re: "Scruffy golf courses"

I played at at Ethel a few times long before it was “upgraded” to Magnolia Creek. The clubhouse was the owner’s house; when I went inside to pay my ($9?) fee, I literally stepped over the owner’s kids lying on the floor watching cartoons, on my way to put the money in the metal box on the kitchen table. Then you’d try to find a cart with a charged battery or that didn’t have grass growing through the floorboard. 9 holes, 18 different tees, no sequencing, wear a helmet. But we had a ball.