I don't know if its just to me or to everyone, but some strange things happen when I enter the hallowed grounds that make up a golf course. From the first tee to the cup on eighteen, things can happen that just defy logic.

I don't have these kinds of problems with the rest of my life. Oh, sure I have the same problems that everyone else does, but they can be explained, they make some sort of sense. The four of five hours that I spend on a golf course is like I'm in a different world or perhaps, the outer limits.

Those of us over 50 remember " The Outer Limits", a place where strange things happen. That's the zone I go into on a golf course.

Let me give you an example.

If I'm playing a match and my opponent hits a ball into the woods. That's good for me. Hey, every shot makes someone happy. When we start looking for his ball I'll find it in thirty seconds. I don't care if I find it, I may be thirty yards from where he thinks it is, but I'll walk right to it. Happens every time.

If I hit a ball in to the woods! Of course you know the results. It could drop straight down from that big tree with the bird house, but it can't be found when we get there.

See what I mean? Strange things happen on a golf course.

I don't know how many times I've had the guy I'm playing putt from off the green over two ridges with three different breaks and into the cup. The only thing missing was a windmill and a bridge to go across.

I never make that kind of putt.

His ball will hit a rake and stay out of the sand. Mine will hit the rake and land in a footprint.

Very strange!

I've said it before, a putter can't miss until you pay for it. I have a closet full for proof.

Is my ball the only one that fits in a fairway divot?

Why does the wind quit or start blowing during my downswing?

Why is the water cooler always empty when I really need a drink?

Me losing the front nine always precedes the arrival of the beer cart. If I win, well who knows where she went. Probably taking water to that cooler back there.

The strange things that happen putting deserved and article all its own, so I won't get into that, but (you can click here).

Why do I hear - while I'm pulling out my wallet - the phrase "Man, that was the best game I shot all year" so often.

I played with, and paid, one guy who shot two of the three best games of his life. He should pay me to golf with him.

I can work on the driving range until I get a shot down to a fine art, only to see it turn into a joke on the course.

I can hit a nice draw all day until I start it out over water ---- Splash!

The thought "Swing easy" stays in my mind only to the top of the back swing.

Why is it only my ball that ends up with just a little bit of it above water? I would really love to see some of my friend's try this shot.

So you see, a sane man would avoid this type of ground. Strange things happen in the "Outer Limits".

God! I love this game.

Ken

P.S. One day I'll make this putt.

 

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