Geoff Shackelford
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I am old enough for that.
But no, no.
I've been in a press center with...
what was the thing after typewriters?
They're, they're sort of, um, they're not a teletype, but it's a, it's, I watched Jim Murray work on this, uh, with, with water dripping from the cart barn roof there at Riviera, just unfazed.
I, so I try to think of that when I'm really whining one day, like, you know, I've got literally, I can, I have a camera in my phone.
Uh, I mean, the equipment's amazing.
I can put it all in a backpack.
I've got a laptop and, uh, and I think, uh,
You know, Jim Murray was trying to bang out brilliant stuff, which he did in far worse working conditions.
So I can't even imagine a room full of typewriters and smoking.
And I just I have asked people about the old Augusta.
They said it wasn't just that.
Then it was the Quonset hut and the acoustics were just it wasn't like our little cafe there now with a nice wood ceiling.
It was just aluminum.
And I don't know how everybody got anything done, much less wrote a decent article.
Yeah, and that is the one area where I do gripe still.
It's like the Masters serves up β they open the bar right after the Champions Press Conference, and you can tell how I feel about the winner based on if both hands are full with an azalea with the Casamigos, although they changed tequila this year.
But, yeah, I've gotten some funny looks in recent years, Sandy, when I've asked, do we have any β
We have any beer or wine?