... today.
I played 7 holes of golf this afternoon.
It's been a scorcher of a day so I waited until after 4pm before going out. The T20 Women's cricket looked like Australia were going to thrash us again so I didn't mind missing out.
I played the second nine of the course which I rarely play, preferring the first nine. I started off very well on the number 10 par 5 and scored a birdie (4) for the first time ever on this hole, Beauty!
I played the next hole, the 11th well scoring a par 4. I was happy.
Heading off over a bridge across a stream to the 12th hole (par 5) I spied some joker making a bee-line across several fairways towards me. I ignored him. As I set up on the tee of the 12th this joker called out to me asking if he could join me to play. WTF! I called back "No, I prefer to play on my own". He wasn't expecting this response and sort of stopped and said "Oh". I didn't feel guilty as I like to play golf at my own pace and not be pressured or delayed by someone else. What the hell was he thinking? Was he lonely? Was he friendless? I thought about referring him to one of my old blog posts about The Friendless Society (Ivor Cutler) but thought he might not understand. Anyway, I didn't want to encourage him into conversation. He wandered off and I teed off very well ending up with a par 5.
I got a par (3) on the 13th but then my golf deteriorated and I badly played the 14th and the 4th but got a par(4) on the 3rd. I don't think that Jesus/God/Godman was watching. That's probably just as well because he seems to be a stickler for the rules and would have disapproved of me mixing and matching the holes I played.
I hope that this post doesn't cause any Christians reading this to remove their blogs.
9 comments:
Now I know what reading my violin posts must be like!
I bought some very expensive strings for my violin yesterday and broke the golden E string while putting it on. Fortunately I found a spare in my music accessories drawer. The three surviving strings sound very nice.
Just giving you another comment, now that we're down to the two of us.
I was up early this morning but stayed in bed until 6am. I won't be playing golf today, but I know you're happy playing on your own. I play the violin on my own too, most of the time. Hey, remember at tennis that you'll need to play with others. Ciao.
Here's another comment. Well, when one gets up early, one has a lot of time.
A lot of time.
There’s always’The Friendless Society’.
Or playing golf (alone).
This post has been around for a while.
Will you post again sometime?
Sorry, I forgot to press the 'publish' button.
Nice to see that you're waiting desperately for a new post though.
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