- 11:26 PM, Friday,
March 25th, 2016:
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- WHEW. It is
finished...
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- Man, that was an
intense amount of work. Glad I started 6 weeks
ago. Kind of an interesting story on this
one...
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- So as I may
have mentioned running into Marc McClure (at my
house actually when Don brought him by), gave me the
idea for a Superman Themed Hole. In fact, a
straight-up Jimmy Olsen hole. And since he played
Jimmy Olsen in Superman AND Dave McFly in Back to the
Future, what better hole than 4 which shares it's
space with Golf To The Future Hole 7. I was gonna
do some tie-ins where one side was Jimmy Olsen and the
other was Dave from the infamous waving picture, the
whole 9.
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- Took a good 6
months of letting that sit in my brain for a bit when
I had to take that tree down and on a drunken
Drinks & Minigolf Saturday night we started
standing on the stump hitting shots. Hmmmm. I
eventually saw the idea for a legit (and very safe)
optional shot from that tee and the Super Tee was
born.
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- Contacted Marc
McClure, he was in. Also contacted Jack O'Halloran and
he was also in! Cool! He played the scary-ass big bad
guy from Superman 1&2. All things were a go and
I started to think about filling in the rest of
the green with stuff and little by little I was
concerned these guys would show up. Marc is far away
in Palm Springs but I gave him a 6 week heads up
and hoped we could work something out even if it meant
taping something. As it became clearer and clearer he
may not make it the hole changed. From Jimmy Olsen
centered to simply the Metropolis/Daily Planet theme
and avoiding copyrights it's just Planet GolfKon and
the Super Tee. The diamond shape is
apparent but there's no logo, etc. Kind of the cool
thing about GolfKon is that everything is a parody to
a degree. I don't want it to say the copyrighted
stuff, I want it to be a play on Golf, etc. So it
all works out.
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- Last month's entry
explains the craziness that was figuring out the rules
and angle to the Superman Tee and really all the old
rules apply so it works out great. Off-course balls
are always re-shot from the previous shot as your next
stroke... same case here. Now whether you have the
balls to attempt the zero shot in tournament play
remains to be seen until tomorrow. I've noticed lately
that we've been able to bounce it off the granite tee
OVER the Zero Super Logo. That's bad. If you can do
that you can almost always get it on the green. May
have to change that tomorrow morning,
dunno.
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- Anyway, it's a
really interesting addition to the course to have a
"choice" and should make for some great moments. Hole
9 (also a par 2) will eventually have the same thing.
Will be awesome to have people have NO choice at the
end but to do something stupid. That's the best
moments of GolfKon: the bet. Do you bet you can do
something amazing or bet your opponent will fuck up...
it's a nice wrinkle on the game and one you never see
really.
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