Hole Outs!

Mr. Fairway isn’t one to brag about his golf game, inconsistent as it is, but he can’t help mentioning two great shots from the season. Earlier this summer, he holed out a lob wedge from about 60 yards for an eagle three on a short par five. Yesterday, playing a great Robert Trent Jones Sr. golf course at Cacapon State Park in West Virginia, he did it again. After badly hooking his drive on the 408 yard 7th hole, Mr. Fairway safely punched an 8-iron back to the fairway 57 yards from the center of the green (according to the marker on the post that indicates where carts must leave the fairway). He pulled out the trusty lob wedge and knocked it in for a birdie three. Alas, because of the configuration of both holes with the cups cut behind mounds, Mr. Fairway didn’t see either shot actually go into the hole. Nevertheless, nothing is sweeter than walking up to the green a finding your Titleist in the cup.

Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Gary Groh.