At 6:10 am this morning I had a golfing epiphany. I parked on the street and played "the horseshoe" as we call it, holes 3,4,& 5. I do this early morning therapy quite often on the way to work, usually I play the holes 1 or 2 over par and get in the car and leave,but this morning I birdied all 3. The 6th hole is right across the street, a short par4, so as I was on a roll ,I deviated from my normal routine and decided to play 6.
The view of the hole from the tee in the early morning light is exceptional, there is a row of bunkers down the right side that epitomize our restoration effort(they can be seen in the course profile section of GCA Charles River). Until this morning I hadn't realized that no sand can be seen from the tee just the grass mounding, cool.
I kind of healed a lazy fade out there and didn't see the ball bounce which means that I had not cleared the last fairway bunker, a sure bogey or worse as the bunker is 145 yards from the green and deep, I don't have a 145 wedge or nine iron in my golfing arsenal.
Sooo, I went loping down the fairway smugly reveling in the brilliance of the restored bunkers and the fact that they were again a real hazard because of the fact that they were back to their original depth, yada,yada,yada.
As I walked closer to the last bunker, BAM! The epiphany hit me, and this little diddy popped in to my head:
Twinkle twinkle little star
I hit it in the bunker,and found a f...... CAR!
To my amazement there was a Honda Civic in the bunker and I couldn't see it until I was twenty yards from the bunker!
Apparently a local group of college students became ah, "disoriented" in the rain storm last night and drove in to the bunker via the maintainence shed service road. At least that's the story the Newton cops got.
At any rate, I think golf has a new tool for determining the correct depth of fairway bunkers on short par 4's, the Honda Civic. It may become as useful as the stimpmeter. I broached the subject with our superintendent when he arrived on the scene, but he was too busy laughing his ass off to offer an opinion. Seems simple enough to me. What a strange world we live in.