Slaying the Dragon
by WooJin Kim · Charm Regent Ltd. · June 1, 2008 - page(s): 57-61
Here I am, on the road again — apologies to Willie Nelson. Long plane rides give you lots of time to do stuff … read, watch movies, do some work and most of all, to think. While on a recent flight to Asia (let me tell you about LONG flights) I did all of the above, as is my normal custom. Maybe it was flight fatigue or the wine, but a phrase kept going through my mind: “Slaying the Dragon.”
You see, I had just read a VERY long (30 pages!) article in a golf magazine about how golf courses can and should be environmentally friendly. I had also just recently re-watched a movie called Dragonslayer, in which a “knight of the old order” played by Dennis Quaid was on a lifelong hunt to slay dragons. The dragon in the movie represented something potentially unattainable or very difficult to attain.
The article about golf courses got me thinking — how can you possibly make a good golf course be completely environmentally friendly? I mean golf courses are pretty and all — and I’m an avid golfer — but seriously, they use a lot of water, pesticides and take up lots of land. Not stuff your typical environmentalist takes as a good thing. So how can someone possibly make a golf course truly environmentally friendly? Talk about a dragon to slay!
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