i have played this wonderful, exhilarating and at times frustrating game since the age of fourteen I.e. 56 years! I am eight years into my retirement and have gotten my handicap to single digits.

However, poor shots, mediocre shots, decent shots and excellent shots on countless par threes have resulted in balls: rolling up to the hole, along side of it, curling around it, stopping short of it and of course I have suffered the ultimate indignity of having some bounce off the stick too...but none went in until I flew one into the hole on a 141 yard hole with an eight iron on Oct. 29, 2014.

Let's see if it takes another 56 years to get another one that would make me 126 years old. When it happens I hope I am playing with someone that has a camera because I may not remember the happy event...and when I drive home and tell my wife it's for sure she will never believe me without proof.