Burro Creek Pilots Quaint, Quirky
and Quintessential Golf Show
During my tenure as a golf travel writer for Golf Magazine, in the 80s and 90s, I was having a great time, but there was one frustration. Golf in national golf publications is all about big resorts, must play golf architectrual ego trips and tired rehashes of the same basic style of property--big, over-designed and, frankly, not very interesting.
I can't tell you how many times I drove by little country layouts, where there were at least one or two quirky holes; the locals took pride in their course; and/or there was some history that was really worth hearing about. I tried to get the editors to let me do a piece now and then on places like Jack Stallings North Star club up in Fairbanks--the oil man built it by hand. No way, they said. They didn't think anybody cared about the 11-hole golf course in Gilroy, California; or about the architect who left the plans with the contractor for the Kingman, Arizona, course and came back to find one hole upside down from his plan. Three Rivers, California, has a hole with a 180-degree dogleg. You get the idea.
We're visiting courses like these and any others that look like there is an interesting story. We're talking to the people who know the history and who play and love these quirky, qaint and quinessential golf courses. If you love the game, it's just plain fun.
The first pilot episode will be ready for screening by distributors in December 2010.
