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Golf is a funny game… There are times when you just know, know in your soul that you’ve hit the perfect shot. You know it’s going to be good, you made a perfect swing, made perfect contact… And that’s when it happens, the ball lands on sprinkler head, takes a weird bounce and ends up in rough so deep you can’t find your feet much less the ball. Or it hits the flag stick and takes a hop, skip and jump into a bunker. Or any number of other weird, silly or bizarre things that the fates or the golf gods can dream up. It’s at times like that when you mutter unkind words about this stupid, stupid game or contemplate tossing your clubs in a lake and never playing again… But then you hole out and move to the next tee… And it’s all new again. Now you’re standing on the 11th tee looking at a 158 yard down hill par 3 with the pin tucked in the back right, a perfect position for your left to right ball flight. There’s this little voice in the back of you head saying “Oh Yeah”. You way your options, chose your weapon and… “Oh baby, be the one, be as good as you look” the words leave you mouth in clear defiance of the fates, the golf gods or anyone else who would dare mess with this the most perfect of perfect shots. You watch, you wait… Seven seconds seems like a life time. Then it happens, the ball lands on the green, bounces and rolls… Oh my god… No way… It didn’t just go in… Did It? It did… A hole in one! Oh baby, a hole in one! That’s the great thing about golf; every hole is a new challenge, with a new set of possibilities. That’s what keeps you coming back… Knowing that sooner or later golf will make up for all the bad shots and unlucky bounces and reward you with that one perfect shot. What's In My Bag
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