{"id":3029,"date":"2020-05-21T11:27:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2020-06-10T23:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T23:46:34","slug":"seminole-golf-club-story-how-one-word-opened-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/golf\/3029\/seminole-golf-club-story-how-one-word-opened-the-door","title":{"rendered":"Seminole Golf Club story: How one word opened the door"},"content":{"rendered":"\"img_6987\"<\/a>\n

The TaylorMade Driving Relief Skins Match at Seminole Golf Club:<\/b> Of course, I watched the Sunday telecast on NBC-TV featuring Rory Mcllroy, Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler, and Matthew Wolff. The golf wasn\u2019t the best early on but it was refreshing to see elite Tour players hitting shots, wearing shorts, carrying their own bags and using yardage finders. Just like us except for the \u201celite Tour players\u201d part. Naturally, the venue\u2014the ultra-private Seminole GC designed by Donald Ross\u2014was also a draw. I liked seeing how renovations have nicely opened up the classic layout, allowing more oceans views and course vistas.<\/p>\n

And I loved the bantering between Ann Arbor\u2019s Mike Tirico, a Barton Hills member, and the incomparable Bill Murray. Finally, the monies raised went to worthy and timely causes.<\/p>\n

It all served to remind me about my favorite Seminole story. In the \u201890s, my brother Tim\u2014thankfully afflicted with a most humorous bent\u2014was once part of a foursome of Grand Rapids golfers invited to play the storied club in Juno Beach, FL. Guests of a GR-based member, the club allowed only one unaccompanied foursome per day. With an 8:30 am tee time, the foursome in one car arrived at the club an hour beforehand.<\/p>\n

Their car was met outside the clubhouse by a staff member who gruffly announced to the driver, \u201cThe club doesn\u2019t open until 8:00 so you\u2019ll have to leave the property now<\/i> and come back.\u201d Without any argument, they departed and sat in a nearby parking lot for a half hour.<\/p>\n

Then at 8:00, they drove thru the front entrance and once again stopped at the clubhouse where the same staffer was standing, waiting for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood morning gentleman, welcome to Seminole!\u201d They could hardly believe it was same guy.<\/p>\n

After pointing out directions to the locker room where they could change their shoes, he noticed one of my brother\u2019s friends was not carrying a shoe bag.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSir, where are your golf shoes?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m wearing them, they\u2019re soft spikes,\u201d replied the golfer.<\/p>\n

\u201cSir, at Seminole you must have street shoes and then change into your golf shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I can\u2019t because I only brought the shoes I\u2019m wearing.\u201d<\/p>\n

At an impasse, my brother broke the tension by asking the attendant:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is the cobbler\u2019s shop located at Seminole? Surely, he can make him a pair of street shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cobbler\u2019s shop?<\/i><\/p>\n

Amid the chuckles and suppressed laughter, the befuddled staffer relented and the foursome headed to the locker room.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The word \u201cSeminole\u201d carries a lot of clout in certain golf circles. But it\u2019s no match against \u201ccobbler.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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