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As a more real response, yes, definitely give ILL a shot!
As someone who has been on both sides and now is in charge of a library that does lots of ILL, I can say that we genuinely love to see the interesting places our books are going.
When it comes to what we lend where, we are sometimes cagey about loaning hard to find items, but much of our decision making process has to do with how ILL requests have gone with that place previously. If we loan to you, then you are benefiting from the good treatment previous borrowers at your location have shown our books. As such, it is imperative you treat ILL books like the most precious thing in the universe, that way the next set of borrowers can benefit from your careful treatment of our items.
If you have any questions about how the whole process works, just let me know! I love this stuff.
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Scotland’s Gift: Golf is one of my favorites and I really enjoyed Discovering Donald Ross. Eagerly awaiting any news of wider proliferation of the Evangelist.
I give credit to my mother. She’s a school librarian who also was on the library board of our public library.
I put in a request for one of Doak’s The Confidential Guide’s and was told no by the one library that had one.
I have the warm weather Confidential Guide and I think it’s massively overrated and on cruise control. It was a later edition and had Sweetens in it, but had a pre-renovation (early 2000s restoration) Lookout Mountain and that seemed lazy.
It has some good content and was a game-changer when it was new, but there are a lot of sources for course discovery online now.
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Very cool! My mother was a librarian (public library, then a Junior boarding school, and finally finished her career at a Community College that she LOVED; now retired) and my father was a boarding school teacher. I combined the two.
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Nice Clubhouses episode. One of the things I heard about St. George’s hill clubhouse was that it was used as a wartime hospital and/or not built with the intent of being a clubhouse. @BamaBearcat - was expecting that to come up. It is an incredibly impressive building (especially seeing all that multistory brick as a Californian always strikes me a bit more).
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Another great episode! Thoroughly enjoyed it!
@Tron - Funnily enough the International Criminal Court is built on the grounds where the original Hague Golf Club was situated, before it was demolished by the Germans in 1943. The dune next to the old course was used as an execution site for captured members of the resistance. The old entry gate site there to this day, you’ll pass it when you turn in Jackson Mahomes there.
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It had another floor of sleeping rooms and a thatch roof until it went up in flames.
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Are you planning on doing a separate Office Hours to just the “Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf?” Because barely mentioning it in this episode of silly season events seems like a crime. Shell’s WWOG is like the OG of unofficial made for TV events and deserves a lot more recognition than it got.
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You nailed it. I thought Shell’s WWOG deserved it’s own episode. Similar approach with the old News of The World event - I think it will work better as part of a future episode on match play events.
Sadly, it was time considerations that caused our discussion of the Wendy’s Three Tour Challenge to end up on the cutting room floor. Maybe it’ll make it into a directors-cut edition when we release the Office Hours DVD box set.
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Love it.
I was about 10 minutes in and I came in here and posted "why haven’t they mentioned Wonderful World of Golf " but then you did and I deleted it. Look forward to it.
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Wasn’t sure where to post this but I know club logos were discussed here in the past…anyway my brother got to play The Myopia Hunt Club recently and he got me some stuff from the pro shop and just wanted to say their logo is dope. I’m also a fan of clubs that have a sport other than golf in their name (Myopia Hunt, Philadelphia Cricket, etc) I know those are few and far between but for some reason I’ve always found clubs with those kind of names quite fascinating
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Shoutout Dedham Country and Polo Club
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Currently stockpiling Office Hour episodes like a skinny squirrel in September. We’ve even splurged on a new camera. Same great hair and jawline.
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would welcome logo submissions from courses that have opened since covid.
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any notable events we’ve overlooked for a deep dive?
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what else?
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High Pointe has to be on the logo list. Would love your take.
A history of Jack Nicklaus as a businessman.
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Shell’s Wondeful World of Golf
Why CBS is content with signing 1 year contracts with ANGC
Former PGATour pros whose offspring excel in other sports (currently watching Brandt Jobe’s son working relief for the Detroit Tigers)
The rise and fall of the Ashworth clothing company (personal interest)
The Thunderbirds, the Dallas Salesmanship Club, and other local organizations who have comanaged a PGATour event but don’t seem to do much else.
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Second this!
A summary of the high level amateur cocktail tour would be cool.
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Some new logos from up here in Minnesota that I would love for you to review, Windsong Farm in Independence, MN and The Club at Golden Valley.
And maybe a deep dive of the Wendy’s Three Tour Challenge?
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Following Duval’s interview about his win with Tiger, a deep dive on the World Cup of golf
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