Forth Worth Stck Yards

Jimmy Walker's Colonial diary: Day 1

FORT WORTH, Texas -- PGA Tour golfer Jimmy Walker has volunteered to chat with us each day about his round, the Fort Worth scene and his life in general. He came to the course on Wednesday to get nine holes in, but was not scheduled to play in the Pro-Am. Here are his thoughts:

Q: When did you arrive and what do you think of the course?

JW: I got in here midday yesterday and my back has been a little sore, so I played nine holes yesterday just to see it because I've never played here before. I played the front nine. Today, I got here early and played the back nine. It's a great course. I live in San Antonio and play at Oak Hills and everyone told me it would remind of that and it did. It's an old-school golf course. The whole course is in a confined area. You walk off the green and the tee box is right there. With the modern golf courses, we have 100 yard walks to the next hole. It's nice to get back to roots golf course, the older courses. The trees can visually mess with your head and they look like they can be a nuisance even though they aren't on some holes. That's a good design. There's good bunkering too. A bunker that's 70 yards away can look like it's right in front of the green from the tee. These have to be some of the smaller greens on Tour next to Harbor Town.

Q: You've got any plans this week outside of the golf?

A: With the baby (Walker has an 11-month-old son named Mclain) and everything, when you get a wek by yourself, it's nice to chill out, get some sleep and do your own thing. There's a place in Dallas called "The Observatory." It's a telescope store. I've been getting into astro-photography. I was always into telescopes as a kid and started thinking about it a year ago and wanted to get a telescope for the back yard. Started looking up and was disappointed because living in a city, the sky is light polluted. The only way I can see anything is to stick a camera on the back and do long exposure. I got some gear to do that and found out it's not as easy as you'd think it would be. But I've learned a lot and it's giving me something to keep the brain working. It's fun to learn new stuff.

The Fort Worth Stockyards Company, Ft. Worth Texas Historical ...

The Fort Worth Stock Yards Company was created in 1893, when Boston capitalist Greenlief W. Simpson led a group of investors in purchasing the Fort Worth Union Stock Yards. Under Simpson’s leadership, the Company earned the support of the Texas Cattle Raisers Association and lured the prominent meatpacking companies of Armour and Swift to open plants here. Publicity through the Company’s market newspaper and annual Fat Stock Show, both begun in 1896, resulted in a significant increase in the number of animals brought to market. The Stock Yards Co. built the area’s livestock-related facilities and had controlling interest in many North Fort Worth businesses and properties. The first five decades of the 20th Century were the most successful for the Fort Worth Stock Yards Co. During World War I, foreign governments purchased draft animals, making Fort Worth the largest horse and mule market in the world. In 1917, overall livestock market receipts reached 3,500,000 and in 1944, sales exceeded 5,000,000 head of livestock. However, by the 1950s, local auctions were drawing sellers away from this central market. Today the Fort Worth Stock Yards Co. continues as a significant part of the city’s unique heritage. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986.

Thinking Forth

Worth

Starting FORTH, an introduction to the FORTH language and operating system for beginners and professionals

Forth, a complete course in the Forth programming language

Forth, the Spirit of Missions