Once beyond scary appearances, the course is short, just 6,554 yards from the back tees, and not impossibly tough.
But for the right person this humble apartment could be a dream home, and once you look beyond the torn curtains and grotty bathroom, you'll see there are 99,500 reasons why.
And once you strayed beyond that narrow strip of indie-as-commonly-understood, there was a steadily accumulating ferment of activity that shredded the indie stereotype to the point where, by the decade's end, the word was virtually meaningless.
Well, after Cardiff last week we know little has changed with Wales and, once Warren Gatland strays beyond his first-choice squad, the pool of talent is quite shallow while Ireland continue to look every bit champions of Europe, now rated second best in the world.
Those days, in the early years of this decade, were the last time real life overwhelmed the state's ability to govern itself — that's when voters recalled their governor, Gray Davis, and once again looked beyond "reality," to Hollywood, for their next savior, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
People often ask me what plankton are, and once we get beyond the initial definition, they then want to know if they are plants or animals.
But, like a lot of other pretty things, you sometimes end up sacrificing brains for looks and once you get beyond the initial attraction stage you may find that you've wound up with a real dummy.
In our study, the protocol was interrupted once for desaturation to 88% and once for tachycardia beyond the 80% maximal HR threshold.
Foreign Report ventured to the edge of what libel law allowed, and once or twice strayed beyond.
But still, they will be made to solve a specific problem; and once an inquiry goes beyond the spectrum of situations for which it was trained, the interaction will feel weird.
