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HouTex

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  1. Damn. Can’t even see Fowler’s ball in the rough. Hope he doesn’t whiff.
  2. A great leaderboard, except maybe for Clark—just because I haven’t really followed him, seems like a decent guy. I’m happy with any of the leaders winning this.
  3. Yes, I get the point. I don’t particularly care about the gallery. I just want to see good golf. The course played easier this week for a couple of reasons but it’s still a great venue. I’m loving it.
  4. The course is awesome. It’s on a lot of top 20 in the country lists. It’s a great club too. They rarely, if ever, let in entertainment industry people. That’s a huge plus. It’s a bunch of lawyers, doctors, bankers, etc., that love golf. I was fortunate to play it in 2016 and it’s an amazing place.
  5. This. SNPA is still my favorite ale. Just the right weight and bitterness.
  6. Different tax structure than Texas and some other states. Property taxes in California are relatively low. The better country clubs in Houston, for example, pay around $1 million or more per year in property taxes on a value that's probably less than 5% of the value of LACC. So it's apples and oranges.
  7. I haven’t seen it in a while so not sure if they continued making it after the Japanese bought it, but Liberty Ale used to be amazing.
  8. I like it as well. Yeh, the cops should have found the little dipshit brother much sooner. He was hiding a block away from the abandoned stolen Benz in a boat with blood clearly visible on the plastic cover. My big take away is the number of people who recognized one or both of the terrorists and fucking did nothing. Fuck them. The MIT campus cop might not have been killed had someone called the FBI. And fuck the roommates who actually impeded the investigation. Glad they did some time.
  9. I know a guy who was, stress was, a catfish farmer. His pond was about 20 miles inland in Brazoria County. After several years of success, pelicans found his farm and a neighbor’s farm. They ate every last one of the catfish. He said they came in like a squadron of Japanese zeros. The neighbor spent some time in the big house after shooting a few trying to protect his inventory.
  10. Just read some article a day or two ago by some special shark expert saying that sharks are misunderstood. He said there only about 5 shark related deaths a year in the world. Imagine the odds of getting one on video.
  11. The Few. A great book. There may be other books on this as well.
  12. Killing the journalist is one thing, but it’s another to say the Saudi government backed or funded 9/11. Read the Wiki about the official 2004 9/11 report (no evidence of Saudi government involvement) and what subsequent investigations have come up with. It’s by no means clear that the Saudi government had a hand in funding or assisting the 9/11 terrorists. Yeh, I get the Surly tradition of hyperbole. All Baylor folks are rapists and all aggies are sheep fuckers.
  13. But the Saudi blood money!!!! This is hilarious. Corporate America is all over Saudi Arabia (GM, Ford, Starbucks, Dominos, Pepsi, defense contractors, etc.) but you catch shit if you partner with them over a golf deal. Politics 101--demonize your enemy/competitor until you have to make a deal then you get in bed with them for some greater cause. Before the LIV players all declare victory, the letter from Jay says that it remains to be decided how the LIV players are re-integrated into the PGA Tour. That could go several different ways.
  14. Brandel Chamblee must be in a coma, or maybe his head actually exploded.
  15. So are you sure it’s gout? That happened to me last year, but it was my little toe. Gout can attack there too. Turns out that I stubbed it and I didn’t remember—adult beverages were involved. My toe was broken which is much better than having gout.
  16. No doubt, though my beta is getting better. I’ve shot one 95 in the last six months and my last 20 rounds range from 77 to 90 with an average score of 84. My lowest round ever was a 76 in Colorado at altitude. It shows you how rare it is for a guy with a 10 course handicap to shoot 4 or 5 under net.
  17. As you would expect, nearly all Americans have antibodies. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-06-01/cdc-study-nearly-all-americans-had-some-level-of-covid-19-immunity-by-last-fall#:~:text=Home-,CDC Study%3A Nearly All Americans Had Some Level of COVID,vaccination%2C infection or hybrid immunity.
  18. Shot a 79 (net -3) yesterday in a medal play event. Won my net division flight. My index is now 7.9 the lowest it’s ever been. I’ll be 61 in two months and I’ve never hit it better and farther. Gotta love this game.
  19. HouTex

    Getting old sucks

    Re: the 105 year old guy, is there an age limit to such surgeries? Maybe it depends on the individual. My father was basically falling apart before he passed a couple of years ago at 91. His heart was failing and the docs basically told us he wasn’t a candidate for surgery or replacement. The family was ok with that. He was suffering from many ailments, including Parkinson’s, so we didn’t want to prolong a shitty existence.
  20. You must not be a golfer. Daily fee courses would get killed too. Except for the few munis in the state, golf in Texas would pretty much go away without the green belt reduction. Our property tax system is out of hand.
  21. You mean River Oaks Country Club? It most certainly pays property taxes, but it gets a green belt reduction for much of the land (the golf course). Country clubs still pay property tax on the assessed value of their structures and non-green belt land. For most big city Texas country clubs, they wouldn’t exist without the green belt reduction.
  22. Tons of videos online. Just google dry wall repair. Very easy to do. I can’t tell from your picture whether you need to fill in the area with a strip of dry wall and then tape and float it with spackle or whether you can just fill it in with spackle and then sand and paint.
  23. There’s also a difference between the PGA Tour and the PGA of America. The latter puts on the PGA Championship and it has its own qualifying rules. If a LIV tour player qualifies for the PGA. Championship, or any other major, then they can play.
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