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The Downhill Lie
This months Mile High magazine cartoon as golf get’s going. I gave up the game years ago because it just wasn’t safe to be on the course with me. I beaned more than one guy in my time on the course throughout the years. So it was for the best. Don’t forget our caption contest is still on until 4 p.m. Thursday. Keep those entries coming!
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Good Morning from Omaha,
I still think I am the worlds worst golfer,but I have yet to hit anyone with a golf ball, so there is still hope for me. Not much but a little…some of the best memories I have with my son include going fishing with him and playing a round or two on the course. He has gotten better to the point where all I can do is just admire him, and he is always there for a tip or two about my game.
He was home late last summer and we took my wife out to a little par 3 course. You should have watched him coach her as she played her first round of golf and she loved it to the point where she wants to get out and play some this spring and summer, which is a good thing.
Strive for excellence, nothing but your best.
Gene
I first stepped onto the golf course at the age of four or five, with my dad. I’m not sure what he was thinking, other than to get in some good father-daughter time, while he swung a stick at a tiny white ball. I acted as his pseudo-caddy…dragging his bag from one hole to the other, on the little 9-hole course in Salida. Thank goodness he had one of those two-wheeled bag carriers! I took my first lessons from him on that course, and in our backyard, where we would practice our putting. We also spent countless hours watching the greats of golf, on television, in the 1960s. Memories I will never forget.
It was another ten or eleven years before I picked up a club again, taking golf as a class in high school. These days, I’m all about putt-putt golf. It is less expensive, and the Mall of America has a great indoor miniature golf experience, that is only about three miles from where I live.
Today, on this Saturday, I am remembering Seve Ballesteros. What a champion of the game, and a gentleman on and off the course. He fought a hard battle against cancer and never gave up. May all who knew and loved him, be comforted in their mourning. He is no longer suffering or in pain, and now at peace – playing golf on the greatest fairways in heaven.
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