A friend of mine told me this story and was then kind enough to write it up for posting. I hope you all enjoy it. GK.
There is nothing that will throw a golfer out of their rhythm like incessantly waiting for ten (or more) minutes to tee off on each hole. Even with the sportiest of rangers and the scientific spacing of groups, it only takes one slow player to disturb the pace for everyone unfortunate enough to get stuck behind the train wreck. I’ll try to limit my use of expletives, so let’s just say that waiting on each tee makes me a bit ‘agitated’, and my score almost always takes a nosedive when conditions are slow. Considering the fact that crowding on the golf course is not likely to improve, I knew I needed a way to turn my frustrations from waiting into something positive, but what was I to do?
Luckily for me, fate intervened and answered my question. I was partnered up with an eccentric teenage player for an excessively slow round on a suburban Chicago course, and he has come up with a unique way to keep himself in the right frame of mind during waits on every tee. Whenever we got stuck near a pond or lake, he would break out this telescopic fishing rod and make some casts. He had permission from the course staff, although they found it quite an odd request. At first, I thought that this kid was just going through the motions, but on the fifth tee, I realized that he was more serious about fishing than he was about golf.
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