{"id":1909,"date":"2011-10-21T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T18:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tombedell.com\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2011-11-15T20:54:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T02:54:37","slug":"let-it-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/golf\/1909\/let-it-rain","title":{"rendered":"Pouring Down All Over Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Doak<\/p><\/div>\n

Here at The A Position we\u2019re given a topic to address (or not) each month for The A List feature, in a neat 150 words or so. The October challenge was inspired by Halloween, and we were asked to come up with treats or tricks–things we’re enamored with in our relationship with the game, or the mean-spirited opposite. We asked golf architect Tom Doak to chime in, and he offered a little of each.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to see what Tom Doak and my colleagues put into the sack–or if they pulled out the can of shaving cream and let fly.<\/p>\n

My contribution follows, if more about golf travel than the play itself.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s better than a massage? I\u2019m like the Will Rogers of massages: Having been through a worldwide menu of spa treatments, I\u2019ve never met one I didn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n

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A treatment room at the Sense Spa at CordeValle<\/p><\/div>\n

I should start ranking them like golf courses. For me the Pine Valley of massages was one I had a few years back at the CordeValle Resort in California\u2014before it starting raining hot dogs on Tiger Woods out on the Robert Trent Jones Jr. golf course. It\u2019s still on the Sense Spa menu, the two-hour Rain Room Rejuvenation.<\/p>\n

What was essentially a steam bath followed by a horizontal shower\u2014as close as one can come to being in a human car wash\u2014was followed by an exfoliating scrub and deep-tissue massage. I\u2019m not sure if it was more rejuvenating or stupefying, but I\u2019m still looking for the treatment to top it.<\/p>\n

[See a longer post about the CordeValle Resort here.<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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