It is always nice when someone you know does well.

I was rally rooting for Phil this time. I'm so glad
he won it. No one deserves it more.

I'd be happy if I could play golf--even a little bit.

I broke one of the bones in my left arm at the elbow
joint, and now can't totally straighten out that arm,
which put the end to my golfing. Surgery made it
worse. I've considered trying to learn golf again
leftie--where I would not need to have the left arm
straight. I can imagine how bad I'd be.

On the other hand, if I can tough through the
considerable pain I get when I connect on a solid
right handed drive, maybe the scar tissue will start
to break down and it will fix itself. Self torture
is not my forte, or I would have become a physical
therapist. Perhaps I'll take a few trips to the
driving range, with something for the pain, and see
what happens.

When I was a teenager, I worked as a caddie. On slow
days, and when the ponds were low, my brother and I'd
collect golf balls. We'd go into the trash bins and
pull out all the original boxes, and repackage what we
found. One day we totaled it up. We had two dozen,
dozen boxes, in new boxes. That's two gross! grin

They were all sorted by brand and condition. Our most
prized were the perfect Titleist big dimples. Each
in individual three pack boxes--sorted by the numbers
on the balls into three packs. These were new balls
hit once without a mark on them.

The quality and grading decreased down to the gashed
balls we would tee up on the top of our hill, and use
to try to hit the neighbors house. Every once in a
while, we'd connect and worry we might actually make
a 300 yard drive and hit it. I've sure they found many
unexplained golf balls in their yard over the years.

The nicer balls we didn't want to use, and we finally
settled on the plan of giving them to our Aunt Barbara
for Christmas gifts. We kept her in supply for
probably 15 years, apologizing towards the end for
the lesser quality of our gifts.

How is your golf Donal? Are you a leftie or a rightie?

Bart


"Donal" wrote

I was very disappointed to see Rose collapse today. He is a member at a
local club, and my instructor has played with him several times.