Denver - Good afternoon, everybody! I was going to blog yesterday but was sidetracked by Squirrels that Run Up the Tree picketing my house. They are protesting because I turned off their disco party on Sunday night! Lights were flashing everywhere! Squirrels Running Up the Tree were carrying hookahs and other things and when the first topless Squirrels showed up - enough was enough!
I am not kidding you!
HaHa!
I’m just messin’ with all ya’ll. Can ya dig it, ya’know what I’m sayin’?
Anyway, I want to talk about golf today. I know many of you probably think golf is the most boring sport in the world to watch - and it is! Especially if you don’t play or are not familiar with the sport and its players.
Like snowboarding, golf is a sport based on an individual’s skills. When I snowboard, I love to test myself by pushing the limits of my abilities - I sometimes take a hard fall and at other times, I achieve what I set out to do in a specific run. Regardless, it is me and the mountain and nobody else.
Golf is a bit like that except green grass replaces snow moguls and my golf skills are challenged by a golf course’s layout and design. Instead of picking lines that I want to snowboard down a mountain, I pick angles for my golf shots and this means there’s lots of strategy involved. In golf, there is almost nothing that compares to making a shot exactly as you had envisioned.
The other thing about golf that I enjoy is the fact that I am a pretty good golfer. When I introduce myself in groups and remind the players that I am deaf, they tend to look at me as some sort of novelty - until a well-placed shot cures takes care of that.
I have often thought the fact I am deaf and a good golfer intimidates many hearing golfers. I am not at all saying that I am fearsome or anything - it’s just that it seems many players feel like they should naturally be better than a “deaf dude,” like me.
One time, I hit a shot with my driver that went well over 350 yards and people freaked out! They were shocked! They were immobilized! And then they said things like, “Wow! Deaf people must be really good at golf!”
HaHa!
The terminology for golf is simple to understand and it is my hope to inspire many people - deaf and not - to take up golf as a recreational sport. So, that means I will have to make it interesting for all ya’ll who think golf is boring.
I will do my best! And I will share some of the things I have seen and experienced on golf courses with all ya’ll.
Like the time I drove a golf cart right up to the golf hole on a prestigious golf course and was almost lynched by angry, white men! They were outraged! They were appalled!
I am not kidding you!
Anyway, I have to go now - I’m going to the driving range to work on my short irons. I hope all ya’ll have a great afternoon and evening - I’ll see you tomorrow!
Be good .. or be good at it.
Paotie
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I love to watch football….Tennessee football - Vandy, UT, Titans. Give me football! I can’t wait until the new season.
I guess it goes back to high school, I was the school mascot. I dressed up as a Tiger. The memories of hot, sweaty nights on the football field.
Oh yes, the topic is golf….I took it in college and made an A. I remember nothing.
This is cool! Looking forward to learning more about Golf from you!
Anyway, I’ve been told there’s lots of squirrels at these golf courses and that they steal balls? Is it true?
As a teenager I used to play golf and was pretty good at it. One time I played with my mother, who’d golf on Ladies’ Day every week, and it was like I didn’t know her. She’d cussed and swore on her terrible playing on all 18 holes, and could be heard all over the golf course.
Needless to say, some club members complained to the manager and my mother got fined for breaking one of the club rules– no swearing on the golf course. But I didn’t play with her again because she took up so much time swearing than concentrating on her game. Guess swearing is a sport all by itself.
We live on a golf community and no, we don’t play golf. My husband is a strong swinger, that is it. There are a lot of old men and old ladies playing golf everyday, driving the carts, chatting (pinkly swearing?), etc.
I played golf only ONCE. I played a lot of putt-putt in my lifetime though. ;o)
Paotie, when you become a famous golf champ and they plan to make a movie about you, be sure to do the right thing when casting an actor for your part.
Make sure not to use K’Dee Miller Productions.
Don’t plagiarize Matt’s idea for doing some story and casting a hearing actor in the movie.
Take in an all hearing cast, paotie. LOL
that might be the very thing that’ll blow them up!
Ben
Oh, yah! Get Tiger Woods to play your role. Rich, a hearie African-American to play a deaf Mexican-American. That’ll get those DH leaders just apoplectic!