Conference 7.286::golf

    although I don't care for him as a golfer...you gotta admire the
    way he plays..attacking everything in sight and scramble when he
    misses...shades of Arnold in his prime and alot more like us club\
    golfers...go for broke and scramble if you miss(which is most the
    time) no that kinda pro I can relate too....
    
    maybe more of em out there outa play like him...at least it spices
    up the rather boring tourneys a little bit...

    	There is an intersting article on Green in this months Golf
    Illustrated. Tells about how he opens the sliding glass door at
    his house and hits balls off his carpeting w/2 iron out the opening.
    Also once made a $5 bet @200-1 odds that he could hit a ball off
    a hotel bed thru a window and land said ball on a tent 150 yards
    away. He collected! Quite the character, I like him on the tour,
    not a stuffed shirt. 

    Actually, Ken Green was hitting a 3-wood through his living
    room sliding glass door. The incident with the tent was actually
    a five-iron off a motel room bed, through the open window, 170
    yards to land on a tent. He bet $5 at 100-to-1 odds and collected
    $500 from a friend on that one. Bought all the meals for the rest
    of the week though!! He really makes the last few holes interesting
    when ever he plays!!
    
    THE MAD HACKER

    	Oh well, I guess I forgot the  finer details, but I had the
    gist of the idea. Either way, quite a character!

    I like Ken Green too. At first he rubbed me the wrong way. For a while
    he and his caddy had a little thing going with Ken throwing his putter
    over his shoulder after putting and the caddy would catch it hopefully.
    I thought he was real cocky and still think he is a little but what the
    hell. Sometimes I think what the tour needs is a real nut out there.
    Someone who adds humor to the game. Everyone seems like a machine with
    no emotions. Guy's walk up the eighteenth with a three stroke lead and
    a 2 footer for bird and the most you get out of them is a casual wave.
    I can understand when the match is on the line the pressure must be
    incredable and a lapse in concentration could cost big time but when
    you have it in the bag cut loose. Jerry Pate jumped into the pond one
    year I thought that was nice. I wish someday when one of these guys
    come up the eighteenth with he match in the bag they would putt out with
    a Groucho Marks nose or a gorilla mask on or walk over to the crowd and
    give some the people the high five.
    
    What do you think?????
    
    Pete

    	Welllllllll, a gorilla mask may be a bit much, but I agree
    the tour needs more colorful players.

    Ken Green strikes me as being honest and upfront.  I like that.
    I understand he once mused that if rich amateur golfers really wanted
    to do something for charity, they should auction off tee times at
    their Augusta nationals, Cypress Points, etc.  Doubt it they liked
    that, but I heartily endorse that spirit.