Played tonight. Fun finishing in the dark.
Gotta relay this story, what happened tonight. Pretty nutty. On the way to the course, I passed an old dude (60+) on a rickety bike, carrying what looked like a bunch of fishing equipment.
Parked and, on the way through the lot, here comes old dude. Fishing equipment is actually a bunch of golf clubs randomly sticking out of a blanket (turns out it was a sleeping bag, he would tell me). Anyway, Jeff and I ended up playing together. Old dude was a homeless window cleaner with nothing but a bicycle and his clubs.
The stories that he told me would knock your socks off. 9 yrs in jail, watched the prisoner advocate (?) get stuck with a shiv through the heart, when the put him on a gurny it collapsed (old dude laughed and said that must have hurt more than the shiv). He said he got four hard taps on the shoulder during that episode, it was Jesus telling him to straighten his shite up, which he did. Much more on that, but I'll move on.
The AMAZING thing turned out that this dude, with 5 clubs, was a FREAKING GOLF PHENOM!!! I've never seen anything like it, and I've golfed a lot. Played from the blues, he drove a country mile, irons always on the green, and they STUCK, and he putted with his chipper. I asked him if he needed to borrow my putter, and he said no he had one, but it's a little rusty so he's just doing belly shots with his chipper. He said a belly shot is when you hit the belly of the ball with the thin part of your chipper. He was hitting them IN from 10' plus like this! Crazy. He rolled up a spliff and smoked it on the 14.
On the 17 over the water, he hit the trap. He had a nice shot out of it, but slipped walking out. Showed me the bottom of his shoes - bald. His bike has no breaks, he has to use his feet haha.
He totally corrected my drive. I'm not kidding you, gave me a lesson I'll never forget - using two tees, etc, but I swear after his little lesson I'm banging!
I'm shaken I'll tell you. He was not some nutbag, it was like getting an unexpected visit from a homeless Bobby Jones.
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