Calling it a house, of course, was a stretch.
The Brooklyn Golf Center course, along a stretch of the Gateway National Recreation Area, was so new it was almost antiseptic and included a waterfall and a few creatively designed holes.
The golf-course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. uses the phrase "shock and awesome" to describe one of his latest creations, Chambers Bay, the much-ballyhooed municipal course on a stretch of windswept Puget Sound coastline outside Tacoma, Wash.
At least at the Masters, being played on the greens of the 18-hole Hawaiian Rumble course on a stretch of Highway 17 just north of the resort town of Myrtle Beach, S.C. Don't confuse it with that other Masters in Augusta, Ga., a few hours' drive to the south.
Soon after the first mile, which is lined by fields of zucchini, the course enters a stretch lined by suburban supermarkets, car and boat dealerships, fast-food restaurants, gas stations, numerous furniture and home design stores and four Pet City franchises.
To understand what it's like to work on the railroad — the Long Island Rail Road — a good place to start is the Sunken Meadow golf course, a rolling stretch of state-owned land on Long Island Sound.
Which means that lots (and lots) of iterations are going to be par for the course — stretching and stretching dev time like a piece of space junk approaching a blackhole.
Of course, it was a stretch to portray the process as egalitarian: an advocate without corporate backing rarely got the chance to present the other side to a senator.
Opponents of a miniature golf course proposed for a stretch along the Montauk Highway here say they are motivated by a need to contain development, not by an aversion to golf.
So that's sort of what — of course it is a stretch, and one thing that Marx did not think about was what we call in economics today, winner-take-all markets.
