, and broke the part which holds the legs together and gives them their spring action. So the only way I could get my stand bag to stand, was to prop the legs very wide open, photo #1. Then since it was broken, the legs no longer would retract.
Seconds later, the whole bag collapsed and laid dead flat on the ground. The legs are toast. See pic #2 below. Called jetBlue and they refused to fix or replace the bag.
This is a warning for you golf travelers to think twice before you fly jetBlue. Beware.
A couple of days ago I posted my review of the Golden Horseshoe Green Course. I wrote it on the airplane ride home. I’ve now had a couple of days to reminisce and look over my photos of the Golden Horseshoe Gold Course. I loved it before but the more I reminisce, the better it gets.
Designed By Robert Trent Jones, Sr.
In 1963 the Golden Horseshoe Gold Course opened. It was designed by one of the most famous course designers in golf history, Robert Trent Jones, Sr.
History is a key word because the area of Colonial Williamsburg is a goldmine of historical events, people and places. That goldmine has been preserved since 1926 thanks to the likes of Reverend Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin, rector of Bruton Parish Church and John D. Rockefeller Jr. 
In fact, on a few holes of both courses, a small boat house (pictured right) on the water can be seen. That boat house was owned by Rockefeller.
I’m not typically a fan of “earth mover” course designs. I prefer designs which integrate and flow with the natural surroundings and topography, and that is just what the Gold course does. Back in the early sixties golf course design construction didn’t rely heavily on big machinery and moving a lot of earth. Course designers like Jones used their great imaginations and vision to take advantage of the existing topography.
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