Thursday 30 July 2009

59 is the new 30. Yeah!

Lovely article by Thomas L. Friedman in today's International Herald Tribune, here. Contemplating Tom Watson's amazing run in the British Open:
...a 59-year-old man who had played his opening two rounds in this tournament with a 16-year-old Italian amateur — was able to best the greatest golfers in the world at least a decade after anyone would have dreamt it possible.
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This wonderful but cruel game never stops testing or teaching you. “The only comment I can make,” Watson told me after, “is one that the immortal Bobby Jones related: ‘One learns from defeat, not from victory.’ I may never have the chance again to beat the kids, but I took one thing from the last hole: hitting both the tee shot and the approach shots exactly the way I meant to wasn’t good enough. ... I had to finish.”

So I went out with Kev, to the DB Golf Course and shot a 14 over.  That's 14 balls over.... over the fence, in the rough and lost.  Cruel, yes....  What I learn from defeat: buy cheap balls....