25 Aug 06 A Good Walk Spoiled
A friend of mine who is an exceptional golfer played a round with an elder and a couple of church members his first week on the job. After striking a ball, not so well, he gently tossed his club back toward the direction of the cart. The club traveled with greater force than he anticipated (so he says) covered the distance to the cart in the air stopping upon imact with the canopy strut of the cart. Upon said impact the club broke in two. Way to make a great first impression.
I had that on my mind as I went to play golf this morning with an elder and two members. I’m happy to report that I broke no clubs. I damaged no carts. I said no curse words (that anyone could hear). And 6 more golf balls were added to the kingdom via the waters of baptism.
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You’re throwing your clubs in the water now? Not a good sign.
As a good buddy of mine once told me on a golf course after I had pounded the head of my 6 into the turf:
“A good craftsman never blames his tools”
To which I believe I replied:
“And only a tool would look at that shot and think me a craftsman, so there you go.”
I’ve baptized dozens and dozens of golf balls, but never clubs.
For golf lovers and haters, Who’s Your Caddy? by Rick Reilly is hilarious look at golf from an SI writer who caddy for people like Bob Newhart, John Daly, Tom Lehman, Deepak Chopra etc. Rick caddied (looped) one or more rounds for each of these professional and wannabes and what he writes will definitely get you laughing.
A cart we sometimes get at our local golf course has a huge gash in the fiberglass windshield that’s about the shape of a sand wedge. I’m glad I didn’t get to see that.
Peace.
If you held on to all of your clubs (and senses) then you just might make it at your new church.
I was playing (landscaping as we call it) golf with a good friend on mine in S.C. (thats South Carolina for you westerners) when I witnessed something that goes beyond throwing a measly club or 6.
We were getting ready to tee off when we watched a golfter on the fairway next to us hit his approach shot in a pond. He didn’t just throw a club or 6. Instead, he drove up to the pond, jump out of his cart, unbuckled his bag, and threw the entire bag into the pond. He did this as we’re yelling, “No, no, don’t do that” to no avail.
After he had ejected his bag, he looked at us and said, “It’s O.K., I make my own clubs.”
Sorry to disappoint everyone but I meant to say golf BALLS and not golf CLUBS. I paid too much money for my golf clubs to lose (or I guess in the context SAVE) them like that.