Funny story about City Park: Thomas and I used to play golf there all the time. During one round, the cutest drink girl I’ve ever seen—short black hair, freckles, blue eyes—was working the course. We had got a couple drinks from her earlier in the round and I was totally smitten with her.
Well, we came down the home stretch and here came the drink girl in her cart. She was about 150 yards in front of us on the complete opposite side of the fairway from where my ball was. I looked at Thomas and said, “no way I’ll hit her right.”
The drink girl was serving a customer and had the lid of the ice chest on the back of her cart up. I took a mighty whack with my 3-wood and hit a dead pull. Anyone that plays golf knows that a pull is the most unintentional solid shot you can hit. The ball heads on a line directly toward the drink cart.
“FORE! FORE,” we yelled. The drink girl and customer scramble for their lives. The ball hits the lid of the ice chest and falls into the ice. I was so embarrassed.
Here’s an article about City Park’s revival.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061115/ap_on_re_us/new_orleans_park
Is that the kind of shot I hit when I almost killed that guy (twice) the last time we played? Or is the term for that shot just “terrible golfer”?
No, you’re shot is called a shank that bounced off a fence and flew at someone nearly behind you. Strangely, the fence you hit is designed to protect the people behind it. Clearly it’s poorly designed. You did nothing wrong … except suck really bad.
Would you say that that was the best shank you’ve ever seen?
I have a story about golf and Audobon Park. Dave and I were playing with this guy who was drunk off his ass in the middle of the day. I remember he was a big LSU baseball fan, and despite the afore mentioned drunkeness, he was playing very well. So he goes up ahead as we’re finishing up a hole, and as we catch up, we see him with a turtle. He’s knocking this poor turtle back and forth with his golf club, and he finally hauls off and whacks it into the water. We were both stunned. He later threw up on the golf course. A feat I would later match on the very same course in the very same park.