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When Things Go Wrong, They Really Go Wrong
By Ron Strand
There are lots of life lessons to be learned from golf. One lesson is, sometimes when things go wrong, they really go wrong.
My friend and I are standing at the tee box on a 165 yard par 3. It’s not a particularly intimidating hole, but not easy either. There is a creek down in a gulley half-way to the green, with high reeds, cattails and thick rough on either side. It winds kind of across the front of the green and up one side.
We each hit our drives into the rough. So we agree that this is an opportune time to take a mulligan and hit again. I’m lucky enough to land one between the hole and the front of the green. It rolls towards the hole and stops just a few feet away. My friend knocks a good one that lands in almost the same spot, but catches a bit of a slope, and to his dismay, it rolls sideways, off the green and down the bank of the creek into the reeds.
We walk down the creek bank, cross the bridge and look for his ball. He found it without too much trouble and decided that it was playable. He chipped it out of the reeds, but the unforgiving lie made it a difficult shot and he hit the edge of the green, in roughly the same sloped spot where his first shot landed. Of course, it rolled off the side again, but this time settled in a small hole, where there likely was a sprinkler head at one time. Since there was no sprinkler in the hole and it was just a hole, he decided he had to hit it out and after two tries popped it out onto a flat spot of the green about six feet from the hole.
As he was lining up his putt, a crash distracted him. He had left his bag and pull cart down by the creek, on the sloped bank. At that moment it gave way, tipped over, dumping his clubs into the creek. At least
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