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Jack: Presidential Election Will Determine Recovery Of Stalled Golf Course Construction Industry
Art Stricklin reports that Jack and Barbara Nicklaus will make more appearances in Ohio for Mitt Romney leading up to the November 6, 2012 election.
Nicklaus told those gathered at the opening of his new Summit Rock course in Horseshoe Bay, Texas that the future of the golf course construction industry is dependent on the presidential election results.
"It all depends on who is elected next Tuesday," Nicklaus said Tuesday during the opening of Summit Rock, his new course in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, just west of Austin. "It will take longer if the wrong guy is elected."
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Reader Comments (47)
Man, I WANT to be GOP rich too, but VERY FEW PEOPLE ARE, and the desire to hang with the 1% has thrown so many good people into making such sad choices--- the DEMs are not doing it right either, and O has been handed a shitstorm--- but REALLY? McCAIN!!!???!!! would have deepened the hole, and escalated both wars, sent more kids home in a box, and then dropped dead, and effing Sarah Palin would have had to man up and read a newspaper, because SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT- another case of the GOP's ''style over substance'' method of nomination.
Read about the Bushes, who learned how to ''win'', but not legislate- Romney is another Trojan Horse.
Jack , your political advise is right there with your ability to make good greens: you have lost touch with reality.
Never stood up for anything but himself it seems.
Plenty of issues of social consequence when he was playing and not a peep.
Go away Jack
Viz I know you don't really care but At least my sister will not be denied health care thus keeping my entire family from losing our wealth. Go Obamacare! Sorry Viz for those death panels Palin used to talk about maybe Ryan will send you a voucher!!
I'm reminded of the thought bubble that goes over KP's head in this picture:
http://www.golf.com/photos/final-round-memorial-tournament/kenny-perry-jack-nicklaus-memorial
"Yeah, whatever, Jack. But when I built a golf course in my hometown, the locals could play it. And afford it."
Obviously his line of clubs haven't been a smashing success.
I have played Horseshoe Bay many times, and always looked forward to playing in the Horseshoe Bay Invitational, over the 3 courses there, in 3 days....Well I assumed that we would be invited to a 4 day tourney now, with a round over each course- but the new ''Nicklaus'' course has a ''separate initiation fee'' and an increased monthly fee, and, at that time, was not going to be a part of the tournament ( I have been ill and not played for the last couple of years) So this course and the public course in LAREDO, home of death on a stick, are the only 2 courses being built in America a few months ago (I don't know, now)
Jack, you got yours, and everyone elses too. If Romney is elected are you saying you will carry on, with new tracks and greens that are designed by, I don't know, kids sending in drawings? STFU, Jack.
Statements like this, no matter your political bent, just seem so reductive. Self serving if you're being cynical and naive if you're not.
Lose lose.
Sorry to inform you of this, Jack, but your "wrong" guy is gonna win. Have fun playing with the grandkids for the next 4 years.
JJ - you must mean that us shack-ites don't know golf, because many of us understand that the effort of the neo-cons over the last 40 years (Louis Powell memo of 1971) led us to where we are today with the neutering of the New Deal and massive deregulation, er free market capitalism. Am I better off than I was 4 years ago? No, I am not, but what a bad question. Not better than 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22 years ago, ad nauseum. You know, we didn't build too many courses between 1929 and 1955.
Has not the GOP taken over the house, senate, and judicial branch to block every attempt at progressive reform since 2010? Have they not completely hog-tied Dodd-Frank? Didn't Newt and his fellow pledging GOPers repeal Glass-Steagall in 1999?
GOP former gov/pres candidate Tim Pawlenty ('wall street pigs need to get their snouts out of the trough') is now the CEO of the biggest banks' collective lobby ('roundtable'). And why do people vote against their own interests? And how can a woman vote GOPwhen the party doesn't support their human rights? And remember, vulture capitalists are never job creators.
So, let's bring in this job creator who makes money/paper by vulturing vulnerable small businesses, stripping/liquidating their assets, laying off employees, taking jobs overseas, hiding profits overseas, and sometimes using cheap federal funds in doing so. Then we can return to some short term glory days which will culminate in another collapse. Meanwhile, poor Jack and his associates/grandkids will have collected some more ludicrous design fees for unplayable/unmaintainable courses that will be BK after their first ten years (thats right Angeles National, I will not have dropped $175 to see your routing).
I've worked for small businesses all my (working) life, and they generally remain small and stay lean. Guess what that means? Very low job growth. And any periods of growth are generally followed by periods of shrinkage. We are most concerned with producing profit. And in order for large profits, somebody is getting hurt on the other end.
C'mon LA man be fair.
He's an expert on one thing- winning 18 majors .
Those 0's are not golf balls, or holes, or strokes recorded in a year around the world.
That will be the national debt at the end of the blamer-in-chief's tenure, of which he will have contributed HALF of that. My son, who is not aged, wealthy, white, Christian, or conservative will be saddled with that burden. When will he have time to learn to love golf?
I voted for the blamer-in-chief and have lost all confidence in him. I apologize to my son for that mistake. Retire him to the golf course.
I couldn't care less what Jack says.
75% of the existing membership will be able to play a 7400 yard course? They must be good players.
But will Romney make the country better for millions of policemen, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and other hard-working middle and lower-income people who simply want affordable health care, a respectable retirement, and better education for their children? I'm one of them, and I'm not convinced.
"Many play golf, and one odd effect of that pursuit is that they return to work manifestly stupider than they were.
It is, I think, the company of other golfers." -- G.W. Lyttleton
To paraphrase George Burns, "in politics, consistency is everything. If you can fake that, you got it made."