Two things are bugging me today that I just have to tell you about. The game is great we know but there are things about it that just make you want to give it a buried lie in a bunker and a 2-wood to get it out.
First, and I would have linked to it if it were online, is Bob Verdi’s Reporters Notebook piece in the June 20 issue of Golf World.
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Verdi reports that at Torrey Pines you can a) jump off a cliff in a hang-glider and b) land it on the nude beach just below the course. What you can’t do at Torrey Pines is smoke a cigar…no I’m not talking about the clubhouse…you can’t fire it up outside…no joke.
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I’m not sure which I would do first…jump off a cliff or look at hairy men with their dingles dangling…hmmm…that’s a toughie. Think I’ll go for the Robusto…the cigar that is.
Second, and this is a beauty. In the latest issue of TIME there’s a blurby piece on the dangers golf carts pose to the general public. Between 1990 and 2007 the number of visits to emergency rooms for golf cart mishaps has increased 100%. So of course some lawmakers want to pass laws restricting their use by age as well as require the use of helmets.
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Now that’s a good one. Pick up your welcome gift in the pro shop…tees, ballmarker, divot tool all in a nice drawstring bag that you actually paid about a hundred bucks for because the greens fee is so high…then check in with Tiffany over there to sign out your helmet.
I’m having trouble seeing the logic here. It seems to me if we do nothing all the golf carts in the world will be at Louie’s Range Ball Warehouse and Golf Cart Salvage in about 50 years…and that would be a bad thing?
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