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Ideal Grillroom
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By
Geoff Shackelford
The defining room of any club should have an airy, high-ceiling setting, where
bets are settled and unwinnable arguments debated below the names of former club
champions or invitational winners memorialized on wood siding reaching into the
upper reaches.
At least one sizeable flat screen television is included,
tuned to the Golf Channel or some other sporting event. Please, no news channels
or stock tickers—nobody should have to watch seemingly successful men sitting at
a crumb-covered table watching a ticker. It tempts one to ask in full Judge
Smails condescension, “Don’t you have homes?”
A tall bar without stools
guards one side of our ideal grill, serving not only lunch guests but also
welcoming golfers coming off the course. Perhaps they are passing through at the
turn to grab some peanuts and a soothing cocktail. Or making one last stop for a
Gatorade and grape juice before heading to the first tee on a steamy July
afternoon.
Either way, these wayward souls are free to stand and chat with
the bartender without having to squeeze between hunched bar dwellers who
unintentionally add an unseemly element that our ideal grill works hard to
discourage.
Ultimately, the model grillroom is only as memorable as the
golfers who gather there. The décor does not have to attain perfection, but
something about the scale and tone must invite complete comfort. While Winged
Foot’s grill obtains architectural nirvana, it’s the wonderful community
regaling nightly in an upstairs bar that adds to those halcyon days spent in the
Nebraska countryside playing at Sand Hills Golf Club.Next: Ideal Parking Lot
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