Brett Meyer

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@BPBlackMetal The 6th feels to me more like a simpler version of the 15th or the 17th green, which we might call a Strantz concept: the 3-greens-in-1-green.

Like the 17th, this one has tees spread 60+ yards wide, essentially making it several holes. Not my favorite concept--feels overdone.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@JulianWaller There's certainly no Acemoglu without North. But I think AJR should get much of the credit for the explosion of quantitative historical political economy and the application of causal inference methods to it. No one did that before them, now everyone does.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@JulianWaller The practical importance of their work is tremendous. Like you said, getting people to think about this at the airport book level. They should have also given it to Jared Diamond for that.

They also revitalized historical political economy and centered politics in economics.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@jordanmcarleton @greatlakesloops I’m not sure I prefer stoatin brae but there’s a strong argument for it—there’s more variety there. A lot of holes on the south feel kind of the same, especially off the tee.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@greatlakesloops I think it's Conroy-Dewling (sp?), the same guys (I think) who designed Brentwood, Timber Trace, and Mystic Creek.

Except for the back nine at Brentwood, this is easily the worst of the four.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@Cade4ISU @Top100Rick Aren’t you close to a scratch golfer? Nothing wrong with you playing the tips unless you’re playing Erin Hills.

But I don’t understand why someone would want to play a course at a distance which is going to make it almost impossible to shoot what’s for them a good score.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

I may not agree with the hierarchy of Disney songs, but I certainly agree with this.

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

You should have to process an animal yourself (kill+butcher) one time before you are allowed to purchase that type of animal meat at stores

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@greatlakesloops Hadn't heard that Cattails was closing but yeah, it definitely wasn't great. Worse than nearby Tanglewood and Links of Novi.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@greatlakesloops Sage Run. I just looked for it the other day on Google Maps and Google Earth and it wasn't there. Where did you find it.

Btw., very good course. Maybe one of the 10 best public courses in the state although the routing is a bit funky in the middle of the image.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@JulianWaller Weird head size to shoulder width. Should have either broadened his arms or worn some shoulder pads.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@greatlakesloops Black Lake is a nice course but the land is mostly flat and it's not very interesting. Red Hawk is a much better course if you're looking for options on the east side of the state (although much further south). The Gailes is better too.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@BryanTweed16 @Arcadia_Bluffs @ErinHillsGolf @Sand_Valley @forestdunesgolf @GolfKohler @BOYNE_Golf @BigCedarLodge @GolfBigCedar @BreezyResort @clublaclabelle For Michigan and Wisconsin, I'd go:
1) Lawsonia-Links
2) Sand Valley
3) Whistling Straits-Straits
4) Mammoth Dunes
5) Blackwolf Run-River
6) Arcadia Bluffs-Bluffs
7) Forest Dunes
8) Pilgrim's Run
9) American Dunes
10) The Loop or Greywalls

Then Arcadia Bluffs-South

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@BryanTweed16 @GolfKohler I thought it was Pete Dye dialing his usual ideas up to a 12 and just too much. But I might have liked it if I hadn’t seen 10+ Dye courses before it.

I think the order you see them matters for these architects who did a lot of stylistically similar courses.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@BryanTweed16 Drop Heat to 6, add Mean Streets around there, and you’re good.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@BryanTweed16 Love the stain his spray tan leaves on the wall in this scene.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

My issue is less with any individual sport than the fact that some have too many events. Do we need 8 ping pong events or 10 diving events?

The only exceptions to this should be track, swimming, and fighting/weightlifting, where you need weight classes.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@JulianWaller Excellent piece Julian! Really helps make sense for us non-Russia-people of why, despite all the failures in the war, Putin's regime still seems so stable.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@BPBlackMetal @Cannonball63 I agree with the sentiment but there are some pretty dangerous/annoying ones, including the blind path from the beach that crosses St. Enodoc's 10th fairway and the path that crosses in front of the 7th green at Cleeve Hill, which can be a heavy stream of people.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@BryanTweed16 Uggh, and I was just at Crystal Mountain and Arcadia Bluffs.

[Brett Meyer @BAMbrettem]

@BPBlackMetal No. 1 was good, but not great. It was one of the best looking, with several 100 ft.+ red and white pines. Honestly, it was probably better as a forest before it was turned into a golf course.