Bataan Death Golf.
I believe the temperature in Jersey was tickling 100 (and may even have gotten above that). It was a good day to spend indoors in air-conditioned comfort. I did not spend the day indoors in air-conditioned comfort. Instead, I played golf brought my golf clubs to a golf course and swung them a lot, accomplishing essentially nothing other than proving that owning golf clubs does not make one a golfer.
Yes, it was an outing sponsored by a local organization, and I (along with three others) had promised to show up. Everyone tee’d off at 12:30, not early in the morning when the temperature was a balmy 85 degrees, but at 12:30 when the temperature and humidity were raging.
I must have turned two gallons of water into sweat. Speaking of sweat, I tried a Gatorade for the first time. My God, that stuff tastes like sweat. But, I guess that’s the idea.
Jim, don’t look at it as bad golf. You are very efficient if you measure yourself on cost per swing…
Comment by Ken Adams — July 17, 2006 @ 10:49 pm
I drank 4 of those yesterday on the course. It was both the heat AND the humidity! Went through 2 shirts (and 1 for the ride home) and 2 pairs of socks.
BTW shot a 91 on a course I had never seen before.
Comment by MCPO Airdale — July 17, 2006 @ 11:27 pm
Aw, you’re probably a great golfer. It’s a known fact that golf balls don’t get any loft in humidity over 98%. At least you didn’t get heat stroke…
Comment by Libby — July 18, 2006 @ 10:55 am
Jim drinking Gatorade.
Is this one of those things you look at a long time and suddenly you see the hidden picture inside it?
Comment by dogette — July 18, 2006 @ 2:58 pm
try adding some Stoley…
Comment by gregor — July 18, 2006 @ 6:12 pm
… I hate golf.. if they’d let me play it with a baseball bat, I’d be great though….
Comment by Eric — July 18, 2006 @ 6:17 pm
Gatorade…I love it…I drink it…I snort it…, but it’s best in an IV…shit will save you…trust me.
Comment by Yabu — July 19, 2006 @ 1:52 pm