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And who’s your dream fantasy golf foursome? My friend Clif was kind enough to invite a group of us to his place at Suncadia a couple of weekends ago for a little golf, a little poker, some fine dining, and a lot of what to the untrained eye might have looked like sitting around engaged in idle chatter, which, in reality, was a series of high-level intellectual exercises. For example, one afternoon our task was to name our fantasy golf foursome. Not surprisingly, some of the guys said they’d like to play a round with some of golf ’s legends – Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and Arnold Palmer. Others opted for a foursome including people with a slightly less elevated con-
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nection to the game of golf such as Bill M u r r a y, R o b i n Williams and Clint Eastwood. Some saw the fantasy foursome concept as a potential learning opportunity, and picked Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Alan Mullaly. At least one person who shall remain nameless (Rick Torseth) went an entirely different direction and picked Sean Connery, Penelope
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Cruz and the Dali Lama. Hard to argue that wouldn’t be an interesting round of golf. Barack Obama got at least one vote, which may be one more than he gets in the 2012 election. Later in the evening, after dinner but before the traditional 2-club Whiskey Nine Round, we expanded the rules of Fantasy Golf to include not just actual living human beings, but historical figures. Did I mention that there was wine associated with dinner? Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and brother Robert, Bing Crosby, Jackie Gleason and Winston Churchill all got votes under these expanded rules, which is interesting in Churchill’s case since The Great One alternately described golf as either an expensive game of marbles or akin to chas-
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ing a quinine pill through a pasture. Musicians were a popular choice as well, with Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett and Ray Charles all garnering votes. To our credit, we unanimously agreed that if we were playing with Ray Charles and he had to make a short putt to win the match, none of us would intentionally tell him we thought his putt would break left when we thought it was actually going to break right. At some point the game drifted off its admittedly fragile moorings, and we began to identify categories of possible Fantasy Foursome. For example, who would you pick if you had to select your foursome from among the starting line up of the 1965 San Francisco Giants? (That one was actually pretty easy – Willie Mays,
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