Sunday, 28 April 2013

Seaside Golf: the 17th.


Golf, as we all know, is a strange but also a strangely satisfying game. All thoughts of my first drive into the Dinkie disappeared as I walked down towards the17th green.

On the first tee, there was a very cold wind and true to form I hit the ground harder than the ball which toppled over the edge into the Dinkie, as three quarters of them have since we made it out of bounds.

But on the 17th tee it was warm, the wind had died down and to quote John Betjeman, how straight it flew, how long it flew… a glorious, sailing, bounding drive that made me glad I was alive. And then the very turf rejoiced to see my quite unprecedented three.

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