If the golf ball falls in the lake, does anybody care.
My good friend, John and I planned a golf game on the weekend. Thats no special deal considering the bevy of weekend golfers, except for the fact that John absolutely refuses to join the weekend hordes of golfers that infest the popular links. Well, much to my surprise, he agreed to come down from his historically recognized home in Dresden and share a game with me on Saturday. I, quite frankly, agree with John's seemingly phobic aversion to standing in line at tee-boxes and watch fellow hackers divot and flop and muff shots well witnessed by a gallery of Mulligan holding, white shoe wearing, designer club toting weekend golfers. We used to take one evening a week to do nine holes before John retired and we would alternate between his home course in Chatham and my favourite course in Lasalle. The only condition was, that, the one evening was never during the weekend to spare the humiliation of standing in, what was once a corn field or a pasture or a bush, and whack golf balls int...