Top 10 Things not to do when restoring your golf course
Never listen to an architect who tells you that he's seen the pros hit the ball a mile and therefore you need a couple of 498-yard par fours on your classic Stanley Thompson/Tillinghast/Ross course. I'll put money on it that not a
Do two golf courses cost $40M? Apparently not
Bondhead15 1 2. Yesterday I discussed an article that I'd read on Bond Head, the ambitious 36 hole facility located north of Toronto. I really tapped into the final segment that accompanied the story that listed the club as costing $40
Mom and Pop Golf Pt. 2
Want to know what "mom and pop" golf gone bad looks like? It looks like this:. Momandpop1 1Decaying Mom and Pop Golf pt.1 (Photos courtesy of Rocknronny of Torontogolfnuts.com). Momandpop2 1More of the same
Wanted: Public golf course reviewer for Ontgolf.ca!
That's right -- Ontgolf.ca is launching our own "man on the street" component to the site next year, one we are calling "Weekend Hacker." The concept is simple -- we're looking for a public golfer who regularly plays courses that cost
What $40 million buys
So what can you get for $40 million? Maybe Vernon Wells under contract for three years? An endorsement deal with Tiger? Or you could build yourself a 36 hole golf course 45 minutes north of Toronto. The site Golf Course News has an
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus 2006
Meanwhile, Robert Downey, Jr. spending 95% of the time completely invisible behind mountains of hairy, Chewbacca-like fur, brings forth his own unique beauty in the role of a man who has lived his life doubly hidden unable to see his
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly in 2006
I'm an occasional reader and poster at Toronto Golf Nuts, and today someone posted a subject called "The Good and the Bad in 06." That led me to thinking about my own personal good, bad and ugly involving golf over the course of the
STGEC 2006 presentations posted
We have posted Adobe PDF handout versions of the presentations made by Dan, Steve, and Robert at the recent 2006 Southeastern Transportation Geotechnical Engineering Conference in Florence, Alabama. Dan spoke about high performance
Link to Geotechnical Virtual Library
The Magazine has some interesting areas, including a Geotechnical Hall of Fame. We plan to add other resource links as we find them or they find us! Robert. Technorati : Enginering Research, Foundations, Geotechnical Engineering,
2006 Technical Papers
Brown, DA, Thompson, WR, and Nichols, S., 2006. “Performance Specifications for Drilled Piles,” Proc. of 10th International Conference on Deep Foundations, Amsterdam. Performance Specifications for Drilled Piles - DFI 10th Int Conf
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