Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Fore!
| Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. -- Winston Churchill Years ago I used to play golf. Lots of golf. When I lived in Conyers, we lived right beside the golf course. It's amazing how spolied you can get like that. But since then I really haven't played any golf. I am sure it's only a coincidence that around the time I started eating Krystals is also around the time I stopped playing golf. I have played golf one time since I was in high school. My dear friend Halle was getting married and the Groomsmen all went out to play a round of golf. They were all good friends of the groom and they all played fairly regularly. I opted to play. I should have opted to stay in the cart or go to one of the bridal showers or something. I have a few picture from that game of golf but I won't go digging them out or posting them. I prefer to stick with the happy memories of Halle's wedding that weekend and not the events on the links. I was using rented clubs, and if you know much about golf I am sure you can understand the folly of using a "set" of clubs assembled from the lost and found at the pro-shop. At least I will claim until my dying day that the rental clubs were the reason I played so poorly. On that note, one thing I have discovered is that golfers and fishermen are some of the most prolific liars on Earth. I suspect the reason fishermen are more commonly thought of as "creative historians" is that they actually have to produce results in the form of fish. Golfers simply have to write numbers down on paper. I suspect this is also why the little pencils you get with your golf scorecard do not have erasers on them. Anyway, the reason I am talking of golf is that I have recently picked up this little gem. While I no longer play golf, and have never been a golf ball collector, I simply had to have this one, I am sure you understand why.   |
