Just saw a hilarious ad

[kliljedahl]

Just about choked I was laughing so hard. I don't play golf (don't look good in plaid & other reasons) so I wasn't aware of this place:

"Purgatory Golf Club, where golf is a religious experience"


http://www.kliljedahl.net

[DulceDecorum]

1. Golf transcends terrorism

KEVIN SHAEFFER: Yes. From very early on, my burn doctor, Dr. Marion Jordan from the Washington Hospital Center, told me that if I didn't keep working my hands and keep flexing them, that I would very likely never be able to make a fist. And I was a very avid golfer before 9/11, and so the golf grip on the club is a very important part of your game. And I knew that if I ever wanted to play golf again, I had to heed his advice and his words. And so I worked very hard.

When I got home from the hospital I spent many weeks on the couch watching public television and C-Span and things like that, and always next to my side was a four-iron, or a golf club where I could work my hands around them, and at first I couldn't get a full grip. But as the weeks and months passed, I was able to get that grip back, and for that I'm very thankful because I have today basically full range of motion, completely normal as it was before 9/11.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec03/burn_extended.html

There, but for the grace with which he swings his golf club,
go I.
A miracle.

Almost as good as that experienced by Juan Cruz-Santiago who was at the Pentagon on September 11 where his contact lenses were melted onto his eyeballs by the extreme heat, which somehow left his hair, eyebrows and mustache intact. Luckily Juan Cruz-Santiago can still see and required little assistance to fill out his claim for $6.8 million dollars from the Victim Compensation Fund.

We are unsure as to the role that golf played in this particular recovery.