Have I mentioned lately that I'm dabbling in golf? Well, that may not be accurate; to call my feeble attempts "dabbling" is like handing your nephew a $5 microscope and declaring he's dabbling in quantum physics. Whatever the case, I have hit the driving range a few times lately with one Mr. Zyvarb and I have a full report on the experience.
Like everyone says, golf is really hard. It is also fun whenever I occasionally manage to stop flailing the clubs around like a lunatic and make contact with the ball. That doesn't happen much. A typical 5 stroke sequence for me is:
Whiff
Whiff
Strike ground 2 feet in front of ball, lodging club in dirt
Whiff
Solidly struck ball that goes 2" off the ground for a good 80'
It keeps me humble. One other thing that keeps me humble is that my golfing amigo and I just discovered that some of the clubs we were sharing are actually women's clubs. In our defense, we know nothing about golf; we just picked up the metal things in the bag and started swinging them around. They could just as easily have been shovels or rakes for all we knew. The facts can't be avoided, though: a number of the clubs say Lady Cobra on them.
My masculinity is not threatened. Sure, I've been seen in public, flailing away miserably with a set of borrowed women's clubs. I'm just going to assume, though, that a lot of those people thought I was the spokesman for Lady Cobra, trying to make an ill-conceived point on gender equality. I'll take that over an idiot who can neither play golf nor read the word Lady on his clubs.
Posted by Cody at March 27, 2007 8:32 PM