Hanse's "Picturesque" Landscape Comment

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I noticed on comments here and in other discussion threads that a few folks stumbled when reading Gil Hanse's press release reference to a "picturesque landscape" for the Rio Olympic course design. It was not a frilly reference to golf course theatrics, but in fact, an homage to an aesthetic approach to landscape design espoused by figures like Humphry Repton, John Ruskin and Frederick Law Olmsted, and an influential philosophy on golf architects Alister MacKenzie and C.B. Macdonald.

If interested, you can read up about the picturesque school at Wikipedia.

And as for that picturesque landscape, it might be easier to visualize the Hanse design for the site by looking at this overlay of map and aerial photo posted on Hanse's site.

Only In Golf Files: The Expandable ED Smuggling Bag

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Ryan Reilly with the report (thanks reader Blue Pill) of Kil Jun Lee, a 71-year-old former Korean law enforcement officer arrested for attempting to smuggle nearly 40,000 boner pills worth $700,000 in his golf bag.

Lee's arrest comes after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at LAX discovered more than $700,000 worth of phony erectile dysfunction pills in his luggage when he returned from a trip to Korea Feb. 25. Specifically, the criminal complaint states that Lee's luggage contained 29,827 counterfeit Viagra tablets, 8,993 counterfeit Cialis pills and 793 phony Levitra tablets, all concealed in aluminum foil wrapped packets. According to the complaint, when HSI agents at LAX questioned Lee about whether the medication was for his personal use, he said if he used all of the pills it would kill him because he had a heart condition.

At least he knows his limitations in one department!