Our golf days have an inviolable pattern: I get owned on the first nine holes! Embarrassingly, I’m almost always down by a number in the high single digit territory. Then there’s breakfast, soda and the obligatory fight-back. At close, I’m generally trailing Raza by 5, and poorer by a few balls sacrificed to driver-fade, or waterlogging at the 2nd.
Yesterday was different!
Gaurav and Manav joined in for a slack round, interrupted by conversations that were not centered around the Gaussian copula function. Those two had to leave for meetings after nine, I suspect they decided they were better CEOs than golfers! Because me and Raza are not CEOs ( just brilliant golfers!!), we continued to concentrate on the task at hand.
As we walked up to the eighteenth (par 4), I was back by two. Raza went first and hit a mean driver that went 250-275 yards. A few shots later, the day ended with my pressure putt, a 13 foot downhill shot to hold par. Raza, went two over on the hole and there it was-my Tin Cup moment, we were quits for the day!
Take up golf, it can be humbling. And that, sometimes, is a good thing!
Derived wisdom: If you’re basing your flight option calls on ‘who acquiesces to carry my golf-kit, gratis?’. You’re dangerously close to losing your job.
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As a parent, I am now faced with the eternal question; Where did i go wrong?
I am the father to Faraz the Golfer (and of course, his baap in so many other ways). And now, like all young boys, he thinks he has eclipsed me. I tell you, give the man two strokes and he wants the whole nine holes!
The 'pressure putt', or, as the rest of the World knows it, the Fluke Of The Day, doesn't change the basic fact: Faraz, your soul is mine.
And speaking as an expert, I must say that it is a fine example of a pure untainted soul. Please don't sully it with ludicrous fantasies of winning.
Yeah!
So we'll talk about it on our way to the Valley. We're flying out Saturday morning at 8! And, I just made our flight decision based on which airline carries our golf-kits, gratis. Damn! Is there a cure yet?!
2 guys chickening out of game on Saturday … come on breakfast is not too expensive at Karma