Dan's Bittersweet Day
We played golf early again last Sunday morning, teed off at 5:25 and finished at 8 AM, in time for Dan to swing by the house for a quick shower before he went to church. Playing early enough that a golf game doesn't impact the rest of the day is something that I am enjoying.
A couple of weeks ago we stopped to visit our friends Bob and Linda in Olympia, had a nice lunch in their incredible setting--overlooking the Sound, great deck and perfect weather. As we were leaving Bob showed us his new pride and joy, a new driver, and ended up sending his old one home with Dan. This driver and Dan developed a great friendship, it helped him conquer holes that had stymied him for more than a decade and gave him new hope for his game. On Sunday he was having a great round, it ended up equalling his best-ever. On the tee at#16 he hit a shot that was OK, a lay that I would die for, but not great for him, and looking down after the shot, there was the club head on the ground, detached from the shaft in his hand, broken. My source of relief was that it didn't break 20 minutes earlier as I had tried it on an earlier hole, that would have been bad. Dan's new best friend is at a golf shop getting a new shaft attached that should match the original and hopefully he will be in good shape for the tournament he will play with his dad next weekend.