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  1. We should all be getting our rejections here in the next few days ….while we wait for the inevitable, here’s a little ANGC history Highest standards applied even as Roberts took his life At Augusta, even the suicides have to be perfect. Clifford Roberts was the image-maker, the co-founder of the club, who liked everything so neat and tidy that it contrasted with reality. He walked out on to the course, pulled a revolver and killed himself, but not before visiting the clubhouse barber for a haircut. The location was perfect. Roberts, 84, his short back and sides as prim as the greens, knew where he could turn the gun on himself with the minimum of fuss. By firing on the par-three course beside a pond, he ensured that he ended it all in the easiest place for his staff to clean up afterwards. The choice of weapon was also perfect. The Smith & Wesson .38 had enough kick to do the job, but not enough to disfigure totally. His ashes were scattered or buried on the course at an undisclosed location. Roberts, who was suffering from terminal cancer, had the death he wanted some time after 3am on Sept 29, 1977. That is fact. The conjecture is over why he did it. There is talk - dark whispers that still convince the caddies at Augusta and a number of the members - that the tycoon who many hated was murdered. Perhaps the truth lay in Roberts's complicated, uneasy relationship with Bobby Jones, his co-founder, friend, and the kid who had won everything. Roberts and Jones had created their vision of a flawless golf club and a tournament to top that, the US Masters. It seemed like good synergy. Jones, who had hinted that he wanted to build a golf course, provided a name and credibility. Roberts, who took the hint, provided cold-eyed business sense and a fortune made on Wall Street. Roberts bought the nursery property from a Belgian aristocrat and started to forge a club - and the faked, instant traditions Americans love. The first Masters teed off 70 years ago. Roberts, the chairman until his death, ran the place as though it was an autocracy. He was a dogmatic, ruthless, cold and unforgiving despot. Sam Snead once remarked: "Cliff was a tough bastard, but you have to be to run that place. The caddies think his death was a murder, not a suicide, and I believe them." While Roberts ran the show (he once filmed himself walking on water by building a bridge just beneath the surface), he was a secretive figure. Jones may have been a figurehead president but he was also the name on which the tournament was sold. Roberts had to go around telling everyone that this was Jones's tournament. He resented Jones for that. There was a huge emotional struggle behind that Roberts carapace of law, order and thin smiles. One of the straight-to-sepia traditions was that Jones would present the green jacket to the winner. It was all so telegenic until in the final years of Jones's life his spinal disease left him in a wheelchair, struggling even to lift cigarettes to his mouth. Jones had been a phenomenon. Regarded by many as the greatest talent of all time, he remains the only golfer to achieve a clean, calendar sweep of the sport's four majors. He was also a myth-maker, retiring just months after his Grand Slam at the age of 28. Jones had started with sawn-off clubs at the age of six. At 11, he returned an 80, and such was the expectation that when he had not won everything in sight by the age of 20, he was called a failure. "I was full of pie, ice-cream and inexperience," Jones said. "To me, golf was just a game to beat someone. I didn't know that someone was me." The absurdly good-looking Jones remained an amateur, and was so popular that he is still the only man to have had two ticker-tape parades through the streets of New York. Yet despite all this, for Roberts image was everything. What was the point of fussing over and sanitising the rest of the Masters tournament if, with Jones in a wheelchair, the prize-giving became a poor reflection on the club? So Roberts banned his friend from the jacket ceremony, but implied - through the CBS television executive who was dispatched to pass on the news - that the network was behind the decision. It is questionable whether Jones believed any of this. Perhaps Roberts, on the morning of his death, was feeling guilty over the way he had treated his friend. Indeed, the Jones family were so disgusted by the CBS incident that they did not invite Roberts to Bobby's funeral in 1971. Some believe that Roberts killed himself - as his mother had done when he was 19 - because of the cancer and a stroke that made him a virtual recluse in his clubhouse apartment. Roberts's planning was perfect. He bought a fresh pair of pyjamas, which he would wear underneath trenchcoat and trousers. A note of apology to his wife was pinned to the doctor's prognosis. He asked a guard how to operate the revolver, saying he had heard noises outside his apartment. The next morning at around 8am his body was found. It had tumbled neatly into the pond.
  2. can I ask you for more info, what you did, what you liked, specifically and how you did it
  3. Sammy’s birthday bash in Cabo. WINNER!
  4. I've been all over France and the least favorite place I went was.....Paris. Most favorite: anywhere along the south of France from Nimes to Cassis (about to test that theory from Cannes to Cinque Terre) to answer your question, take the train (with champagne, snacks and a deck of cards) spend a night or two in Normandy, specifically Bayeux (Hôtel Reine Mathilde) there are fantastic restaurants like La Rapière gotta give it two days, a day trip is not enough, this guide is absolutely 5 star https://alliedvictorytours.com/
  5. Took a while, but I got the call
  6. Tomatoes from garden purple basil from herb garden
  7. I greatly appreciate this report sir. We are doing Nice 4 nights, Cinque Terre 4 nights, then Sanremo one night and Nice again the last night.
  8. I could not be more aligned, bought-in, every day, accountable, high GPA, draftworthy, team first, leader, vulnerable, positionless, we not me, come from a good family and culture Wednesdayed than I am right now.
  9. Acho looks like Dig Dug with those glasses
  10. bring cash and exchange there
  11. There is a money exchange directly across the street from the ferry, it’s in a little booth outside a store, it has a good exchange rate just go all the way outside and look for the pillar with a C on it. They’re usually right there.
  12. Nice pre-Ryder Cup flex
  13. I forgot about Abuelos, that's a good spot too
  14. Absolutely. Wahoo Slayer. We caught wahoo and tuna. spin - cast right, reel left bait - cast both, reel right Your captain and drone operator deserve a medal, that is fantastic
  15. yeah I'm doing Antibes and Eze for sure, Saint Tropez, then San Remo, Italy and thinking about taking the train to Cinque Terre for a few days
  16. north to south should be around $10 restaurants - south Bastos, middle Rosa Sirena, barrio El Varadero, north Mahache or Javi's the day they have the show (Thursday?), North Garden/Grill Garden happy hour - rooftop of Hotel Secreto, trust me here bro be there an hour before sunset beach club - Palapa Leidy (ask for Kenji, tell him his best friend from Austin sent you) massages there too the Joint is overpriced meh now, go to Borracho Burro
  17. I've eaten oysters in Bayeux, France (Normandy). I've eaten oysters at Hog Island many times. Love the kumamotos. I've eaten oysters in Portland, Maine. I'll be eating oysters in Portland, Oregon starting tomorrow from Cannon Beach to Hood River. I ate oysters at Perla's on Tuesday and Clark's on Friday. Last month I ate oysters at Acme and Royal House.
  18. if we are just talking about home defense (no carry) get granny a basic S&W 686 revolver and load it with 38SPL Hornady Critical Defense Lite and she'll have no trouble shooting it a light revolver with a 2 inch barrel (like an S&W airweight) might offend granny's senses
  19. red head/white body one knocker spook, mansfield knocker topwater, marker 212 rig, white gulp shrimp/cajun thunder
  20. What I picked this morning
  21. Love to hear about Nice when you return. I've got a trip there in August. Will spend a few days there and then I'm wide open on what to do. No limits, just have to be back in Nice 10 days later. Head east along the coastline into Italy towards Genoa? up to Switzerland? Anyone have suggestions?
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  23. I batted for the cycle on Sunday with a rat snake, two red ears, a spotted whiptail, house gecko, and a leopard frog. And I wasn't even looking for them.
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