Drabble by Kevin Fagan for November 17, 2024

19th hole?

No mulligans or double bogies?

Amazing!

Are those actual golf terms? The only golf I’ve ever played is miniature golf… and I’ve never heard those terms there.

Dogleg would’ve been pretty obvious.

A hook in the hazard and a slice in the takeaway!

Watch out for the windmills … very tricky!

“Wally! I said Tee!”

Him working in the garage- a putter, his wife doing the laundry-an iron, his old beat up car-a caddy, his teeth after eating a salad-the green.

I think I figured out most of theze, but what does “casual water” mean?

“Takeaway” could also have been “slice”.

Not a golfer by any means. I recognize all the terms except, “Casual Water”?

Nice parallels here between Wally and golf. Cool one.

In high school one of our choices for gym class was golf. I am NOT athletic at all so rather than hockey or whatever else was offered I took golf – after all I had played (poorly) miniature golf many times. We played golf in the gym using a small doll’s wig (Tammy size if anyone remembers her) on the floor instead. I was not good at it, but at least I did not have to deal my fear of heights or my trouble running (fat kid, fat adult) so it was relatively fun.

Go ahead about 4 or 5 years and I am dating my husband. His family is going on a trip to a major upstate NY hotel and we went with them. Husband had golf lessons when he was younger as, according to his dad – “one cannot be a businessman without knowing how to play golf”. (Husband was never a businessman.) So with his classes in same and my playing of doll hair wig playing we went out on the 9 hole course (“No one who is serious about golf will play there so ‘we’ won’t bother them.”) to play a game using husband’s clubs.

Did we do well? Ummm. we lost a hole somewhere, somehow and played 8 holes not 9. He hit the ball far, but curving in one direction or another. I hit the ball straight, but only a shortish distance. But we did have fun and have never again attempted to play golf.