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If you watch enough golf, you’ve absorbed a piece of folk wisdom: the leader after 54 holes plays worse on Sunday. The lead shrinks, the back nine eats people alive, and somebody you’d never bet on walks off with the trophy. Commentators reach for the word choke. Players reach for the word pressure. The flip side of the same coin is clutch: the player who shows up on Sunday and plays like the moment isn’t there.
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Since 2022, more than thirty PGA Tour pros have left for the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league, lured by guaranteed contracts reportedly worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. The complaint from those who stayed has been blunt: LIV’s 54-hole, no-cut, shotgun-start format is “exhibition golf,” and players who take the money will get rusty. The defectors say the opposite — that the lighter schedule lets them practice harder and play fresher. So who’s right?
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There is an image of Scottie Scheffler that I cannot stop thinking about.
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Every March, cable news runs the same reel: ambulances on the beach, students on stretchers, a grim-faced anchor reading the latest death toll. The coverage makes spring break look like the most dangerous week on the American calendar. But is it?
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A typical homeowner in Hays County is governed by Hays County, Hays CISD, the city they live in (or, if unincorporated, no city at all), an Emergency Services District, possibly a Municipal Utility District or Water Control and Improvement District, the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District or Edwards Aquifer Authority, a river authority (GBRA or LCRA), the Hays Central Appraisal District, and — for most subdivisions built since 2000 — a homeowners association.
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Hays CISD voters approved $968.65 million in school bonds in May 2025. Six months later, the same district asked them to raise the operating tax rate by 12 cents per $100 of valuation. They said no — 60 percent to 40 percent.
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The previous two posts looked at how fast Hays County is growing and at the range of forecasts for how big it might get. Both ended on the same question that nobody in the county can dodge for much longer. Where will the water come from?
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Hays County has roughly 300,000 people today. How many will it have in 2040? In 2060?
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If you drive south from Austin on I-35, you can feel the moment you cross into Hays County. Not because of a sign — though there is one — but because the landscape opens up. New subdivisions in various stages of completion. Warehouse pads with fresh concrete. A strip center waiting for tenants. The feeling of a place in motion — growing into something, and doing it quickly.
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A typical homeowner in Hays County is governed by Hays County, Hays CISD, the city they live in (or, if unincorporated, no city at all), an Emergency Services District, possibly a Municipal Utility District or Water Control and Improvement District, the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District or Edwards Aquifer Authority, a river authority (GBRA or LCRA), the Hays Central Appraisal District, and — for most subdivisions built since 2000 — a homeowners association.
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Hays CISD voters approved $968.65 million in school bonds in May 2025. Six months later, the same district asked them to raise the operating tax rate by 12 cents per $100 of valuation. They said no — 60 percent to 40 percent.
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The previous two posts looked at how fast Hays County is growing and at the range of forecasts for how big it might get. Both ended on the same question that nobody in the county can dodge for much longer. Where will the water come from?
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Hays County has roughly 300,000 people today. How many will it have in 2040? In 2060?
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If you drive south from Austin on I-35, you can feel the moment you cross into Hays County. Not because of a sign — though there is one — but because the landscape opens up. New subdivisions in various stages of completion. Warehouse pads with fresh concrete. A strip center waiting for tenants. The feeling of a place in motion — growing into something, and doing it quickly.