Laughable!!!!
That is what I just said to myself after trying use my log on for Brent Platers ego inflating website WildEquity.org. I had signed up a while back under my real name and email address. I wanted the opportunity to comment on his false claims about the Sharp Park Golf Course and the people who support it. Well now, it appears that Brent does not like to be challenged about his mis-leasding statements, mis-truths and propaganda on all things environmental, especially Sharp Park. When using my log on it says "you have banned from this site and we think you know why".
What a crock of Frog Crap!!!!! Brent, why is it you don't allow yourself to be challenged? Has John Maybury been twisting your ear about us evil golfers? This is so typical of the extreme far left. Well, enough said. Brent, I invite you to come over to Fix Pacifica where you can say your piece without being edited or excluded.
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Showing posts with label golf riptide sharp park. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Monday, November 9, 2009
My response to Ms. Jana on Riptide
"The report was guided by a small set of Pacifica and San Francisco golfers including Mayor Lancelle who want to continue to play the cheapest golf in California without having to drive more than a mile or two to do so".
Ms. Jana, I would not call 54,073 rounds of golf played at Sharp Park in the last fiscal year a "small set of golfers". Golf is on the rise at Sharp Park and that is a fact that cannot be denied. This amount is up for FY 2008 when 51,151 rounds were played. No one can continue to say rounds are down at Sharp Park. Of the 54,073 rounds played in FY 2009, 36% were by residents of SF and Pacifica and 31% were played by seniors. These numbers are not deniable.
This deal has changed so many times it's hard to keep up on what Plater and his followers are really after. First it was soccer fields, than it was to protect the snakes, then it was to return the area to it's natural state, now it is to donate the land to the federal government. First Plater was with the CBD, now he is not. Now he is trotting out some new group. I can't keep up anymore with this guy. I believe he is just trying to build his resume for a run at public office some day.
We golfers just want to play golf at a course that is affordable and close to home. Ms. Jana, if I drove to a course some 40 miles away from my house every weekend you would probably complain that my carbon footprint was too big, play golf closer to home!!! Well, I do play my golf close to home, because Sharp Park is a wonderful golf course, that is close to nature.
As for the argument that Sharp does not resemble a Makenzie course any longer, many golf courses are re-designed from their original design. Over the years Pebble Beach, Harding Park, Augusta National, even the Olympic Club have been changed a little here and there. This not mean that the courses are too different,and the same is true at Sharp Park. 14 of the 18 original holes are still here.
Plater has continued to trot out the same stale points now for the last 4 years. Sharp Park is the only course within the SF Park & Rec courses that is showing an increase in play. Of course he does not want anyone to know that. He is trotting out numbers from 4-5 years ago. Numbers that are a bit skewed because of back to back course closures due to flooding in the winters of 04-05 & 05-06. Flooding that will be worse in the future if Plater gets his way and tears the seawall down to turn the area into a "natural area". West Fairway Park residents should be very concerned about this issue.
Let's get real here people and improve a climate where golf and nature can co-exist. Because the report did not justify Mirkarimi and Plater's vision they are denouncing it. Sharp Park Golf Course can be a natioinal model for enviromentalism and golf. Let's make it happen.
Ms. Jana, I would not call 54,073 rounds of golf played at Sharp Park in the last fiscal year a "small set of golfers". Golf is on the rise at Sharp Park and that is a fact that cannot be denied. This amount is up for FY 2008 when 51,151 rounds were played. No one can continue to say rounds are down at Sharp Park. Of the 54,073 rounds played in FY 2009, 36% were by residents of SF and Pacifica and 31% were played by seniors. These numbers are not deniable.
This deal has changed so many times it's hard to keep up on what Plater and his followers are really after. First it was soccer fields, than it was to protect the snakes, then it was to return the area to it's natural state, now it is to donate the land to the federal government. First Plater was with the CBD, now he is not. Now he is trotting out some new group. I can't keep up anymore with this guy. I believe he is just trying to build his resume for a run at public office some day.
We golfers just want to play golf at a course that is affordable and close to home. Ms. Jana, if I drove to a course some 40 miles away from my house every weekend you would probably complain that my carbon footprint was too big, play golf closer to home!!! Well, I do play my golf close to home, because Sharp Park is a wonderful golf course, that is close to nature.
As for the argument that Sharp does not resemble a Makenzie course any longer, many golf courses are re-designed from their original design. Over the years Pebble Beach, Harding Park, Augusta National, even the Olympic Club have been changed a little here and there. This not mean that the courses are too different,and the same is true at Sharp Park. 14 of the 18 original holes are still here.
Plater has continued to trot out the same stale points now for the last 4 years. Sharp Park is the only course within the SF Park & Rec courses that is showing an increase in play. Of course he does not want anyone to know that. He is trotting out numbers from 4-5 years ago. Numbers that are a bit skewed because of back to back course closures due to flooding in the winters of 04-05 & 05-06. Flooding that will be worse in the future if Plater gets his way and tears the seawall down to turn the area into a "natural area". West Fairway Park residents should be very concerned about this issue.
Let's get real here people and improve a climate where golf and nature can co-exist. Because the report did not justify Mirkarimi and Plater's vision they are denouncing it. Sharp Park Golf Course can be a natioinal model for enviromentalism and golf. Let's make it happen.
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