Since I’ve resolved to add a post every week, there will be times I have absolutely nothing to write about except nonsense.
A few weeks back I played in KGNS – a note: they have closed down one of the championship 9…not for good, but for maintenance. They are revamping the greens and bunkers. So the schedule is that it will be closed till maybe June, and then the next championship 9 will be revamped. This leaves us to play 1 championship 9 before hopping over to play one of the mickey mouse course.
We opted to play the 1st and 3rd, because there were more par 5s. I am a pretty decent driver of the ball, but we have one guy who is closing on to 60 years old and he hits it an absolute mile. He’s a former national cager, hockey trainee, badminton…basically his hand eye coordination is perfect. The par 5 7th on the back nine, he absolutely murdered the ball. For our sixer match, he and I were partnered and we played like absolute buffoons, going down dormie 3. For a sixer, you understand, we got whipped in the first 3 holes.
So there he was around 230 meters to the green, and I was in the jungle on the left for my second shot. He absolutely gunned his 3 wood to about 10 feet from the hole to set up an eagle putt downhill. For me, I hit an absolute perfect 9 iron for my 3rd shot, in the trees that dunked to about 4 feet from the hole, uphill putt.
We were already down 3 and you know what we were thinking:
1) I sink a birdie = 1 fringe
2) He sinks his eagle = 6 fringes
3) Both of us par or better = 1 fringe
We could literally turn from zeros to heros and save the game and win everything even if we lost the game.
He putts, and was too cautious, to about 4 feet. He yells out in frustration and in recognition of his stupidity.
He is still away. He misses his birdie putt. 3 putt from 10 feet. He is probably feeling like the biggest moron alive.
I hit my putt too hard, didn’t catch the break and remained stunned as my birdie went away.
From 8 fringes, we just got 1, i.e both of us made par.
You can bet, we never heard the end of this from the other team all the way through lunch.