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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 10:56 PM
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Attention DU Golfers
A blind 89 year-old golfer recently made a hole-in-one. Who else has bragging rights?

Link: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/sports/102403_sp_golfer.html
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Ohio Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:31 PM
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1. I'm not blind. Or 89.
But I did hit a hole-in-one this year. 139 yd 9-iron. I'd come close before, but this one just happened to roll in. It helped counter the eight I took on the first hole.
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:45 PM
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2. All Right!
It seems all I can do is say a few words---usuaully the ones that get me escorted off the course.
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Ohio Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:48 PM
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3. That's about right for me too.
Just got lucky once is all.

And this is really frustrating: The more I golf, the worse I get. I usually start out pretty good (for me, anyway), but by this time of the year, I don't even want to go back.
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:53 PM
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4. Well, I Like To Show Up At The 19th Hole
Edited on Fri Oct-24-03 11:54 PM by Don_G
Whip out my notebook and then play a few courses on Links 2003. Better for the blood pressure and guarenteed to make a few new friends.

Easier than trying to stuff a big cooler in the back of the cart too.
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Ohio Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:55 PM
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5. Oh yeah, you can't skip the nineteenth hole.
Absolutely the easiest part of the course.

Man, I do love golf, and I do it often. I'm just not very good at it, dammit.
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:00 AM
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6. Same Here
Edited on Sat Oct-25-03 12:01 AM by Don_G
And the 19th hole is a time-honored tradition to the Scotsman who invented the game, the relaxation afterwards and the four-letter words to describe it. Besides, they had to take the chill off the wind blowing up their kilts.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:09 AM
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7. I quit golf
Though I love the game I just didn't have enough time. It's been almost three years. It's not really a game (at least for me) they I can play just casually and still enjoy it.

Do miss it though.
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:26 AM
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8. Within The Louisville City Limits
Are 29 golf courses plus 12 Country Clubs that I know of. It takes no more than 45 minutes to drive from one corner of the county to the other in rush hour traffic with another two PGA courses within a half-hour drive from the city limits.

I just wish my handicap wasn't 100+.
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