"You failed to tell us Buddy's reaction to all of this."
JimN:
Yep, I did fail to tell you what his reaction was because he didn't have one. It was a joke. However, if I ever do hit a shot on #4 into the parking lot and my ball lands on Buddy's $237,000 Mercedes windshield wiper I definitely am going to take out my SW and take a practice swing that eliminates his driver side mirror and then I'm getting up on the hood of his car and I'm gonna hit a lob shot that hopefully doesn't take out his windshield but will undoubtedly take out his windshield wiper as my divot. If then, Buddy asks me how I could've done such a thing I'll simply ask him why in the hell he left a $237,000 Mercedes in the right hand chipping area (parking lot) of hole #4.
Have you ever noticed that the cars that are parked over in the right hand side of the lot (by #18) are all pretty much backed into the parking spots? Yep, it's because it's generally a better idea to lose a rear window than a front windshield!
People who park their cars in lots that are close to holes need to understand the realities. The other day some old guy in the Pennsylvania Senior Better Ball Championship wiped out some guy's window at Philadelphia Cricket Club and just ask Wayne Morrison about that poor guy's windshield at Charles River C.C.
Speaking of car windows and golf this story is true and is pretty freaky. A good many years ago I was practicing at Piping Rock. Way over on the right side of the range was the great Jimmy Bostwick who was practicing with his own practice balls. Jimmy Bostwick always did march to his own drummer and he was also one of the best recovery shot and trick shot artists I ever saw. He had some beat up old station wagon parked pretty near where he was practicing hitting all these weird and wonder full shots out of a practice bunker. Then to my total amazement he turned around and started hitting these low line drives out of the bunker at his old beat up station wagon. Crash, boom, smash, he basically took out some of the windows and put a bunch or dents in the car. Eventually I went over there and asked him what the hell he was doing and he just said the car was worthless and all he could do with it anyway is junk it. I didn't see Jimmy after that for about another year and when I saw him next and asked him how he'd been doing he said he was OK other than some fairly severe lascerations he had on his ass for a couple of months.