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Strategies & Market Trends : Trading the SPOOs with Patrick Slevin!
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To: wlheatmoon who wrote (6199)7/31/2000 2:22:57 AM
From: Patrick Slevin  Read Replies (1) of 7434
 
I recall, some years back, a business magazine (perhaps Forbes) guessed that if they could find people who were members of three clubs, Augusta, Pine Valley and one other (I forget that one, another high end club) then they would have a group of the most wealthy and influential people.

Thing was the best they could do was to find perhaps a half a dozen that were members of two of the three clubs. Pine Valley is so out of the way it isn't surprising that most members are not from around there, it's more of a status course than a local private club. Oddly, I played a course around Princeton that has several Pine Valley members. I think it's name is Bedens Brook. One of those courses that gets absolutely no play. Place is in pristine shape, but evidently the members are so busy making money they don't bother to hit the links much at all.

<The amazing thing about shooting 86 and having 5 three-putts is that scoring an 86 versus an 81 is a HUGE difference in the psyche.>

Yeah. A month or so ago I played the front 9 even par;

Now you would think the mooks that I was with would lay off. Sort of like not talking to a pitcher throwing a no hitter. Nope. Hassled me the rest of the way and I lucked into a par on 18 to shoot 80. The game is so mentally challenging one would think someone like me would have the sense to quit trying but I'm still there, tearing my hair out each week.

You know, one of the guys I was with that day is a rulz nut. I was in the trees on one hole and practiced my swing so that I would not hit a leaf on a tree....'couse that's a stoke by a strict interpretation. So I finally go into the swing, clip a leaf (of course) and hesitated for an instant. Completed the swing anyway and scrambled for par. I recall that shot more clearly than the three or four birdies I had.

Strange game. That guy actually took it up with the pro that I should be charged a shot anyway....he figured that by knocking a leaf off the branch I was "clearing a path". That's what I get for hanging around with guys from the AMEX. OTC traders and loan sharks are more forgiving than those guys.
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