Abaco Classic@Black Diamond Ranch
Dec 26, 2020 14:10:39 GMT -5
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Post by hmammoth on Dec 26, 2020 14:10:39 GMT -5
You know one of the worse things about this time of year, charity and charities. While I have no issue with charity, what annoys me is that the admins demand that every tgctours staff member needs to attend some charity gathering and represent the tours to show our caring side, which is fine except this events are so dull. At least this year I did not get children, the admins thought that after last year’s incident at the young kids that look like old historical figures event that it might be best if I stayed away from kids’ event. It seems that pointing at a four-year-old and shouting Jesus Christ is inappropriate. In my defence, I thought it was the second coming, although, maybe I should not have asked him to turn my water to wine. This year they sent me to an animal preservation event, something that was right up my street. I brought along my collection of rhino horns, elephant tusks to show how I help preserve certain parts of animals and my PowerPoint presentation was a huge hit, when I showed them the lion I had stuffed and turned into a rocking horse type of toy for my nieces and nephews, there was a stunned silence at my brilliance. That lion preservation by me will last for hundreds of years. Anyway, at the end of the event I was tapped on the shoulder by this weird looking guy, I think his name was jarednich. “you’re the kinetic tour scheduler” he said, “I love your work, I have the perfect course for you to play on the tour, it’s called Black Diamond Ranch, your members would love it”. First of all, it was my night off, do people do not understand that I need time away from scheduling as well, I was here to give back, the help out and here he was talking shop. Secondly, who the @!$# does he think he is, telling me what kinetic members would love, what courses I should pick. I have been doing this for years, I do not need some bald big-headed, uncouth American telling me how to do my job, thinking that he knows courses better than me. I should have punched him in the face, but I did not want me new fans in the animal preservation society thinking that I was a violent and uncaring thug. Anyway, I just wanted to share that story with you, to show how hard it is to be a scheduler.
So, this week I have discovered a truly amazing course with a back nine that is stunning to say the least. The course is by Mike Branca MikeB and is called Black Diamond Ranch. This course is a hidden gem and I am thrilled to be the first person the recognise it’s brilliance and to bring it to your attention. There is actually a very interesting story behind this course. The designer Mike Branca is the son of a well-known New York waste disposal tycoon and wanted Mike to be part of the family business. Mike did not really want to be part of the waste disposal industry, he felt his older brother Sonny had a better temperament for that type of work, and his younger brother Fredo could also help up. Mike, wanted to do something else with his life, he wanted to create. He tried his hand at fashion, hair and make up but nothing seems to work out because the truth was, Mike did not have a creative bone in his body. He then decided to try golf course design, but again, the results were disastrous, it was then that his discovered Lidar, Lidar stands for Lazy Incompetent Designers Appropriate Resources and is a way for people to take others work and claim it as their own. Mike was thrilled, he would finally be able to design a golf course, all he needed was some land and 50 tons of tracing paper. He went to his father and explained his plan, as luck would have it, a landfill site belonging to the family business was just about full, his father offered him the land on the condition that what ever is buried there stays buried. Mike agreed and with the land taken care off, he went and bought the states entire supply of tracing paper. He then found a course he liked, and with crayons and paper, he got to work, painstakingly tracing out the entire course. After 6 months of constant work, he fed the paper into a special Lidar computer, the computer performed some complicated design algorithms such as “this is a bunker, this is a green” and so on and a couple of hours later, produced a golf course. Mike had done it, his dreams had come true, he was a golf course designer. He then approached me with a offer that I could not refuse so now, not only is Mike a designer, he is a tour course designer.
This is the first Lidar course I have ever used on tour, the advantage of this is that if anyone complains about a certain green, I will just ask Mike for the corresponding page of tracing paper and show that that’s the way the course really is. Good luck and have fun, oh and ignore the smell from the eleventh green on day two, not everyone wanted to stay buried.
So, this week I have discovered a truly amazing course with a back nine that is stunning to say the least. The course is by Mike Branca MikeB and is called Black Diamond Ranch. This course is a hidden gem and I am thrilled to be the first person the recognise it’s brilliance and to bring it to your attention. There is actually a very interesting story behind this course. The designer Mike Branca is the son of a well-known New York waste disposal tycoon and wanted Mike to be part of the family business. Mike did not really want to be part of the waste disposal industry, he felt his older brother Sonny had a better temperament for that type of work, and his younger brother Fredo could also help up. Mike, wanted to do something else with his life, he wanted to create. He tried his hand at fashion, hair and make up but nothing seems to work out because the truth was, Mike did not have a creative bone in his body. He then decided to try golf course design, but again, the results were disastrous, it was then that his discovered Lidar, Lidar stands for Lazy Incompetent Designers Appropriate Resources and is a way for people to take others work and claim it as their own. Mike was thrilled, he would finally be able to design a golf course, all he needed was some land and 50 tons of tracing paper. He went to his father and explained his plan, as luck would have it, a landfill site belonging to the family business was just about full, his father offered him the land on the condition that what ever is buried there stays buried. Mike agreed and with the land taken care off, he went and bought the states entire supply of tracing paper. He then found a course he liked, and with crayons and paper, he got to work, painstakingly tracing out the entire course. After 6 months of constant work, he fed the paper into a special Lidar computer, the computer performed some complicated design algorithms such as “this is a bunker, this is a green” and so on and a couple of hours later, produced a golf course. Mike had done it, his dreams had come true, he was a golf course designer. He then approached me with a offer that I could not refuse so now, not only is Mike a designer, he is a tour course designer.
This is the first Lidar course I have ever used on tour, the advantage of this is that if anyone complains about a certain green, I will just ask Mike for the corresponding page of tracing paper and show that that’s the way the course really is. Good luck and have fun, oh and ignore the smell from the eleventh green on day two, not everyone wanted to stay buried.