"There are some valid reasons why the large corporations stay away form social sites. In the case of LinkedIn, recently LinkedIn has been a magnet for businesses who are just out to fill an email database so they can promote some product or service that is of no interest to anyone, especially large corporations. This could be said for all social networks that are not controlled, but in the case of LinkedIn, who premise is to house a database of business people, it is a shame it has become such a draw for these email farmers since it is probably one of the only social networks that large firms would embrace as a tool to finding business connections and potential employees. Oh, the price we pay to be spammed."
- Scot Duke
"I really hope we don't see anymore Tweeting from the tee..geez..the pace of play is already slow enough. Can you image if we had to wait for everyone on the tee and fairway and greens to finish posting a tweet before we resume play. I can see it now where when the player signs in at the first tee for play he has to give the rules official his Twitter address so he can follow him while he plays to make sure he is not getting advice from a third party."
- Scot Duke
"Good points Vince, And thanks for your support. I have done a number of financial and psychological analysis on joining a private country club and find that I am sane to be a member of of a private golf club primarily due to how much I value my professional and personal time. I sent my time on the public links waiting on every shot and spending 6 hours for a round..I will stay with the private club four hour rounds, thank you. We do have a good chef and the food is pretty good, but the facility was built back when Donna Reed was a housewife. It needs to be bulldozed. I am seeing a large number of aged clubhouses in my travels and hear from their membership that is the number 1 deterrent to recruiting new or younger members to join the clubs. There are a number of options the private member own or the semi-private corporate owned country clubs can do, but they will need to hire none country club management background personal to reach new solutions. Good news is..the investors who are..."
- Scot Duke
To Wrap up Turn The Music Up Until Your Ears Bleed Happy Hour. This should get you in a Happy Hour Mood..have a great weekend.
- Scot Duke
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"Very good point. I agree. The new PGA policy is good for golf and will help the PGA enforce the withdraw many tour players make of sponsor hosted events. However, in defense of some of the tour pros who would be forced into the 'rubber chicken' sponsor affairs during the tournament event I would have to say that those guys are going to be put into some very awkward situations the tour players who play in the Pro-Ams are NOT. Five years ago I attended a Sponsor (I'll not mention the name of the sponsor for obvious reasons) event and Scott Gump was the only tour player in the room since the host was his sponsor. Out of the approximate 100 people in the room I was the ONLY GOLFER outside of Scott who was in the room. So naturally we talked, and talked, and talked. Most of the people in the room were employees forced to attend the function because the CEO (who did not attend the function because he was at the VIP function where the Big Tour Players were at) wanted them to have a good..."
- Scot Duke
"Whether Kim did what he said are not, this incident should serve notice on how these games are played. AK will be the leader of the pack one day I am sure and this trash talk builds men out of boys..so lets see what happens the next time these two meet."
- Scot Duke
"I don't think it is going to be that easy to find sponsors for PGA golf tournament and if the PGA does find a replacement to take Verizon's place I wonder what strings are going to be put into place by the new sponsor...like a Tiger Woods guarantee clause..humm.. ya think Finchem can put that in writing? He may have to."
- Scot Duke
"Bob, Yes, all you have mentioned is what I found when I drilled down into how country clubs are mismanaged. It looks from the tone of your message that you may have ventured off into reviewing the CCA sell to KSL since most of the items you listed run as their mode of operation. If this is the case I hope one day we get to meet so we can compare notes."
- Scot Duke