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Wonder if the people that bought the old Sherwood CC have any interest or ability to open up 9 holes.

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I would love for someone or BREC to purchase the golf portion of the Sherwood property.

Emailed the commissioners about the pedestrian loop that Sasaki is proposing that runs directly behind and next to fairways and greens, which is obviously impractical and dangerous. A perfectly good buffer already exists with the mature oak trees on the edges of the park to complete a dedicated walking/running/biking loop on E. Lakeshore, as people (myself included) already use E. Lakeshore as a pedestrian route extensively. Leads me to believe that Sasaki is incredibly naive about golf and City Park specifically.

No reply back after a day and a half as of yet.

Getting ice over here near Sherwood. It's 45 degrees. This is some of the most bizarre weather I've ever seen.

Would love if someone could record and upload a video of the meeting, considering it looks like there might not be video for this one.

My mortgage company (Regions) carried over the wrong amount from one escrow statement to the next and poofed $3000 of my own money away out of nowhere. Because escrow is self-correcting, I only caught it after reverse-engineering the statements, and it took escalating 3 levels for someone to understand/admit they messed up.

Banks and mortgage companies have no consequences when they're only screwing over the little guy.

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More like shrinking it to a third of the playable area, i.e., holes 2 and 3.

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Replacing a full 9 holes with pitch-and-putt is like replacing a tennis court with pickleball, or a baseball field with a wiffleball field, and telling players it's the same sport because they can still swing a racket or a bat.

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Thank you. I am on a five hour ride to TX tomorrow. I’ll shoot some emails out to them, the metro council, and maybe the local state rep.

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Back in October, I made my voice heard and sent an email advocating for keeping the current course footprint during the voting session. Commissioner Polito, who from the start has been pushing for heavy BRAF involvement and a full revamp replied back, proclaimed innocence and asked where I saw that the proposal would involve doing anything to the golf course. I then called out what was obvious among other things, that certain individuals and organizations have wanted to remove or substantially shrink the course for decades now, and letting BRAF solely lead the effort could open the door to excluding any meaningful input from the golfers in the community of which there are many. A different commissioner who voted no to BRAF replied, thanking me for my input.

I'm curious what they reply to you this time.

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There's a USGA limit to this and every driver released in recent history is at that limit.

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To back this up, I bought a Ping G30 back in 2014 that I've been trying to get rid of for the past 5 years now. I'll go to Edwin Watts each year and test it against the new drivers, and the G30 still has similar (or even better in some cases) numbers with a tighter dispersion than the newest models. The simulator says I'm in the 165 range for ball speed no matter which driver I hit, including the G30, which should be plenty to see technology improvements.

There's a case to be made that the face has been broken in making it slightly more springy and that I've become accustomed to the shaft, but I'm not dropping $600 on a driver until I find one that outperforms it.

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Take a look anyway. The worst that can happen is they say no.

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I don't know how we got here, but I'm content with my life at the moment, and it wouldn't be worth it for us to move away from grandparents/family to Huntsville of all places to start a 3rd career at the bottom of the food chain again, especially with kids in the near/immediate future.