Many developers knew they would lose money on fancy courses, Mr. Creed said, but they more than recovered their golf losses by charging premium prices on houses.
The newer venues were added partly to broaden the sport's appeal but mainly because the promoters concerned have built fancy courses and paid lavishly for the privilege of staging races.
Lunches were two fancy courses with such dishes as red pepper gazpacho, tagliatelle pasta, rolled out by the chef, with snow peas, sundried and fresh tomatoes, pesto and shavings of cheese.
At Tra Vigne, 1050 Charter Oak Avenue, St. Helena, (707) 963-4444, we splurged big-time on a fancy, four course Italian dinner with wine for $40 a head.
That first Masters Tournament... was only staged because Roberts and Jones had been utterly incapable of persuading the USGA to stage the US Open at their fancy new course.
"I didn't go to university or on a fancy writers' course, and so I think the respect is grudging – 'Oh he is just serving his community.' I am never taken seriously".
Entertaining need not be fancy, of course: the single greatest temporal blessing, he wrote, was a long evening of old friends, dark bread, good wine, and strong cheese.Mr Capon had no time for strict scorekeeping, in the kitchen or anywhere else.
Or the flight of fancy "cheese course": bubble-light and delicate fried ricotta gnocchi served with Meyer lemon and grapefruit puree.
If you want to get fancy, of course.
"We will not offer courses online just for the sake of offering them; that will be no more than fancy correspondence courses.
