GenErr
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First hole on Monday. It requires an iron to a dogleg left. I hit my usual 5 iron, but shanked it (something I haven't done in years). It was a line drive straight toward the head of my 92 year old playing buddy who was waiting to tee off about 20 yards in front of us at the "red" tees. He luckily still has amazing reflexes and ducked as the ball nipped the bill of his golf cap. A couple of inches, or a slower reaction could have resulted in the ball hitting him in the temple, and who knows? We were both shaken for quite a few holes.
It was a reminder to us (we have about 250 years of golf experience among us) not to get complacent about basic safety on the course, and not put ourselves in the line of an errant shot! Lesson re-learned by us that morning.
We joked about it later when he told me if the ball had hit him, I would have had to tell his wife of almost 70 years, "your husband, who survived being a fighter pilot in the Korean War, was unceremoniously laid out by a Callaway Soft golf ball!"
It was a reminder to us (we have about 250 years of golf experience among us) not to get complacent about basic safety on the course, and not put ourselves in the line of an errant shot! Lesson re-learned by us that morning.
We joked about it later when he told me if the ball had hit him, I would have had to tell his wife of almost 70 years, "your husband, who survived being a fighter pilot in the Korean War, was unceremoniously laid out by a Callaway Soft golf ball!"