Monday, April 7, 2008

Yard Golfing













When the sun comes out on a day like today, after another long winter spent indoors, I get the urge for new occupation. Today that occupation is yard golf. I live deep in the woods of southern Ohio and have no neighbors (excepting dogs, deer, cats, chickens, turkeys, rabbits, chipmunks, beavers, weasels, raccoons, possums, turtles and the occasional wild boar). My yard is a couple of acres and surrounded on all sides by woods. I have never golfed before, but recently bought three used golf clubs from the thrift store for a buck each. I walked the yard to discover the best drive lanes and set three holes with plastic containers that I dug out of the recycle bin. My new yard-golf course is three holes. The first hole is a fairly long drive, with the chicken house and garden serving as hazards. I'd say par 4. I don't have any golf tees and after digging two pretty good sized divets out of my yard with my number one driver (a 9.75 Hogan) I hit a strong drive that sliced hard, just missing my van and hitting my garage. No damage. I chipped onto the "green" with my wedge and sunk the putt for a swell birdie. I was off to a good start. I cut across the yard, length-wise for a bogey on the second hole. So far so good, par for the course. I felt pretty good. That's when it all went bad. I ended up almost beaning one of my favorite St. Francais statues while trying to shoot around the brush pile on the third hole. 4 shots over par in the end. Damn.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i'd be more than happy to drive the beer cart for you, ok?

Gledwood said...

wow what a collection of wildlife... we get nothing more exciting than pigeons, mice, squirrels (occasionally) and quite a lot of foxes at night... oh and a fantastic dawn chorus of songbirds at spring mornings...

;->...

Get Bucked said...

too bad you couldnt find a wolverine in that noahs ark of a back yard ya got. where abouts in Athens County?

captain lizardo said...

I live in Zaleski Foerst, Vinton Co.
And, man o' man, has it been beautiful these past few days. Been going for a lot of walks outside. Mayeb I will blog some more about my wilderness friends.