Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:24:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: DK Sanders-Weatherford <dksander-AT-uark.edu>
Subject: Re: was Re: Minnie, now golf



i am not arguing golf with you or anyone.  all i know about golf is that i
know naught about golf.  perhaps i was asleep when i posted.  i'm actually
planning a trip to death valley and dunes made me think of it.  so, my
post about golf really had nothing to do with golf.  how's that for
off-topic?

dk

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, David Coull wrote:

>
> Darla Kay wrote
>
>  > i've never been to nebraska nor to scotland nor played golf,
>  > but i know you don't have to go to the coast to find sand.
>
> Well of course not.
>
>  > the desert has sand; i know there are dunes in death valley
>
> and there are dunes in the Sahara desert, but the biggest
> ones of all are in the Kalahari desert I think. But that's
> not the point. The point is, so far as golf is concerned,
> the mixture of the right size of sand dunes, bunkers, grasses,
> trees, bushes, water hazards, etc. You don't get that occurring
> naturally in the Kalahari or the Sahara or Death Valley.
> You do get it occurring naturally where golf originated,
> on the east coast of Scotland. Of course you can create
> these conditions artificially anywhere on earth if you have
> enough money to spend, and, since golf is big business,
> this does happen. But the conditions they are re-creating
> are the ones which occur naturally where golf developed,
> on the east coast of Scotland. Personally, I just find
> golf a nuisance, because so much of that natural
> environment is nowadays claimed by golfers.
>
> Dave C