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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 05:06 PM
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Anyone have $4.5 Million I can borrow? I wanna buy America's oldest golf course
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's Oakhurst Links is up for sale -- the birthplace of American golf, where sheep roam the fairways and modern technology takes a back seat to hickory-shafted clubs.

Owner Lewis Keller said that after 50 years, it's time for someone else to oversee the White Sulphur Springs course that held its first competition in 1884.

The asking price for the nine-hole course and its museum -- $4.5 million.

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Visitors are required to use replica hickory clubs, hit gutta-percha balls molded from the sap of the sapodilla tree, and form tees from a mound of wet sand. Electric carts are unavailable -- golfers walk among the dozens of sheep just as participants did a century ago.

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=4401187




I would LOVE to own this course and take care of it.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 05:37 PM
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1. Let me check under the mattress.
Shit, I already used that to buy booze.
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