80 Years of Golf Bliss
by Chip-a-bration
It has been said the fine line between genius and insanity is, the knowledge of when to press and then to double down. Take our club's founding fathers, for example, and their roll of the dice in 1933. This was the worst year of the depression. Unemployment was at twenty five percent, shoeless Oakies were flooding into the state by the truck load, and they decided to start a golf club. Pure Genius.
Well some people saw it differently. Local school boards featured us in a campaign to keep kids in school. Their slogan, "Don't be like those golf idiots, get an education," was popular on the Peninsula for years. The club, coincidently, began to propser with the repeal of prohibition. One old timer who wished to remain nameless, mainly because he couldn't remember his said, "It was heaven back then. You had drunken unemployed stiffs who were willing to bet on everything. You had to be a hack not to fleece those guys.
These are the very principals this club was founded on. Over the decades we have survived a world war, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Nixon, the pet rock and silly putty. We have weathered scandals and handicap investigations better than all democratic presidential nominees except Clinton. He was the best. We have been fashionably innovative and morally lax for eighty years.
Who could ever forget the year Cabo Nick brought an "entertainer" to the Christmas Party and her very creative way of doing the "hustle". Rumors still abound the club that she clipped Steve O and three others for $100 apiece. Where else, but our club, would characters like Big Al, Ray Yo, Baby Doll, Moose, Woody, Samoan Joe, The Commish, Stick and all the others be welcomed and revered?
Some snooty country clubbers say we have a zero admission standards and will let just about anyone join. "I hope that they are right. I wouldn't trade even one of my ex-felons for ten of their members, no matter how much the dues are needed," said an ex-club president currenly doing three to five.
Congratulations Gang on 80 Great Years.