What is dew sweeper?
CyberCypher
news:b6jbb...@drn.newsguy.com:
> I saw the word in following;
>
> Even the best trousers in the world look horrible if they don't
> fit. So don't hesitate to wear slacks the next time you play golf,
> so long as you're not among the dew sweeper at 6 a.m.
At that time of the morning, there is usually dew (droplets of water)
on the grass and other greenery on a golf course, so a "dew sweeper" in
this context is someone who plays golf early in the morning and
"sweeps" ("removes") the dew from the grass before the sunshine has a
chance to evaporate the dew.
Tony Cooper
Actually, Cyber, there is such a thing as a dew sweeper. The
groundskeepers will go out early in the morning and stand on each
green with a rubber hose or a long bamboo pole. (I've seen both used)
and spin around sweeping the dew. The sweeper breaks up the dew and
makes it evaporate faster. The person that uses the sweeper is a
course employee and not a golfer.
I suppose it could refer to early golfers, because not all clubs send
someone out to do this. Usually it's done at private courses with
larger maintenance crews.
Our course sends out dew sweepers on weekends and on tournament days.
I've played early on weekdays, and putting is impossible until the dew
evaporates. A long putt will break your wrists.
--
Tony Cooper aka: tony_co...@yahoo.com
Provider of Jots, Tittles, and Oy!s
CyberCypher
news:ovhs8vo0vr1eau63l...@4ax.com:
> On 4 Apr 2003 08:06:22 GMT, CyberCypher <fra...@seed.net.tw>
> wrote:
>
>>East Man <East_...@newsguy.com> burbled
>>news:b6jbb...@drn.newsguy.com:
>>
>>> I saw the word in following;
>>>
>>> Even the best trousers in the world look horrible if they don't
>>> fit. So don't hesitate to wear slacks the next time you play
>>> golf, so long as you're not among the dew sweeper at 6 a.m.
>>
>>At that time of the morning, there is usually dew (droplets of
>>water) on the grass and other greenery on a golf course, so a "dew
>>sweeper" in this context is someone who plays golf early in the
>>morning and "sweeps" ("removes") the dew from the grass before the
>>sunshine has a chance to evaporate the dew.
>
> Actually, Cyber, there is such a thing as a dew sweeper.
I wasn't aware of that. I worked as a caddy at a ritzy private country
club in northern New Jersey back in the late '50s and early '60s, but
that club had no dew sweepers except for the early golfers. Thank you
for the update, Tony.
tomca...@yanospamhoo.com
> Actually, Cyber, there is such a thing as a dew sweeper. The
> groundskeepers will go out early in the morning and stand on each
> green with a rubber hose or a long bamboo pole. (I've seen both used)
> and spin around sweeping the dew. The sweeper breaks up the dew and
> makes it evaporate faster. The person that uses the sweeper is a
> course employee and not a golfer.
A little known fact it that dew sweepers form a mystic brotherhood,
older than the Masons. Their rites go back Ancient Greece and the worship
of Ersa on Mt. Olympus.
Tony Cooper
>I wasn't aware of that. I worked as a caddy at a ritzy private country
>club in northern New Jersey back in the late '50s and early '60s, but
>that club had no dew sweepers except for the early golfers. Thank you
>for the update, Tony.
I caddied at Meridian Hills Country Club, Indianapolis, in the early
50s. Two dollars for a single, and four dollars for a double if I
remember correctly. They usually added a tip to that, though.
I would also shag for members. I hasten to point out that "shag" had
a completely different meaning then than Austin Powers has given it
now. Shagging was standing in a field and retrieving golf balls hit
by a practicing member.
Caddying was a great experience. I learned how to shoot craps at the
caddy barn between rounds. I also learned never to play poker with
someone else's deck.
Mike Lyle
I ventured to pen a few pages on this little-known but enthralling
subject as a graduate student at West 'Gin Anabaptist. The brotherhood
at its height had adepts as far afield as Britain and Ireland; there
is some reason to believe that the voyage of St Brendan was in fact a
much larger expedition mounted by the Brethren to escape persecution
by the Picts. Its origins in Ersa-worship retain a curious echo in the
alternative name once given to the Irish Gaelic language. My attempts
to penetrate this aspect of the mystery met with resolute silence,
even among the most ancient texts; for that and other reasons too
complex for this brief note, I conclude that it holds the ultimate key
to the supernatural origin of the Irish people.
As often with such ancient cults, we find clear traces of their rites
even today in what to the untrained ear seem but innocent folklore and
nursery rhymes. I might adduce the English song with the refrain "Sing
blow away the morning dew, how sweet the winds do blow!", and the
Irish expression "morning dew" for privately-distilled whisky. That
spirit's proper name, "water of life", refers in reality to one of the
cult's deepest mysteries, carried out always in the most profound
secrecy. It is significant that the expression is not found for a
period of several hundred years in Wales or England, since it was
there that the later persecution of the Brethren by the Norman
overlords was carried out with its most brutal intensity: so much so
that it is believed that no present-day West-European adepts now exist
outside Ireland and Scotland.
The survival of an American chapter, practising under the cover of
operating golf courses, will come as no surprise -- given the
so-called "Brendan Voyage" -- since the essence of the cult is
nature-worship, always practised in small and carefully-tended open
spaces far from human habitation. (The game of golf was, I need hardly
mention, invented in Scotland.) The "Sweeping of the Dew" is an
essential preliminary to the daily cleansing ritual of the sacred
grass. Other herbs central to the worship are often grown discreetly
in other parts of the course.
See: Lyle, Michael, _How the Mountain Dew came to Augusta: Anomalies
in the Treatment of Ritual Aspects of the Ersa Cult and the Brendan
Voyage_, WVACP, 1971 rev.1972.
Mike.
Frances Kemmish
> On 5 Apr 2003 03:45:09 GMT, CyberCypher <fra...@seed.net.tw> wrote:
>
>
>>I wasn't aware of that. I worked as a caddy at a ritzy private country
>>club in northern New Jersey back in the late '50s and early '60s, but
>>that club had no dew sweepers except for the early golfers. Thank you
>>for the update, Tony.
>
>
> I caddied at Meridian Hills Country Club, Indianapolis, in the early
> 50s. Two dollars for a single, and four dollars for a double if I
> remember correctly. They usually added a tip to that, though.
>
> I would also shag for members. I hasten to point out that "shag" had
> a completely different meaning then than Austin Powers has given it
> now. Shagging was standing in a field and retrieving golf balls hit
> by a practicing member.
>
No doubt I've mentioned this before: I can still remember my
consternation at reading, in the local paper, a lady saying that her
sons made a little money in the summer by shagging golfballs.
Fran
Robert Lieblich
>
> Tony Cooper wrote:
[ ... ]
> > I caddied at Meridian Hills Country Club, Indianapolis, in the early
> > 50s. Two dollars for a single, and four dollars for a double if I
> > remember correctly. They usually added a tip to that, though.
> >
> > I would also shag for members. I hasten to point out that "shag" had
> > a completely different meaning then than Austin Powers has given it
> > now. Shagging was standing in a field and retrieving golf balls hit
> > by a practicing member.
> >
>
> No doubt I've mentioned this before: I can still remember my
> consternation at reading, in the local paper, a lady saying that her
> sons made a little money in the summer by shagging golfballs.
Thank goodness they weren't baseball players shagging flies.
<http://www.efqreview.com/NewFiles/v18n1/baseballpoetry-shagging.html>.
--
Bob Lieblich
Teller of the occasional shaggy dog story
tomca...@yanospamhoo.com
Tony Cooper
wrote:
>See: Lyle, Michael, _How the Mountain Dew came to Augusta: Anomalies
>in the Treatment of Ritual Aspects of the Ersa Cult and the Brendan
>Voyage_, WVACP, 1971 rev.1972.
Evidently, there are no female members of the cult. More fodder for
Martha Burk. Hootie, though, has declined Mountain Dew's sponsorship
of the event.
Andy Dingley
<tony_co...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Actually, Cyber, there is such a thing as a dew sweeper. The
>groundskeepers will go out early in the morning and stand on each
>green with a rubber hose or a long bamboo pole. (I've seen both used)
>and spin around sweeping the dew. The sweeper breaks up the dew and
>makes it evaporate faster.
There's also a UK (?) landscape artist who has made (very transitory!)
works in a similar manner by selectively sweeping patterns.
Linz
"Andy Dingley" <din...@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
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Andy Goldsworthy?
Wood Avens
You're probably thinking of Andy Goldsworthy. There's a few of his
pieces here, but no dew-sweeping pictures.
http://cgee.hamline.edu/see/goldsworthy/see_an_andy.html
--
Katy Jennison
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Andy Dingley
<woodav...@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>You're probably thinking of Andy Goldsworthy.
No, I'm familiar with Goldsworthy ( I even have most of his
staggeringly over-priced books). I'm pretty sure this was someone
else.
It might even have been me (I've been known to do this sort of thing),
but I'm never up that early !