Lesson Learned: Don't play scared golf.
Had special time tonight with Ben. (explain special time). do things that they really like to do, and if it happens to be eating popcorn and drinking lemonade and driving a golf cart around, then everybody wins.
It was raining at the end of the day and i started feeling bad about trying to talk ben into playing in the rain. so i called him to ask him if he wanted to do something else instead. when he got on the phone he said to me: daddy, can i just bring a rain jacket and play golf in the rain.
that's my boy.
on the 4th hole there is a bridge that goes over a big ravine so the walkers don't have to go all the way down and up. as i was about to tee off, ben saw the bridge and asked me if he could walk over it. He was heading over that way (most times my kids don't wait to actually recieve permission, they just ask...) and i said, sure ben. just look out for the crocidiles that live under there.
he stopped in his tracks, looked back at me with a terrified look, and after remaining frozen for about 10 seconds started running back at me as fast as he could, with boths his arms raised high in the air (so the crocidille would eat his arms?) screaming: CROOCIDILLEEE!!!
He kept running for about 40 yards until he stopped and turned around to look at me again. luckily it was a rainy night and there weren't any other golfers around or we probably would have been asked to leave and never come back (which would have been just fine with ben now that he thought there were crocs on the golf course. remind me never to take him golfing in florida.)
the rest of the round, all he could think about and talk about was crocidles. i hit a drive in the woods and he said: right in the trees where the crocs live. he said he knew a croc was coming close at one point b/c he had something in his tummy that told him that. he said if you eat three bowls of honey nuts and three bowls of colored chicken then your tummy will tell you if there is a crocidile close and if its a mommy daddy or baby croc. (wonder if that's how the croc hunter lived so long? who knew?)
at one point on a par three over water, he said: don't hit it in the water, that's where the crocs live.
how many times do golfers got through that thought process? don't hit it in the water, that's where the double bogeys live. don't chunk it into that sand trap, that's where the ____ lives, don't miss this three footers, that's where...
paper tiger: two new swings thoughts: don't miss it. followed by don't miss it, you asshole.
Dr. Bob: our mind doesn't recognize 'don't'. don't hit it into the water, subconciously our mind is thinking all about the water.
we play scared golf alot, it kills our scores.
stories of when i've played scared golf? against larison 36 holes match. hole #31 he triples and i pull into a tie, next hole i chunk a 3 irone into the junk, take a penalty and hook the next one 30 yards left of the green. scull my chip up and over 3 putt of 8 on a par 4. check please.
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BEAUFORT, S.C. - Officials say an alligator bit off part of a golfer's arm as he leaned over to pick up his ball at a private South Carolina course.
ReplyDeleteThe man, 77, was retrieving his ball from a pond when the 10-foot alligator bit him at Ocean Creek Golf Course. According to the Beaufort Gazette, the gator pulled the golfer into the pond and went into a series of "death rolls," a technique the reptile uses to tear apart its food. The man lost his arm in the struggle.
The man's friends were able to free him from the alligator's grasp and called 911. The victim, visiting family on the island, was taken to the Medical University of South Carolina. Wildlife workers killed the alligator and and performed a necropsy at the scene to remove the man's arm from the animal's digestive tract.
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The arm was stored in a cooler in the hopes of re-attaching it, the Gazette reported.
The man has not been identified, and hospital officials would not release any information about him.