I think there are some restrictions due to it being on a reservoir. For example, you cant just drop a kayak or boat in the water, although boating (paddle and electric trolling motor) is allowed. Boat has to be registered, and there are some rules against putting in a registered boat if its been in other waters (I think you have to verify it has been cleaned). It’s illegal to swim in (I swam in there a lot back in high school).
That makes sense. I wasn’t sure what it was like in Baltimore, but I’ve heard it can be difficult to remove trees next to the Potomac River (unless your Dan Snyder). And my cousin lives next to a reservoir in South Carolina and they aren’t allowed to remove any trees from their backyard. Before that, I had no idea people were so protective of the areas around reservoirs.
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I love the stretches of 7-10, 12-14, and 17-18. If you could open up the views around greens 2-17, and on the left side of holes 3-4, down the left sides of 9-10, clean up the area around #14 it would be great.
Well, Godzilla probably made someone a billionaire, so I could understand being totally sober and thinking “hey, I’ll make a local spinoff and get rich!”
Back to golf, though - @KVV have you played Mountain Branch? Got dragged there by a couple buddies this summer, played in 105 degree heat mid-July. Curious what someone who may have played there thinks of the course since my brain went into amnesia half the time from dehydration.
Charlie Parker did not throw a cymbal at Buddy Rich…
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I have played mountain branch quite a few times and the course has potential of interesting holes. Short reachable 4s, some good par 3s. Strategic par 5s if you want to get home in 2. However the management there has really struggled to keep the course in consistent shapes. I can recall years were the greens have been lost/very patchy.
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Cool. The one time I played last summer the course was in pretty good shape. I remember about 5 hole distinctly, but otherwise all I remember is sweating off about 15 pounds in a day. Seriously, my pants didn’t fit anymore after that one.
I’ve definitely played in mid-summer and had the same experience. Deliriously hot and I recall a good bit of drainage issues. But I’ve caught it on a nice fall day and loved it. I think a little less value compared to other tracks around, but definitely one to mix in everyone and again if you play be Bmore county/muni circuit. It’s been a few years, but I distinctly remember a few really fun holes like 1, 10. Some funky par 4s. Sickkk practice green and clubhouse though.
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As soon as those words escaped my mouth, I was 99 percent confident I’d gotten the anecdote 100 percent wrong.
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And Jo Jones didn’t actually throw a cymbal at Bird. (One of the many reasons why Whiplash is a really bad movie.)
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@Soly @Tron I thought when you guys were out playing in Tahoe (?) you were adding money to the Strapped budget. Was that for Baltimore or a future season?
Lol all good! Loved the episode regardless!
Now I haven’t looked it up in awhile (and haven’t seen Whiplash in forever), but didn’t Parker get a cymbal thrown to the ground by a drummer (like at his feet) in a “time to stop and let the next guy go you young hotshot” sort of way? Or just totally made up?
Will the budget be updated for inflation in 2020? Or will only the C-Suite’s salary rise?
Jo Jones.
While Jones’s pulse surged on behind him, the teenager lost the tune, and then the beat. Jones stopped, and Parker froze, clutching his gleaming new saxophone. Jones contemptuously threw a cymbal at his feet, and the reverberations were followed by the sound of laughter and catcalls.
It wasn’t “Come on, you young guy!” it was “Dude, what the fuck.”
Here’s the real story, as related in Stanley Crouch’s recent biography of Parker, “Kansas City Lightning.” Crouch spoke with the bassist Gene Ramey, who was there. It happened in 1936, and Parker (whose nickname was Bird) was sixteen:
“Bird had gotten up there and got his meter turned around,” Ramey remembered. “When they got to the end of the thirty-two-bar chorus, he was in the second bar on that next chorus. Somehow or other he got ahead of himself or something. He had the right meter. He was with the groove all right, but he was probably anxious to make it. Anyway, he couldn’t get off. Jo Jones hit the bell corners— ding . Bird kept playing. Ding. Ding . Everybody was looking, and people were starting to say, ‘Get this cat off of here.’ Ding! So finally, finally, Jo Jones pulled off the cymbal and said ‘DING’ _ _on the floor. Some would call it a crash, and they were right, a DING trying to pass itself as under a crash. Bird jumped, you know, and it startled him and he eased out of the solo. Everybody was screaming and laughing. The whole place.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/whiplash-getting-jazz-right-movies
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We were in Reno while Baltimore was being filmed.
I’d have to talk to my business partner, but I think we agreed that we were taking the money away considering the scummery around playing a 5,700 yard, 66 rated course.
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Please tell me scummery is a real word. Either way, I’m using it forever starting now.
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ED has been typing for about 30 min. Happy New Year everyone!
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