I wanna be a renowned golf architect like Pete Dye, Tom Fazio and everyone else who's ever designed a course

Be sure your course is challenging to low handicappers yet enjoyable for players of all skill levels.

Can they do that, BTuck!? Man, this new gig might be tougher than I thought.

Cut your lawn, stick a rake handle in the ground, and you're in the ASGCA, little Mark! Send your kid around the yard with a soda on his bike and you get extra points for vending.

Ron Mon, then you'd yell at Mark's kid for not getting the lemonade to you fast enough. Just like you attacked that defenseless cart girl.

I must admit I liked it better when BTuck was ordering the Castle Baron around though in the last blog. Don't go soft Tuck.

You're projecting again, chihuaha. Try not to let yourself get caught up in the emotion of the moment. If Mark's kid got to me before my sixteenth time around the lawn, he'd sell lots of lemonade.

I have first hand experience in dealing with so-called golf "architects" and let me tell you, it's a sweet gig. For the most part, the only real qualification I've found that one needs to attain this position is an interest in golf and getting to know someone who's putting up the money for a new course. Sure, some of them have knowledge of landscaping (or even a degree in it), but basically all they do is draw up holes on an ariel photo of some raw land and then get some kid who knows how to work CAD software to put his ideas down on paper. But breaking into this field is tough, mainly because the guys who are already in it keep it closed off to new comers. They are, for the most part, egomaniacial, insincere, prima donnas with a hugely over-inflated opinions of themselves. They honestly believe that the whole world should drop down and pay homage to them because they can plot out a few tee boxes, four hundred yards of fairway and a 3,000 square foot green.
Trust me on this; I have seen up close how these guys work and it ain't rocket science.

Cameron: To say that all golf course designers are egomaniacial, insincere, prima donnas is so stupid. I would really like to know what golf course architects you "know".