Local Public 18-Hole Golf Courses

For my own reference:

Course Place Minutes to

• Stonehedges Golf Course Groton 16
• Hillendale Golf Course Ithaca 24
• Trumansburg Golf Club Trumansburg 32
• Catatonk Golf Club Candor 47
• Maple Hill Golf Club Marathon 47
• Grandview Farms Golf Course Berkshire 49
• Soaring Eagles Golf Course Horseheads 51
• Mark Twain Golf Course Elmira 54
• Ford Hill Country Club Whitney Point 55
• Willowcreek Golf Club Big Flats 57
• The Club at Shepherd Hills Waverly 62
• Tomasso's Golf Course Waverly 64
• Endwell Greens Golf Club Endwell 65
• Links at Hiawatha Landing Apalachin 66
• Tioga Country Club Nichols 66
• En-Joie Golf Club Endicott 68
• Genegantslet Golf Club Greene 70
• Indian Hills Golf Club Painted Post 70
• Traditions at the Glen Johnson City 71
• Apalachin Golf Course Apalachin 72
• Ely Park Golf Course Binghamton 72
• Dimmock Hill Golf Course Binghamton 73
• Canasawacta Golf Course Norwich 77
• Conklin Players Club Conklin 78
• Belden Hill Golf Club Belden 79
• Vestal Hills Country Club Vestal 79
• Blue Stone Golf Course Oxford 83
• Golden Oak Golf Club Windsor 83
• Corey Creek Golf Club Mansfield PA 89
• Towanda Country Club Towanda PA 90

White House West

Architectural Digest has a feature on the Bush Ranch outside of Crawford Texas.  I noticed when viewing the satellite photos of the place that W. has a single golf hole there, approachable from opposite directions.  See it?

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Kaymer's Card

Shot 65 not once, but twice in a row.

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Most of Society Is Not Moving Up

A great New Normal piece, Golf Market Stuck in Bunker as Thousands Leave the Sport:

Once the go-to activity for corporate bonding, the sport is suffering from an exodus of players, a lack of interest among millennials and the mass closure of courses. ... About 400,000 players left the sport last year ... 'It’s a pretty high-price sport, and leisure time is getting crunched.' ... [Callaway] hasn’t reported an annual profit since 2008. ... 200,000 players under 35 abandoned the game last year. ... Only 14 new courses were built in the U.S. last year, while almost 160 shut down. ... 'Everybody’s hooked up to their handhelds, so it’s social networking instead of sports ... It’s something that’s associated with boom times. Most of society’s not moving up, and golf is associated with moving up.'

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The great leveling ... standard of living on the decline in the US as it rises in Asia.