I remember Boz being a really good softball player with Buddy's Appliance. They traveled to lots of softball tournaments. Then Boz got ate up with golf and didn't see him on the softball field as much.

Same thing happened with David Lish. Great softball player, then disappeared. Asked where he was and someone told me he was spending all his time playing golf. I was a non-golfer when that happened, and thought to myself "how stupid".

Later one of my buddies took me to Muni for the first time and I was hooked. I played all three major sports all my life up until then, and was a natural at all of them. Never could understand how some kids were so awkward at sports. In 7th grade basketball tryouts, the first cut was who could make a layup. I saw kids clanking the ball on the underside of the rim and thought "How can anyone be that bad?"....but when I picked up a golf club for the first time, I became "that guy". Hardest game I've ever played, but also the best.

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I remember Boz being a really good softball player with Buddy's Appliance. They traveled to lots of softball tournaments. Then Boz got ate up with golf and didn't see him on the softball field as much.

Same thing happened with David Lish. Great softball player, then disappeared. Asked where he was and someone told me he was spending all his time playing golf. I was a non-golfer when that happened, and thought to myself "how stupid".

Later one of my buddies took me to Muni for the first time and I was hooked. I played all three major sports all my life up until then, and was a natural at all of them. Never could understand how some kids were so awkward at sports. In 7th grade basketball tryouts, the first cut was who could make a layup. I saw kids clanking the ball on the underside of the rim and thought "How can anyone be that bad?"....but when I picked up a golf club for the first time, I became "that guy". Hardest game I've ever played, but also the best.y

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Boz and I are still in touch. He was part of our Bracketville tournament group and we played many rounds together and shared in many shenanigans over the years. Boz became a very, very, good golfer.

Not sure why but I played the Bryan course more than the campus course.

I was at A&M from 94-99 and don't remember exactly when but one time I was playing with a buddy and heard a loud bang that sounded like a gunshot. A few days later we heard that some lady blew out her brains. Not sure if this is true or not.

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Not sure why but I played the Bryan course more than the campus course.

I was at A&M from 94-99 and don't remember exactly when but one time I was playing with a buddy and heard a loud bang that sounded like a gunshot. A few days later we heard that some lady blew out her brains. Not sure if this is true or not.

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It is true.

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I created a public Facebook group to share old pics. AgDotCom would love for you to share that yardage book there. Feel free to share pics or sketches or anything else on that page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4102087046783113

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Thank you, EE.....but I'm not much of a Facebook person. The triathlon was held from 1985 until about 2000 or so, I'd guess there are between 100-200 "alumni", about half of them local...I'm sure there's a few that will post the yardage book on FB when they see it.

I'll post the entire yardage book a few holes at a time here. I've enjoyed the recollections I've seen so far from everyone, including yours, and look forward to the others to come. I can feel the essence of Muni coming alive through these stories. And I'm especially grateful you started this thread.

I knew Billy Bob Lane well. He worked in B/CS for a civil engineering / land surveying outfit called MDG for quite a few years before he went to work at Muni. I've met a few folks as genuine as him, but never anyone more genuine. You always got the real Billy Bob, every time. I miss him.

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One of the finest men that I have ever had the pleasure of working with and calling a friend. My wife and I used to go eat with him and Dottie at the Chicken Oil. He loved his Miller High Life and Cliff at the Chicken Oil! I never got along with the person who was the GM prior to Billy. We had a major falling out during the Oilman's tournament. I was sitting in the Pro Shop really, really, pissed when Billy walked over. He told me, "If it was me, I would quit." He said, "JB!98, you have a lot to offer that would be wasted in the golf business, go graduate and take advantage of those skills." I quit that afternoon and never looked back.

I loved working with the Triathlon tournament. Always a great group of guys and a great concept for a tournament. Probably worked with you to book at one point.

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Billy Bob was my Buddy. He taught me to hit a hook! We went to football games together, tailgates, played golf, drank, and as JB said we would go to eat with him at the Chicken Oil quite often with his wife Dottie. Great Times for sure!!! Did yall see that the Chicken got a remodel?

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I created a public Facebook group to share old pics. AgDotCom would love for you to share that yardage book there. Feel free to share pics or sketches or anything else on that page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4102087046783113

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Thank you, EE.....but I'm not much of a Facebook person. The triathlon was held from 1985 until about 2000 or so, I'd guess there are between 100-200 "alumni", about half of them local...I'm sure there's a few that will post the yardage book on FB when they see it.

I'll post the entire yardage book a few holes at a time here. I've enjoyed the recollections I've seen so far from everyone, including yours, and look forward to the others to come. I can feel the essence of Muni coming alive through these stories. And I'm especially grateful you started this thread.

I knew Billy Bob Lane well. He worked in B/CS for a civil engineering / land surveying outfit called MDG for quite a few years before he went to work at Muni. I've met a few folks as genuine as him, but never anyone more genuine. You always got the real Billy Bob, every time. I miss him.

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One of the finest men that I have ever had the pleasure of working with and calling a friend. My wife and I used to go eat with him and Dottie at the Chicken Oil. He loved his Miller High Life and Cliff at the Chicken Oil! I never got along with the person who was the GM prior to Billy. We had a major falling out during the Oilman's tournament. I was sitting in the Pro Shop really, really, pissed when Billy walked over. He told me, "If it was me, I would quit." He said, "JB!98, you have a lot to offer that would be wasted in the golf business, go graduate and take advantage of those skills." I quit that afternoon and never looked back.

I loved working with the Triathlon tournament. Always a great group of guys and a great concept for a tournament. Probably worked with you to book at one point.

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Billy Bob was my Buddy. He taught me to hit a hook! We went to football games together, tailgates, played golf, drank, and as JB said we would go to eat with him at the Chicken Oil quite often with his wife Dottie. Great Times for sure!!! Did yall see that the Chicken got a remodel?

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If you mean the Chicken Oil, then yes because it burned. They have been working on it quite a while. If they ever remodeled the Chicken, they would ruin it.

If the Cliff you're speaking of that Billy Bob liked at Chicken Oil is Cliff George, I know him very well also. Hell, everyone does. He was the Ganter family's go-to guy for a long time. Everybody loves Cliff. He's living large travelling all over the country these days...and takes his golf clubs with him fairly often, too.

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If the Cliff you're speaking of that Billy Bob liked at Chicken Oil is Cliff George, I know him very well also. Hell, everyone does. He was the Ganter family's go-to guy for a long time. Everybody loves Cliff. He's living large travelling all over the country these days...and takes his golf clubs with him fairly often, too.

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That is him! Another great guy that I met through the golf course! Glad to hear he is doing well, he certainly has earned it.

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Not sure why but I played the Bryan course more than the campus course.

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It was about $10 cheaper and they didn't have gas carts. And for a brief while, it was BYOB.

Bryan was a more enjoyable layout, IMO.

Yea. Old campus course kinda sucked. Also - shut down for a pretty good stretch. Seemed like it was 2-3 years start to finish.

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Not sure why but I played the Bryan course more than the campus course.

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It was about $10 cheaper and they didn't have gas carts. And for a brief while, it was BYOB.

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Oh, it was always BYOB. Just come in and buy 2 beers, get a cooler, and then smuggle beers out of your bag into the cooler. Boom. BYOB!!!!

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Not sure why but I played the Bryan course more than the campus course.

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It was about $10 cheaper and they didn't have gas carts. And for a brief while, it was BYOB.

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Oh, it was always BYOB. Just come in and buy 2 beers, get a cooler, and then smuggle beers out of your bag into the cooler. Boom. BYOB!!!!

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Yeah, I knew guys who could afford to buy the course but they just HAD to smuggle beer in or it wasn't officially a check all the boxes great time.

I am a 2017 grad and loved this course. Skipped class many times to play a round here. Shot my best round ever at Bryan Muni and it's still the only time that I broke 80

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Not sure why but I played the Bryan course more than the campus course.

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It was about $10 cheaper and they didn't have gas carts. And for a brief while, it was BYOB.

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Oh, it was always BYOB. Just come in and buy 2 beers, get a cooler, and then smuggle beers out of your bag into the cooler. Boom. BYOB!!!!

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Yeah, I knew guys who could afford to buy the course but they just HAD to smuggle beer in or it wasn't officially a check all the boxes great time.

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My strategy against this was to hire or encourage the hiring of the best looking cart girls we could find. I think from about '93-96 we had a pretty good run.

Can confirm and may have also benefited

One year in the triathlon on #8, I tried to lay up safe 150 to the green but hit it a s****ty shot left onto hardpan and it rolled into trouble. My partner laid up a perfect tee shot semi close to that cypress leaving us a nine iron into the green. Some of us olds remember Tommy Armour 845 irons were hot s*** at the time, and my partner was playing them. However, those irons had cool but crappy numbers on the sole which didn't differentiate the 6 from the 9 well enough. My partner, in that perfect beer buzz zone and chest puffed after his tee shot, mistakenly pulled the 6 and sent it 40 yards over the green into another group ahead of us who had pushed their tee shot right on #9. Words were exchanged but turned into laughs once the group ahead found out what really happened.

Did the same thing on 3. Had a new set of Titleist blades, 1st rd on them. Grabbed the 6 thinking it was a 9 & put it on the basketball court

AgDotCom love that yardage book. Very well done I might add. Did you laser that stuff or step it off?

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I still have a putter that I won for closest to the hole on one of the Par 3s in an IEEE tournament there in 1992. We had some great times out there.

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Was it a "Novellus" logo'd putter? We used to sponsor and play in that tournament.

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I still have a putter that I won for closest to the hole on one of the Par 3s in an IEEE tournament there in 1992. We had some great times out there.

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Was it a "Novellus" logo'd putter? We used to sponsor and play in that tournament.

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I don't think it is logo'd but I will look. It is in with several of my old clubs.

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AgDotCom love that yardage book. Very well done I might add. Did you laser that stuff or step it off?

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Thanks, several guys had a hand in that, I was just one of them. Not bad for a bunch of drunks. We used a measuring wheel like the one below, rangefinders were either rare in 1995 or rare for people like us to own. On #2 and #3 we used a roll of heavy construction twine to stretch across the water, mark the twine where it touched land then measure between the marks. This worked fine on #3, but #2 was a pain due to some 6-8 ft. tall reeds most of the way around the bank we had to drag the string over. Going into the lake was prohibited. We got a reading on #2, but not sure how accurate it was. For us, close enough.

I'll post some more pages this weekend.

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AgDotCom love that yardage book. Very well done I might add. Did you laser that stuff or step it off?

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Thanks, several guys had a hand in that, I was just one of them. Not bad for a bunch of drunks. We used a measuring wheel like the one below, rangefinders were either rare in 1995 or rare for people like us to own. On #2 and #3 we used a roll of heavy construction twine to stretch across the water, mark the twine where it touched land then measure between the marks. This worked fine on #3, but #2 was a pain due to some 6-8 ft. tall reeds most of the way around the bank we had to drag the string over. Going into the lake was prohibited. We got a reading on #2, but not sure how accurate it was. For us, close enough.

I'll post some more pages this weekend.

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One way to contribute to the beer fund was to collect balls from #1 pond. We had a wheel like deal we would use, but sometimes would go in the water at night while watering. The club house was buying them for $0.25 per ball, so I guess it was worth it!

After your tee shot on 11, how many of you pulled your wedge and putter out of your bag and made the walk of shame over to 18 tee and waited for that group to clear before you could hit your approach to 11? Here. That must have been the same feeling if you were the only guy on the crapper without a stall in a crowded nightclub men's room.

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Worked maintenance out there 10+ years ago. Nearly sunk a tee mower into the small pond behind the senior tees on 6. We all had designated nights we'd have to water the tees and greens. Each green had a key that would turn the pop up sprinklers on, hopefully. Everything else was plugging single sprinklers in couplers. Often times they'd explode in your face because everything was so old. We did our part to control the nutria population while we waiting on a green or tee to finish. You could only run a few at a time because the pressure wasn't that great. Sometimes you could get away with running multiple on opposite ends of the course. During the summer when we'd have to run each tee/green for close to an hour it wasn't uncommon to be out there until 2-3am but you got the next day off.

Being on that side of town it wasn't uncommon to be driving in the pitch black on the toro only to turn a corner and shine the lights on a crackhead walking the course. Talk about scaring the **** out of you. I bought my first Glock because of that job and it ride in the glovebox with me. Before I left it got to the point we developed a relationship with Bryan PD because they'd often have to come sit in the parking lot because we'd hear gunshots.

Threw my girlfriend (now wife) out of the toro once chasing a fox. A member ended up killing it with a 9 iron one morning. Word was it had rabies but idk if they sent it off or if it was just suspected since it came close to people.

Heading to The Masters with my brother and good friend tomorrow. All 3 of us went from working at the old A&M course to Muni when A&M closed for the remodel.

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Had the same job when I was in school. We might have been there at the same time. Many great memories riding around in the middle of the night on the night water shift with a blaring speaker and a 12 pack of miller lite. The superintendent at the time just required that all of the evidence was disposed of before he got there in the morning

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After your tee shot on 11, how many of you pulled your wedge and putter out of your bag and made the walk of shame over to 18 tee and waited for that group to clear before you could hit your approach to 11? Here. That must have been the same feeling if you were the only guy on the crapper without a stall in a crowded nightclub men's room.

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Why did I ever play these holes with driver or 3 wood? A simple 5-6 iron on each would have found the fairway and kept you out of the trees or hard pan. A wedge or 9 iron at worst into the green and move along. Everybody had to go for the green though! The beauty of growing up!

Edit: I am talking from the blue tees, not that that made much difference!

I used to play with some locals that had above 460cc drivers and just tried to drive the green on every hole. Great times

JB!98's little bro, had a set of knock off clubs IIRC and could literally drive 95% of the holes out there from the tips.

In fact he once drove it deep on #4 (which if IIRC was 365 or so from the tips), which all of us know was literally jail. Green sloped back to front there severely. I hit 2i- 9i to about 15 feet below the hole and 2 putted for par. He makes a 5 from behind the green. As we are walking off the green I said "great drive D"

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JB!98's little bro, had a set of knock off clubs IIRC and could literally drive 95% of the holes out there from the tips.

In fact he once drove it deep on #4 (which if IIRC was 365 or so from the tips), which all of us know was literally jail. Green sloped back to front there severely. I hit 2i- 9i to about 15 feet below the hole and 2 putted for par. He makes a 5 from behind the green. As we are walking off the green I said "great drive D"

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Sounds like him!

4, 7, 15 and 17 were brutal if above the hole. And that's on slowish greens. When baked out in the summer you were screwed.

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4, 7, 15 and 17 were brutal if above the hole. And that's on slowish greens. When baked out in the summer you were screwed.

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When I was in Maintenace we would double cut them and then set the holes in impossible places. The old timers would go up and complain to Scott Manda so bad that he would have Dennis give us a talking to. Good times. My favorite was to make 15 into just a miserable experience.

If you put 15 in the middle,at that fall point, it was a near impossible putt from anywhere.

We had someone decide to make 15 his personal dirtbike ramp one night. The guy watering that night turned the lights off on the Toro and snuck up on him and scared the **** out of him.

Thanks these have all been added to the FB page!