Beaned! (Another indictment of trees)

[Peter Wagner]

Perhaps you would have better golf karma if you supported your local pro.

Literally and truly insult on top of injury! 

That calls for some emoticons!
 

[John Kavanaugh]

I bought a Sun Mountain push cart from my local pro yesterday and when he started to explain the great price I told him...Of course it is a great price because if it wasn't all the other members would buy at Dicks.

[Dan Kelly]

What happened to the "Delete Post" option?

[Dan Kelly]

The ball was a Taylormade Black Tour LDP (I think I've got that right. $39.99 per dozen at Golfsmith).

Just as I suspected:
http://www.taylormadegolf.com/product_detail.asp?pID=205&section=gallery#Large

A cheater's line!!!

I hadn't noticed.

Don't *all* balls have "cheater" lines, nowadays, if one is inclined to "cheat"?

[W.H. Cosgrove]

Do you really think the course manager is going to call?

He already did! Last night, when we were at my sister's house for dinner.

When I call him back, I think I'll just refer him to this thread and ask that he think about the amendments I've just proposed to John Conley.

I'm impressed! 

[Garland Bayley]

...
If there were just one counter-example of someone WINNING a lawsuit because the trees blocked his view of an incoming shot, we'd be in the clear.

What jury on earth would believe that a person could see an incoming shot and avoid it without spending all his time watching all the other players in the vicinity of himself hit their shots?

[JohnV]

I had a similar incident in the trees between the 9th and 18th holes at Spring Valley Golf Course in the SF Bay Area when I was a kid.  I had hit a shot there while playing 9 and while walking to my ball a player on 18 hit one that hit me square in the back.  Because of the trees, he couldn't see me either.

No wonder I liked Oakmont so much.

[Dan Kelly]

Just  a short addendum:

One detail I neglected to mention, in my first report, was that I was suffering from a blister on the top right side of my left index finger, after a long practice session Sunday at a nearby pitching/chipping green. I was having trouble holding my interlocking grip together -- so I told my cousin, as we walked from the fourth green to the fifth tee, that I might try modifying my grip.

I hit the tee shot (smother pull) with a modified baseball grip (10-finger, with left thumb down shaft).

And then, of course, KABOOM! Right on the noggin.

Yesterday, when I mentioned to my cousin that I had,  in fact, hit the most recent drive of my life with a baseball grip, he told me that the one time Lee Trevino tried a baseball grip was the same time he got hit by lightning.

Let this be a lesson to us all!

(The lesson: Don't practice so long that you get weird blisters.)

[Rich Goodale]

Dan

To get this back on topic....

The only time I ever saw someone seriously hurt on a golf course it was at my only round at Merion.  We were playing the 5th (I think) and out from somewhere in the Dallas Estate part of the property a cart with a guy gushing blood out of his forehead zoomed past us.  I think after a long shower and a bowl of turtle soup he was OK.  However, I blame it all of Macdonald and Whigham!  If they had stuck to Barker's routing and a 6,000 yards course, none of that would have ever happened.

So, who routed your golf course and why?

Caringly

Rich

[Dan Kelly]

So, who routed your golf course and why?

Rich --

It's not my course. I really don't know. I'll look it up.

All I know now is: It wasn't God!

Well cared for,
Dan

[Dan Kelly]

So, who routed your golf course and why?

Rich --

It's not my course. I really don't know. I'll look it up.

All I know now is: It wasn't God!

Well cared for,
Dan

The only attribution I've found, so far, is to a "Donald G. Brauer."

Any relation to our own Keffrey Bauer?

Inquiring minds....

[Peter Wagner]

Dan,

How are you feeling buddy?  Are ya back to yet?

Cheers 
- Peter

[Rich Goodale]

Mr. Wagner

You really do NOT want to get in Mr. Huntley's bad books....

One emoticon per post in the future, please.


Mr. Goodale