Duck, duck...goose! Birdie, birdie...eagle!

At some point during the conversation (most likely after a couple of beers) this motley group decided that playing 18 holes of golf would be fun. Sounded like a fantastic idea at the time. (This is where I must interject the fact that 2 of us had never played golf in our entire lives, 1 of us played a couple of horrible tournaments in his corporate life about 20 years ago, 1 of us recently played twice but has cool golf shoes so feels compelled to get his money's worth from the footwear, none of us owns golf clubs, one of us scored under 100 once...on 9 holes of miniature golf, one of us can drive a golf cart like Jimmy Johnson, none of us has a clue what the difference is between a putter, 9 iron, 7 wood, 3,6,8...whatever all those thingies were, and we opted to play in the morning - well before happy hour.) This was going to be interesting!!

"So, Brian...looks like you might have lost your 4th ball there." (this is hole #2)


"What do you mean I have to play...can't I just drive the cart and look cute? How do you hold this thing?"


"Chris, are you sure you have never played before? How do you hit it so straight? Are we bothering you when we keep talking while you are hitting? What club are you using?"


Paul insisted that a baseball swing would work with a golf club. He tried it every time.


"One more try, c'mon guys...let me try to hit it one more time...there's no 'three strikes and you're out' rule in golf...just one more..."


Finally, we resorted to the 'scramble' approach after several groups asked to 'play through'...whatever that means!


(tee-hee...he missed that putt from like 2 inches...must have been the shoes!!)


Who's idea was this??


Sometimes it isn't how you play the game...it's who you know!!!


"Wait...what?? Are you positive that the highest score is NOT the winner? But the guys told me the highest score wins. Seriously? Damn."