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Date Posted: 02:09:40 09/20/99 Mon
Author: Tim Nash
Subject: The USGA Bureaucrats

Though only on the USGA message board for a week or two, I quickly realized that the USGA is comprised of a bunch of bureaucrats that are working in a monopoly, and are not much interested in serving their membership, let alone golfers in general, unless they don't have to go out of their way or change any of the status quo or outdated situations. They only answer questions in a form-like, wrote manner, and will backpeddle if anything they say is found later to be incorrect or if they didn't understand in the first place.

I formerly had to deal with a similar organization, the AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics) since I was an officer in one of their SIGs (Special Interest Groups) dealing with radio controlled helicopters. Like the USGA, the AMA was the officially designated organization in the USA to handle events, records, etc. (by the FAI -- Federation Aeronautique International -- in France, in the AMA's case). The AMA too was unbudging and unresponsive to its membership till another group started offering similar benefits, insurance for model flight liability (at a much better rate), etc. Unlike the AMA, the USGA may never have a significant challenger. (God help us.)

Therefore, I feel the value of my time, though not particularly valuable, is much too great to totally waste on the USGA or their Web site, and I certainly will never again buy a yearly membership as I have, on occasion, done in the past!

Screw `em. They just ain't worth it.

From: The Mountain, Cough Drop Div.
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September 20, 1999
5:06 am EASTERN STANDARD TIME

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Replies:

Re: The USGA Bureaucrats -- Duncan Mackenzie, 09:59:43 09/20/99 Mon
- Re: The USGA Bureaucrats -- Bill Boehm, 12:10:40 09/23/99 Thu