Today in chapel, our high school athletic director, Mr. Bret Walter, recognized some outstanding accomplishments by Faith athletes in the fall season. Senior Keely Bakken won the state 3A girls cross country championship (by 40 seconds!). Both the boys and girls soccer teams lost in well played games in the state championship games (both lost to Truckee High School, a school in California – doesn’t that make us Nevada state champs??!!). Sophomore Ashley Lacher won the state 3A girls golf championship. Congratulations to all of our fall sports teams, players, and coaches. To God be the Glory!
Speaking of golf…Though Mark Twain once described golf as “a good walk spoiled,” I love the game. I don’t play it as often or as well as I would like, but there is something about being out in God’s creation hitting a little white ball with a stick that energizes me. My wife and I play on our anniversary in late June each year. In ‘09 I’ve already warned her that we’re playing at Furnace Creek Golf Course in Death Valley, the world’s lowest golf course at 214 feet below sea level. It should be a toasty 120+ that day - not much hotter than when Mr. Dunning and I played at Wolf Creek in Mesquite this past August.
I’m leaving you with some truths about golf….
*Don’t buy a putter until you’ve had a chance to throw it.
*Never try to keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your mind during your swing.
*If you’re afraid a full shot might reach the green while the foursome ahead of you is still putting out, you have two options: you can immediately shank a lay-up or you can wait until the green is clear and top a ball halfway there.
*The less skilled the player, the more likely he is to share his ideas about the golf swing.
*No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.
*Everyone replaces his divot after a perfect approach shot.
*It is surprisingly easy to hole a fifty foot putt … for a 10 on that hole.
*The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
*You can hit a two acre fairway 10% of the time and a two inch branch 90% of the time.
*If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.
*Since bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad shot is actually the beginning of the next group of three.
*When you look up, causing an awful shot, you will always look down again at exactly the moment when you ought to start watching the ball if you ever want to see it again.
*Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make two triple bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe.
*To calculate the speed of a player’s downswing, multiply the speed of his back-swing by his handicap; i.e., back-swing 20 mph, handicap 15, downswing = 300 mph.
*Hazards attract; fairways repel.
*A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours.
*If there is a ball on the fringe and a ball in the bunker, your ball is in the bunker. If both balls are in the bunker, yours is in the footprint.
*It’s easier to get up at 6:00 AM to play golf than at 10:00 to mow the yard.
*A good drive on the 18th hole has stopped many a golfer from giving up the game.
*Golf balls are like eggs. They’re white. They’re sold by the dozen. And you need to buy fresh ones each week.
*It’s amazing how a golfer who never helps out around the house will replace his divots, repair his ball marks, and rake his sand traps.
Not me, of course! I always help around the house; don’t I, Honey. Honey???…..
Posted: December 3rd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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