"Bump and Fun"

[ForkaB]

While writing elsewhere, I made this serendipitous tyop, and thought I'd post it here just to preserve my copyright.

Doesn't "bump and fun" much better portray what is going on with these golf shots than "bump and run?"

[Philip Gawith]

Absolutely, especially when you are trying to run it onto the green and it leaks into the greenside bunker.

[ForkaB]

More fun when your opponent runs it into the bunker, no?

Perfect chance to mutter a sotto voce "'Tis a pity....."

[Mark_Guiniven]

Rich, you made a typo spelling typo. That's pretty clever, even for you. Maybe you really do have some serious gremlins in that keyboard of yours. What does your publisher think? Are your books anything like Mike Clayton's?

[Dan Kelly]

Rich, you made a typo spelling typo. That's pretty clever, even for you.

Rihc has been making that particular tyop for *years*.

It's his treadmark tyop!  

P.S. Oopps! That should've been "copywrite tyop." Or maybe, on this site, "singature tyop."

[ForkaB]

Rich, you made a typo spelling typo. That's pretty clever, even for you. Maybe you really do have some serious gremlins in that keyboard of yours. What does your publisher think? Are your books anything like Mike Clayton's?

What are Mike Clayton's books like?  If they're about golf courses, there is probably something in common.

As for "tyop"(R), Dan is right.  I used to be a lot cleverer 3-4 years ago......

And, Mark, the gremlins are not in the keyboard, they are in ourselves.  Or, as Pogo once said, "We've met the enemy and he is us!"

[Joe Hancock]

"singature tyop."

Dan,

If I know your style well enough, I have to presume that was intentional.

Joe

[Doug Wright]

Doesn't "bump and fun" much better portray what is going on with these golf shots than "bump and run?"

Rihc,

Absolutely--I'm still laughing at one of my partners' several attempts to get his ball on Royal Dornoch's Foxy. He was a typical US aerial-game type and never really understood what you should at least try to do in Scotland. On Foxy he was just short of the green in 2 and:

Tried an aerial pitch--short and ran back to his feet
Tried another pitch--short and ran off to the left
Tried a runup with success

He made 7 and grumbled the rest of the trip about Foxy; I chuckled every time he did. This guy didn't get it--bump and run is what makes Scottish golf fun!

[Tony_Muldoon]

bump!

[ForkaB]

Good one, Tony!

I find it intresting that most of the replies are focusing on the bad things that can happen to a ball once it hits the ground.  When I made my initial post I was thinking mostly of the good things that can happen:  watching a low punched iron disappearing over a hump, coming up through the otherwise of a hollow, climbing a last hump and then falling down with the slope towards the pin; a pitch thrown long twoards a backstop, climbing up the hill to pause for a moment and then dribbling its way back towards the hole; the few times when you get both the length and line right using a Texas wedge on a 40 yard approach shot with a triple break.

Of course, the bad times are fun too, particularly when they happen to your opponent.....

[Dan Kelly]

Rich --

My favorite shot of my year, and possibly of my life, was struck three weekends ago on the 4th hole at Sutton Bay (my least favorite hole on the course, even after this shot!):

I was 217 yards from the pin, in the middle of the fairway, with the wind howling (30 mph?) behind me, with a 5-iron in my hand. My plan was to hit a punch knockdown that would carry 120 or 130 yards, toward the opening at the left front of the green, and then hope for the right roll.

Hit it purely. It flew about 6 feet off the ground, landed, rolled down the hill toward the green opening, disappeared from view, reappeared, moving slower now, climbed onto the green, dipped into the swale at left-front, then climbed the ridge that divides the front of the green from the fallaway rear ... and JUST BARELY climbed over to the other side, where the hole awaited. Ball disappeared again. We thought I might have holed it -- but found it about 2 feet past the hole.

Ground game madness! What a hoot.

Dan

[A_Clay_Man]

Somewhere the definition of fun needs to be sctrutinzed. It would appear that some people actually do have fun when their ball sticks like glue, within a few feet of it's interaction with the big ball.

Go figure!

[ForkaB]

Dan

Did you make the putt?

[Dan Kelly]

Yes.

It was so short, I could've made it even with the CLAW (tm).

[ed_getka]

Rich,
   I think Bob Huntley has the copyright on "tis a pity". You are quite right about the bump and FUN part. I was a kid in a candy store during my trip to Scotland, especially at TOC which is a blast from 100 yards in.

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