


| Theirs (PGA Majors) |
Ours (GT Minors) |
| First Major The Masters 4/8 - 4/11 Augusta National |
First Minor The GT Open 4/15 The prestigious Copper Hill GC a/k/a "The Goat Track" |
| Second Major US Open 6/17 - 6/20 Pebble Beach |
Second Minor The Willie Li Memorial Open 6/24 The inimitable Keney Public GC, a/k/a "The Urban Goat Track" |
| Third Major British Open 7/15 - 7/18 St. Andrews (Old Course) |
Third Minor The Dank British Experience 7/22 The Tradition GC, Windsor |
| Fourth Major PGA Championship 8/12 - 8/15 Whistling Straits Kohler, WI |
Fourth Minor The GT Championship 8/19 The alternate runway for Bradley Int'l Airport Airways GC |
Other GT stuff to help you
waste/pass your time...
A fan of the GT site was kind enough to send a link to "The Tiger Game," which is pretty amusing. Enjoy.
"The Office" Golf Game. Play the Dunder-Mifflin Mini-Golf Course.
Courtesy of 2008 Goat Tracker of the Year, Wink, at the 2010 Willie Li Memorial Open 6/24/10 (directed toward
Golfer Number Two on the 16th),"That looks like an interesting lie you've got there. Do you have a club in your bag for that shot... one that you can hit from.... the fairway?"
The esteemed Tracker known as Friar Tuck provided some interesting insight to the "real estate angle" of the TW fiasco, "The last time an angry Swede went to an island to get away from it all, it was called England."
Per Sherpa JB 8/09, "Wink called me to say he was driving up for some Tracking. I said, 'Hey, that's a long ride for just 9 holes and by the way, it may rain.' Without a second's hesitation, Wink responded, 'That's what the Goat Tracker of the Year does. See you later.'" Truly a man who takes his status within the Goat Tracking community seriously.
"In honor of Michael Jackson, we're all wearing one glove today." Deep thought from Rabbit Ears at the Willie Li Memorial Open, 6/25/09.
"It's a good idea to keep your greens fee receipt on you at Keney. Not so much for the ranger, but if your body ends up in the woods, the time stamp may prove useful in establishing a time line for the investigation." Insight from Rabbit Ears on the Urban Goat Tracking Experience, 6/10/09.
"I wanted to make sure not to step in your line, I might improve it," GTC on the putting conditions on #4 at the GT Open 4/16/09.
Other Notable Quotables
"When primative man screamed and banged clubs into the ground, they called it witchcraft. When modern man does it, they call it golf." Source unknown, posted on a plaque above the urinal at Chanticlair GC.
"[Barkley] has a great coach. [Haney] coached Tiger. On the other hand, Phil Jackson coached Kwami Brown." TNT basketball studio analyst Kenny Smith, on the Barkley/Haney project.
"What Greg Norman has done so far this week is nothing compared to what Hef does every single day." Tim Kurkjian, ESPN, re. the 2008 Open.
"Somewhere in hell, there's a course where every shot is 55 yards from the hole." Jeff Foxworthy
Best GT Caption of 2009: "Nick Cook Reinstated as an Amateur." Straight from the cover of the CSGA 2009 Media Guide (which we picked up at Brooklyn CC back in May). Struck a chord in GT circles because we've all been "reinstated as hackers" after going low once, aspiring to better things, only to revert to form the next time out. In our opinion, this is a classic.
GT QUOTE OF THE MILLENEUM (not sure which tour player to credit): "[Augusta National] is the most unassuming clubhouse I've ever been in." As John McEnroe would say, "You CANNOT be serious!" Whoever made this comment has obviously never been to Keney's Great Room or the watering hole (can't really call it the 19th, since it's a 9-hole course) at Canaan CC. His loss.
Other "classic" archived GT-inspired quotes
Featured ad: this FedEx ad is pretty well-traveled territory for most of us...
We'd like to post a link to the recent (summer, 2010) Heineken ad about "winning back some of that cheese," but it the site requires a login and is a pain in the ass to link to. If you've seen the commercial, you no doubt appreciate it.
Featured Clips: Kudos to Friar Tuck for providing this clip from NPR, which is generally off the radar as far as all things golf and Goat Tracking are concerned. This voice clip works on several levels, but the two most significant ones are: 1) it reinforces Friar Tuck's long held position that "the golf gods always punish hubris" and 2) Ana Gasteyer's NPR skits on SNL with Molly Shannon, occasionally with Alec Baldwin (Schweddy balls, Schweddy wieners), were more spot on than we could've imagined.Tracker Commentary on the PGA Tour...just because we feel the need to set the record straight...
2/8/09: Nick Watney may have holed out for eagle on 18 to witn the Buick Invitational, but our vote for best shot of the week has to go to Retief Goosen for his exceptional display of Track Acumen (to view the 2/6 video clip of Goosen, scroll down to the "2/6 shot of the day" to find and play it).
Current Tracking Conditions (new feature 2010, still trying to clean it up).
We're experimenting with the blog format in the links below to "expand the base of Tracker Knowledge."
(diaclaimer/mumbo-jumbo: Posted comments may be edited by Goat-Track.com as deemed necessary and/or incorporated into existing course reviews (on the CT GT and More Tracks pages) as appropriate. Comments on courses not listed can be sent to goattracker@yahoo.com, so that we can add them to our list. Thanks.)
Tracks with Open Forums:
Goat Tracks in the Minor Event Rotation:
Copper Hill (the Goat Track, East Granby)
Keney (The Urban Goat Track, Hartford)
Tradition GC (Windsor)
Airways GC (Suffield)
Goat Tracks West of the River:
Goody (Urban Goat Track-South, Hartford)
Fenwick (Old Saybrook)
Camaan CC
Indian Springs (Middlefield)
Goat Tracks East of the River:
Chanticlair (Colchester)
Long Hill (East Hartford)
Banner CC...and Resort (Moodus)
The Skunk (a/k/a Skungamaug, Coventry)
Twiin Hills (Coventry)
"The University Club" (f/k/a Willimantic CC, Windham)
Brooklyn CC
Executive Tracks:
Del Boca Vista (a/k/a Buena Vista, West Hartford)
Westwoods (Farmington)
Quarry View (East Canaan)
Willow Brook (South Windsor)
Miner Hills (Middletown)
Villa Hills (Storrs)
Goat Tracks Outside Connecticut:
Coventry Pines (Coventry, Rhode Island)
Goddard Park (Rhode Island)
The Terp Track (a/k/a the University of Maryland GC)
Vanny (Van Cortlandt, Bronx, NY)
Pembroke
GT Wannabes and Usedtobes (West of the River)
Tower Ridge (Simsbury/Avon town line)
Hawk's Landing (Southington)
Timberlin (Berlin)
Rolling Greens (Rocky Hill)
GT Wamabes and Usedtobes (East of the River)
Grassmere
Minnechaug
Rolling Meadows
(still a work in progress, we're trying to clean it up, tweak it, and make it more Tracker-friendly; constructive input appreciated, thanks)



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OTHER TRACKING RELATED NEWS...
There's a lot of "Goat Track" related material floating around on the web; we're always trying to sift through it and provide only the best, Tracker-relevant info. (contributions from GT readers are greatly appreciated).
7/9/10 "30 Arrested, $1,622 Seized in Keney Park Drug Ring," (ctnow.com/Hartford Courant). Putting the "contact high" achieved upon departure from the Willie Li Memorial Open 6/24 at the UGT into context.
5/31/10 "Hartford Hopes to Build Driving Range at Keney Park" (ctnow.com). We can think of a few things that should probably be higher on the list of priorities at the Urban Goat Track, but what do we know, we're just Goat Trackers. What's next, a maitre d' and sommelier in the Great Room?
11/3/09 "4.1 Pounds of Pot Found in Keney Park," (WFSB.com). Par for the course at the Urban Goat Track.
CTGOLFALLIANCE.com. A must read for any self-respecting local Tracker...(a partial explanation of why this gets under our skin at Goat-Track.com)
8/1/09 "Golf Cart Mishap Sidelines New Lion Bryant Johnson." Where to begin...at least it wasn't a self-inflicted gunshot wound caused by holstering in a pair of sweatpants.
6/3/09 "The Word's Toughest Golf Tourney: One Hole, Three Miles Long" (Yahoo Sports). Extreme Goat Tracking in Mexico...pretty cool.
5/26/09 "East Hartford: Man Dies after Police Shooting" (Hartford Courant). Noteworthy because of the location and the tie-in to the original June, 2007 review of East Hartford GC/Long Hill CC.
4/28/09 "Columbia Golfers Win Without Golf Course" (WSJ)
4/14/09 "Public Hearings Set for Next Month on Controversial Golf Course Plan" (Hartford Courant) We generally try to keep Goat-Track.com out of the political fray. We only wish that politicians would reciprocate in kind. Not so. Rabbit Ears forwarded the above article about a contentious golf course development in the northwest corner of CT. What's noteworthy here, from a non-GT perspective, is that this looks like Attorney General Blumenthal's second major overreach in as many months. We're sure that Senator Dodd has extra room in his club car out of town; we're looking forward to the AG tagging along for the ride.
4/4/09: Warning! Not all hazards are listed on the scorecard...or hitting the fairway is overrated..."Woman Dies After Falling into Hole at Golf Course" We're providing two links to this disturbing story; one with a picture of the sinkhole/death trap, just to help one wrap one's mind around it, the second with the more detailed news story.
1/25/09: "Bearly Open Golf Tournament" Golf on a frozen White Bear Lake. We like that they stuck some old Christmas trees in the ice to make it look more like a course. Nice touch.
1/5/09: "Playing Golf Can Damage Hearing" (BBC). Fore! What?
Check the Tracking News Archives for older news articles and/or the Recommended Tracker Reading section of the More Tracks page for other golf related pieces.
Other links, sites, etc. of Goat Tracker interest: on the More Tracks and GT Pro Shop pages.