Garlogie_Granite

Ballater 36er this weekend, one of my fave courses, weather looking good. Excited already, COGG!

aye, it's currently cycling and running that seem to be the flavour of the day

me too, my wedding day. fuck sakes. we beat hearts 4-0 in cup same day

Aye you're probably right, you're a fair bit older than me I think, but I seem to recall when I was little golf was viewed much like Bowls - "a game for aul' mannies" - it sure looks like it's going there again. Very sad.

Sorry, no, golf was not booming around 2000. And you've made my point perfectly regarding majors, SKY came along, started hoovering up torunaments, participation went down. Golf was booming in the 80s, at a time when locally we built Newmacher, Portlethen & Peterculter, and Alford, Newburgh, Oldmeldrum, Kintore, Kemnay & Insch went to 18 holes, and clubs had waiting lists everywhere. By 2000 the decline was well underway. I went to an SGU presentation about 5 years ago a large part of which was how were we to recover from the "lost generation" of golfers. The downward slide of active golfers since the mid-80s was clear, and in contrast to the boom in USA & rest of the world, which *was* Tiger driven.

Isn't it obvious?

...weeeeell, there's that "sport" initiated by the planting of pampas grass (allegedly)

Nope, you're missing the point. Kids ape what they see. Wimbledon is on, suddenly you see kids out in the street with tennis rackets. Golf used to have half a dozen ordinary tournaments, plus the 4 majors on BBC, and in the 80s the game boomed because of it, driven by the success of Lyle, Faldo, Woosie and the Ryder Cup teams. The timeline of decline coincides nicely with tournaments going to Sky, it's been great for the pros, especially in America, but for participation it's been horrific. Companies spend billions on marketing because it works, by accepting the short term Sky $$$, the R&A abdicated responsibility for the wellbeing of the game, probably because they are a bunch of old duffers with no idea about media presence and advertising.

Portlethen is lucky we have Westhill GC to stop it claiming the crown of worst golf course in the north east.

Rubbish. Only in America.

Absolutely totally and utterly agree. Blinkered clueless thinking from the R&A. "Oh we've got £10m, think what we can do with that" they parroted. Well unless it's to provide free golf for kids, fuck all mate.

They have tattoos?

Sorry, I already have copyright on "The Wiggy Dome" for the stadium. I'd call the bar "Tatties"

So very sad, I watched "the goal" last night, beer in hand, and quietly shed a tear outside in semi-darkness on my bench.

Farewell tour next year. My first ever album was Wild, Willing and the Innocent

For twice, ScotGov did the same for the Queensferry crossing. Any excess hits shareholders not taxpayers.

Get up earlier in morning then ya lazy coont Scraped my way through the whole winter, there was rarely a morning I wasn't out there de-icing

...or a bunch of plums?

Club say it's 55/45

Garlogie Galacticos

Did you even read what you've quoted there?

Proper stadiums, like we're building

What circular nonsense. It's all been said before, but for every toonser who can't bother their arse with that massive 6 miles trip from city centre, there's a teuchter (and a lot of toonsers tbf) for whom the new stadium will be a dream to get to/from by comparison to Pittodrie, and for whom the hassle (if your theory is to be believed) will have caused them to miss a few games during the Paterson, late Calderwood and McGhee eras.

You'll be missing out then, it'll be a shame for you, as there's nothing better than a modern fully enclosed stadium.