The legend

I'm writing this in response to the letter Murray Loomis wrote Feb. 8.

He says he has spent over half-century in the golf business, from building courses to operating them. Let's see, that is over 50 years.

He has said many times that he has lived in Pahrump for 14 years. Has he built or run any courses in those 12 years? No.

Let us think by some miracle he started building and operating courses at 20 years of age, 20 + 50 + 14 = 84 years.

Are you 84 years old, Mr. Loomis? Or is this just more smoke? This is not counting all the other careers he has talked about.

Mr. Loomis, the present owner of Willow Creek, has been one of the owners since Oct. 21, 2004. They have had four years to fix the course and to promote it (PV Times Oct. 15, 2004). If you knew anything about golf or the golf business, you could see that the present operators don't have a clue.

Mr. Loomis says "The two courses are maintained through recycled water at no taxpayer cost." When do taxpayers pay for any kind of water used for a private business?

Mr. Loomis, if you choose to respond, don't blow any more smoke. Name one course you built or operated. I will look it up and if it is true that you were the builder or operator, I will apologize.

You told some junior golfers at Lakeview last summer that you finished 12th in the Buick Invitational one year. This is the information age. I have searched the Internet and there is no record of a Murray Loomis having played any PGA Tour event, ever.

You may have driven a Buick or worked on one. Maybe someone invited you to put your golf bag inside of a Buick. That may have confused you.

Golf is a game of honor; please apologize to these impressionable youths.

Here is another Murray-ism: "I pay the USGA $50 a year and every time I have a hole-in-one they send me $1,000." What B.S.

Murray Loomis, you are a legend in your own mind.

D. LUTRELL

I am offended

I was in our neighborhood Wal-Mart store on Friday evening and was appalled at a T-shirt a teenager was wearing.

I can't believe that Wal-Mart would all this teen in the store as what was on his shirt was so offensive to me (a 69-year-old man).

So I can't imagine what a young mother with small children would feel as they come into line and see a T-shirt that read "You Are F%&king Useless."

I don't feel there is anything wrong with young people expressing themselves but this has gone over the line of political correctness.

If these young people want to be as vulgar as they please, so be it, but it should be restricted to their own circles, not forced on the general public.

DOMENIC P. COPPLA