Partly due to Jett’s illness and partly due to the pandemic, I had not golfed since the summer of 2019 – 2 years! That golf fast came to an end a couple of days ago with a round that I played with college friend Roger, his wife Nancy and their son Rigel. I was terrible, of course, no surprise there. But I did make a handful of really nice shots – enough to convince me that I could be really good if only I played more.
Such is the seduction of the game of golf.
This turned out to be a physical ordeal. Due to the wet July weather, the course was very soggy (I can blame the conditions for my poor score). So soggy that we decided to walk rather than get a golf cart that would just get bogged down in the mud. So I carried my heavy golf bag over 6,000 yards (more than 3 miles) in temperate (high 70s) but very humid conditions. By the time I got back to the RV I was so exhausted that I sat for an hour and did nothing but drink lemonade.