History was inexorably altered by myself and Josh Peters. Pinehurst #2. This legendary golf course has been home to 88 years of major championships of various kinds, won by a Hall of Fame of sixteen superstars.
This amazing place was restored by Coore/Crenshaw and an army of workers in 2010 to the original 1907 Donald Ross design. $2.5 million, touching every golf hole.
Ironically, the new Design was to save 40,000,000 gallons of water every year.
As Joshua and I teed off and journeyed with our caddies the 340 yards, more or less 😎, to our opening drives, we noticed an unexpected waft of smoke drifting out of the pine forest alongside of the fairway.
Beyond belief. The group in front of us had apparently thrown a cigarette, still burning, into the pine needles alongside of the fairway. At the speed the flames were spreading, it could not have been on fire for more than 10 minutes when we spotted it.
Apparently Dri-Fit (TM) golf spikes are not only waterproof, but also fireproof (if one keeps moving quickly enough). I don’t know why they leave that off of their Dri-Fit (TM) advertising.
I sent the original photo of our “tap dance fire brigade,” with Joshua and our caddies, to a famous Golf journalist at Golf Week Magazine. He “smothered“ the story, as apparently Pinehurst was not crazy about the near-catastrophic event being public just a few weeks before their 2011 Grand Re-Opening.
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