In Defense of Cheating at Golf
Or, as was the case for me last month, cheating at golf. I was playing at a course full of rolling hills in Delaware, close to the Atlantic Ocean. I birdied the first, a lovely little number with a creek and an elevated green, and managed to save par on the second. I duffed my tee shot on the par-five third, then banged a long three-wood to get back in position, only to misjudge the turf conditions on my approach and hit a fat eight iron right into the side of a steep hill overgrown with scraggle. A couple hacks with my wedge and an encounter with quicksand later, I two-putted for one of the finer triple bogeys of my life.
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