2009 wish list

1) continued health for me and my family
2) no tragedy in our families
3) getting closer to being debt free
4) a successful start to my son's post graduate career (he needs to look outside of NY for work)
5) the money to fix what is wrong with our house (furnace, AC, doors, light switches, etc)
6) no major car issues (tired of $1000 repair bills)
7) solid golf scores (consistent with past years)
8) the money to play as much golf this summer as I have in the past (50+ rounds)
9) an under-par round of golf (reach for the stars)
10) job retention --- 26 years and counting
11) a return to 401K solvency (we all took a hit in 2008)
12) a president with a brain (he cannot be worse than W)

long time argument about rules and rulings

For those of you who have never seen this:

This is the infamous moveable object that about 10 people moved for Tiger Woods at the TPC in Scottsdale some years ago. As you can see it is quite a large object, resting ON the ground and seems to have put into in place so as to impede a player's play after missing the fairway. No, it is not half buried in the ground as a natural pebble, I mean rock, might be after millions of years of laying around.

I am the one in the yellow hat. If one's ball were to come to rest at my brother's feet and there were not 1000's of spectators around (there were none around when we played, go figure) to move the impeding pebble, I mean rock, the only shot would be to knock it sideways in either direction in order to avoid the pebble, I mean rock. You could not advance the ball towards the hole if your ball was near where my brother's feet are.

Do I get the same consideration that Tiger did if there is no one around to help me move the pebble, I mean rock? While I agree that the pebble, I mean rock, was not imbedded in the ground and clearly it had been placed there, but so had the nearby cactus, palm tree and water hazard. The water hazard was created to be part of the course as was the placement of the pebble, I mean rock and most of the cactus on a golf course were put there by the designer.

This is me, just griping about a pretty flimsy interpretation of the rules (in my opinion).