Concurring with you, simple logic thriumphs again!

Rudy
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> I respectfully disagree with the philosophy and the logic behind Mr. Thomas A
> Bowden in his
> SHAME ON CASEY MARTIN
> Disabled Golfer Asks Supreme Court to OK His Forced Entry into Tournaments,
> via Law
> That Penalizes the Able
> By Thomas A. Bowden
> I am saddened by the emotional title for the right of the person to compete
> in a tournament by PGA which in deed is a private organization using public
> funding through commercials for the products I buy and have no interest in
> supporting their elitist agenda! If the PGA wishes its right to exercise to
> be the private organization and then make its exhibition matches private also
> so the elite few can enjoy to their hearts content.  However I take issue
> with them, when they wish to use the public airwaves and to cap it off sell
> advertisements to get a part of my money spent on the products. One can't
> have the cake and eat it too and then cry foul when people demand equal
> rights. I feel this is twisted logic. I have no objection if these great
> players wish to walk hundreds of miles to practice their precision shooting
> and find out who is the best in walking continuously without rest for
> hundreds of miles and at the same time can shoot with precision. However if
> it is done in the public domain and then entice me to view it, so they can
> make their millions in prize money, then I have as much rights as anyone else
> to practice in the real part of the game which is precision according to the
> writer. " Golf is a game of extreme precision. Tiny variations in the swing
> of a club determine whether a shot lands on the green or in a sand trap,
> whether a tricky putt falls in or rims out. "
>       How does precision and stamina of walking miles are clubbed together is
> beyond me. Now if the rules specify that a person has to travel and shoot
> from say 5th hole to 6th hole is 15 minutes, then we can understand the
> advantage gained by going in a golf cart. I know of no such rule and I have
> watched the golfers take their sweet time and walk back and forth to practice
> their putt or shot. So to claim one is tired and has to shoot a shot right
> away is not only irrational but an excuse to deny others who are not
> physically the same as the writer is. It is sad to note that the player has
> to resort to court action when this great organization can't accommodate such
> a trivial matter and make an exception.  Though I am rooting for Casey Martin
> to win the case and the GOLF GAME to motivate other individuals similarly
> situated that everything is possible if one puts the mind to it. I am not
> advocating an electronic sighter, (though I might suggest that for a visually
> impaired person) be attached to his golf club, then the writer has really
> something to complain about! If one views the ability and disability are the
> restraints imposed by the environment not the human mind, then these
> assistive technologies are only a prop to the real performer the human mind!
> Murali