I’ve wanted this hat forever, Secret Santa we need details.
Imperial custom. Got it.
Package has been dropped off at UPS.
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I love this place. This is easily the best thread every year. The stalking of those that you get and the counter stalking of those that got you. It always amazes me how some of us have crossed paths or nearly crossed paths randomly.
The Strapped poster is perfect since they were out of stock when I was going to get my own over the summer.
Wood tees are best tees.
Ornament is going front and center on the tree and marks in the bag.
Little miss is already putting her toy to good use.
Thank you for the kind note and now I’m going to have to push my boss and wife to make another visit to Ohio for a round.
If you want to drop your handle and take credit or dm me feel free! (dont want to out your real info just in case 
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I’m a little disappointed that the Springfield CC card doesn’t say “Old Donald Ross Design”
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Tongue firmly in cheek, it’s a dumb SGS reference in case you don’t listen to that program. That is well and truly sick though
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I do. I just don’t recall that particular bit. Sounds 100% Andy though.
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Go Hawks!!!
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An absolute stunner from my guy Joe @bigdessertguy - a gift I never knew I needed but is absolutely phenomenal for a guy like me - exactly what this secret Santa is all about.
As a lover on antiques and old but still useful stuff I can’t wait to get this 100 year old cast iron to work. Thank you!!
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Yes sir!
I’m really glad you like it.
Enjoy, my friend. Merry Christmas.
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It’s relatively new, last month or so. Andy pointed out that whenever someone is talking about a Ross course, they always say, “it’s an old Ross”
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I will be honest, when @cgroom sent me tracking info on my Secret Santa package and I saw it was coming from the Pinehurst area, I was kind of expecting to see something from one of the pro shops there - especially since I’m not the most active poster here.
But clearly I posted about Whataburger at some point - way better than In N Out, for the record - because I got this sweet ugly Whataburger holiday sweater. I’m totally wearing this next week for my team holiday Zoom.
Also, a fistful of sweet tees - many from NC, TBC, NLU, Sweetens, etc. These are already in the golf bag.
So great stalking @cgroom. Excellent work.
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So it went backwards?, or was it on the Concord to California?
Might be mis-reading the times, there was about a 10 hour window between the arrival scans. Maybe it somehow got left on board a plane since there is no departure scan? But then how would it have been scanned in at GSO. Something is fucky
[The scene opens as the doorbell rings on a cold mid-December weeknight. A package delivery has just arrived at the Bullwinkle household during dinner.]
Bullwinkle: [Picking package up off the front porch.] Hashtag golfishome. Hmm. It’s from Lie + Loft! Did I order something from Lie + Loft?
Get the crowbar and a hammer, Bullwinkle Jr. Go on.
“Fra-gee-lay." That must be Italian. Marco Simone?
Mrs. Bullwinkle: I think that says “fragile” honey.
Bullwinkle: Oh, yeah. Here we go. [Excitedly strugges to open package.] Jeezeree! The homies did a job on this, you know?
[Manages to break the seal and open the package.] Here we go. Bullwinkle Jr, hold this scorecard. Do you recognize the logo? What are they teaching in school nowadays, anyway?
[Peers into the top of the package.] My God! There could be anything in there! Jeez!
Mrs. Bullwinkle: Maybe they forgot.
Bullwinkle: It’s in there. It’s gotta be in there.
[With increasing excitement.] Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Would you look at that?
Mrs. Bullwinkle: What?
Bullwinkle: [Enthusiastically pulls L+L print out of packaging.] Would you look at that?
[Sultry music plays.]
Mrs. Bullwinkle: What is it?
Bullwinkle: It–it’s a DC gem!
Mrs. Bullwinkle: But what is it?
Bullwinkle: Well, it–it’s a public walk revered in Washington with quite the aiming reference!
You know, like a monument to municipal golf!
Mrs. Bullwinkle: [Nervously.] A monument?
Bullwinkle: Yeah, a monument!
Bullwinkle Jr.: [Excitedly touches the print.] Yeah, a monument!
Mrs. Bullwinkle: [Pulls Bullwinkle Jr.'s hand away from print.] Junior!
NARRATOR: My mother was trying to insinuate herself between us and the monument print.
Bullwinkle: [Fumbling as he reads the note written on the scorecard.] Holy smoke, would you…do you know what this is?
This is…a Refuge Secret Santa gift from @camgriff2 and the homies at L+L!
NARRATOR: It was indeed a Refuge Secret Santa gift from @camgriff2 and the homies at L+L.
Bullwinkle: Isn’t that great? What a great Refuge Secret Santa gift!
Mrs. Bullwinkle: [Increasingly nervous.] I don’t know. You already have so many golf prints.
Bullwinkle: [Ignores comment and hands Mrs. Bullwinkle the print.] Here, hold it. Hold it. Here, go on.
NARRATOR: The old man’s eyes boggled…overcome by art.
Bullwinkle: I know just the place for it. Right in the middle of our front room window!
Mrs. Bullwinkle: [Overcome by nervousness.] Honey?
Bullwinkle: [Surveying wall already heavily covered with framed DC municipal course artwork.] No. It’s all right. Let’s see…
This is the National Links Trust print with Lee Wybranski…and this is the Dave Baysden painting…and here’s a picture of the family…well, it’s just one too many.
NARRATOR: The switch of a few frames, a quick whiff of drywall…and the East Potomac golden hour print blazed forth in unparalleled glory.
Bullwinkle: [Brimming with barely controlled exuberance.] Look at that! Will you look at that? Isn’t that glorious? It’s indescribably beautiful. It reminds me of the Fourth of July!
Turn off all the lights. I wanna see what it looks like from the street!
Bullwinkle Jr.: I’ll go get the dining room.
Mrs. Bullwinkle: Couldn’t we talk this over?
Bullwinkle: [Hurries outside to view the print from the sidewalk.] Move it a little bit to the right. A little that way. Just a little… More to the right. Yeah. More. That’s it. No, stop! Right there. That’s wonderful.
Neighbor: Bullwinkle, what is that?
Bullwinkle: Don’t bother me now. Can’t you see I’m busy?
Neighbor: Yeah, but what is that?
Bullwinkle: It’s a Refuge Secret Santa gift from @camgriff2 and the homies at L+L!
Neighbor: A Refuge Secret Santa gift from @camgriff2 and the homies at L+L? Shucks, I wouldn’t have known that. It looks like an East Potomac golden hour print.
Bullwinkle: It is an East Potomac golden hour print, you nincompoop. But it’s a Refuge Secret Santa gift. I won it.
Neighbor: Damn, hell, you say you won it?
Bullwinkle: Yeah. Mind power. Mind power and $90 per year.
[A small crowd of passersby is assembling on the sidewalk.]
NARRATOR: The entire neighborhood was turned on by accessible, affordable and engaging municipal golf in our nation’s capital.
Bullwinkle: You should see what it looks like from out here!
NARRATOR: It could be seen up and down the street. The symbol of the old man’s victory.
Neighbor: [To another neighbor passing by.] Yeah, he won that. It’s a Refuge Secret Santa gift from @camgriff2 and the homies at L+L.
Mrs. Bullwinkle: [To Bullwinkle Jr.] Isn’t it about time for somebody’s favorite new golf media collective’s latest content premiere?
NARRATOR: Holy smokes, it was 9:00pm on Wednesday! Only one thing that could’ve dragged me away from the soft glow of golden hour golf gleaming in the window.
YouTube Announcer: Hey, kids! It’s Tourist Sauce Scandinavia time! Brought to you by rich, chocolatey Precision Pro. [Wes Anderson-type music plays and the scene fades to black.]
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Somebody needs to link this post over to the post of the year thread (someone who knows how to do those types of things…).
Bravo.
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