Look to the left of the flag. My shot, from 190 yards out.
Three-wood to three feet.
Maybe even 2 1/2.
I don’t get to see that lovely result too much as I near the green after hitting an approach shot. The blind pig found the acorn last night during our informal little formal league at Northern Pines in Cicero, N.Y.
Adding to the surprise, and fun, was the topography of the hole. I’d hit my fairway wood up an incline, and the tract then went back downhill toward the hole, through a fairway with many hills and berms.
“Good shot,” Morelli had told me after I’d smoked a hard, low liner from the right edge of the fairway, about 190 yards out from the hole. It started a bit left, curved a bit right, and I saw it bounce once before it went its merry way and out of sight.
“I guess it was a good shot,” I said as we topped that first hill, and I saw that my Bridgestone had indeed rolled its way onto the putting service.
“That’s your ball?” Morelli said, with some surprise as she noted its proximity to the pin.
Why, yes. Yes, it was.
And I rolled the putt in.
For par, not birdie, because I’d had to chip my wayward drive from the woods to that spot on the fairway.
All in all, it was a good league week three. I shot 44, bogey golf, nine-over for the nine holes, my best score so far this season. Morelli, Commish and Linda all hit the ball very well.
Oh, yes. For Rachel, who left a comment last week questioning about the food in the new clubhouse, I asked. Yes, the full menu from years past remains. They cook over in the old kitchen and bring it over.
Have you ever walked closer and discovered that the result of something is way better than you imagined? What is your favorite food to eat after golf or a similar outing? What would you order to drink as you stepped into the clubhouse?
Mark Bialczak 
Awesome shot Mark. My golf career has been very short but memorable. I graduated from miniput to the big leagues with a best shot game with colleagues. I sent you a picture of the outcome in your e-mail. You can attach it here if you like. Ha!
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I love the shot you sent. I am going to post it on my blog tomorrow morning as sent in by my guest contributor Paul.
Do you want me to use your last name with it or not?
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Oh, man! What a shot. I would have like to see the triumph dance after realizing that shot.
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I kept my cool somewhat. Dancing on the greens wearing golf shoes with those rubber spikes is frowned upon. I did do a fist pump, though
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Good. Celebrating is necessary and every little bit counts.
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YAY, Mark! YAY, Mark! The first one is for doing so well in your golf game. The second is for following up on my kitchen question. 😀
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The golf is improving.
And once a journalist, always a journalist.
Any more questions for me to chase down, Rachel? 🙂
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Yes, please. I’d like to know if the golf club has a signature cookie or mixed drink? If not, they should have both. Wouldn’t that be nice after a game to have a waitress bring you a mixed drink and a special cookie while you wait for a meal? 🙂
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Noted. This not that sort of a joint, Rachel, but, for you. Noted. Every establishment must always be ready to expand its offerings to keep clientele happy.
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LOL! Oh, well. Maybe some other golf time. 🙂
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Nice game Mark! There’s a course up the street in the park. In the summer we walk to the clubhouse for breakfast. Strong coffee and a cheesy English muffin with egg and bacon. So yummy. Breakfast, can’t beat it.
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For some reason, golfers know how to eat. That breakfast sounds yummy. I’m equally interested in the clubhouse food and the course in the park, Sandra. 🙂
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Mark! Three things:
1. A great shot! Look at you…
2. I love the word topography. I always have and what’s even better is saying it.
3. I really enjoy your golf posts.
I once played a three par and drove it right to the cup! I went up the hill looking for my ball on the green and there it was….
Beer on Aud that day…! 🙂
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You got a hole-in-one! Holy crap!! Every golfer’s dream, that is, Audrey. Congratulations. Yes, the legend is that you must buy the beer for everybody who’s in the bar when you arrive after the round in which you notch your hole-in-one. I have drank on this legend, but not bought. Someday, maybe. Hole-in-two is my best so far (on a par-four, even, so that’s pretty cool, an eagle.)
Yes, I smiled when I typed topography. You don’t get much of a chance to use that in blogworld!
Thanks, hole-in-one ace Audrey! I bow now …
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Can I tell you that I hadn’t been playing long when it happened and you not want to throw yourself into the street? I would have never believed it was mine had it not been a distinctive ball. I’ve lost it since. I think you should be proud of the hole in two!
I know!! Such a cool word. I may have to use it soon.
Don’t bow.. please.
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Somebody should have bought you one of those little hole-in-one golf ball forever holders. Darn. Anyway, no jealousy, just joy.
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Yea..that guy shoulda…!!
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Pffft to him.
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Exactly!
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Does ‘close’ count in golf? Or just horseshoes?
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And hand grenades. Not golf.
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Ohhhhhhhhhh…..got it!
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Congrats on your score. You can only get better I think. 🙂
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I would love to get below 40 for nine. That is my goal, Kim. Thanks for the congrats.
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wow, you are getting better quite quickly, mark. perhaps you can begin a new career on the pro golf circuit? as for the drink of choice, it would be a cold beer or a gin and tonic, double lime. i’m pretty good at mini golf, and that’s about as far as it goes, one of my sons in law and i may take lessons together when his sched eases up a bit )
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Take the lessons with the son in law if you can because golf can be great social relaxer forever after for both of you.
Beer, yes. With double lime, even, in a Corona. Yum. Gin and tonic, eh …
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This sounds like a great shot, Mark! It was a pleasant surprise as you came over the top of that hill, I imagine!
Congratulations and glad it was a relaxing and fun evening. I enjoyed hearing also, how they make the food and bring it over to the new place. It is such a nice local golf course!
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I think they goofed by not putting a big kitchen in the new place, but that’s just me, Robin. Its a bit of a long walk with the cooked food! But, fun golf last night for sure, thanks.
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Sounds like a great evening of golf.
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Very relaxing last night, Rachel, which I greatly needed.
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I once kept the books at a country club, and would eat in the dining room after the golfers left. The cook and I would raid the fridge, where she put some “special” leftovers away for us, and she and one of the wait staff kept trying to talk me into playing a round with them. Since I couldn’t even swat a fly and hit it, I told them I would walk around the greens with them, but wouldn’t bother tearing up the turf during the walk. It was a fun time there, except for the pesky numbers in the bookkeeping. Numbers give me headaches.
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It sounds like it was fun. Except for the pesky numbers, Angie.
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Yeah, Mark. The world really should be able to run without all those darn numbers.
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I have only putt-putt experience, but we have visited a clubhouse overlooking a golf course several times bc they serve great turkey avocado bacon sandwiches and jalapeno cheese fries. Now back to “the blind pig found the acorn.” I can’t decide if that should be the name of your autobiography or on your tombstone.
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Golf course clubhouses are famous for great food, Kerbey, and that turkey avocado bacon sandwich and jalapeno cheese fries sounds like the line would form out the door, golfers, putt-putters and sandwichers all together.
I’ve heard the blind pig and acorn saying somewhere, I think, so I can”t take credit. It is a good one, though, isn’t it? Book first, tombstone last, Kerbey.
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Maybe by the time you’re 100, you’ll have found TWO acorns, and you can claim that saying. Blind trilby-wearing pig found two acorns.
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Wide headstone, huh, Kerbey?
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