I have had an on-again, off-again relationship with the game of golf for a long time. I never was any good at it. I never had a lesson and never had good equipment, so it was a pretty frustrating game for me. I gave it up about four years ago, but earlier this year some friends asked me to go up to Alexandria to play in a tournament benefitting Teen Challenge. I thought, "Good friends, a good cause - why not?" So I pulled my old clubs out of storage and went along for the ride. My partner was my good friend Spanky Arsement, who had probably given up the game before I did. Needless to say we didn't score well in the tournament. My clubs actually had rust on them! We shot a miserable round the first day (dead last) but did better on the second day and actually started enjoying ourselves. Spanky owns Moore's Machine Shop, so I asked him if he thought he could sandblast the rust off my clubs and maybe we could start playing every once in a while. He agreed to do so and took my clubs with him after the weekend. He and his business partner Kerry Emanis (another good friend) invited David and I to play the next week and when I got there expecting to get my sandblasted clubs from them, they instead presented me with a brand new set of Callaway Razrs! If that weren't enough, they also set me up with lessons with the pro at Oakbourne Country Club and a nice Sky Caddie.
Since then we have played at least once a week, I've had four amazing lessons from Cliff Wagnor at Oakbourne and I am LOVING the game like never before and getting better each week. I actually shot two rounds in the 80's this week!
