Re: ShopTalk: The game is ruined; was Definitely Switching to Titleist

[Bernie Baymiller]

Ha! I mentioned this once before on ST...several years ago...   On winter days when I was much younger and playing on the Lancaster CC (#44 ranked course in country in those days), I often got my warmest clothes on and would play nine holes regardless of the temperature. Our 7th hole was a 510 yard par-5 which began with a diagonal drive across the Conestoga River, backed up by the Lancaster Waterworks to about 150 feet across at that point. Carry on the drive to reach dry land was about 150 yards and the whole left side of the fairway was a steep wooded hill. This day there was a about a 20 mph wind going right down the river. Hit a high solid drive, the wind got the ball and pushed it just beyond the bank on the clear ice. Big bounce...and another...and another, etc. Disappeared from sight. So, I walked up along the river bank watching for it and finally spotted it in the hazard about pin high (in the middle of the river). Nice 510 yard drive, wind aided. :-) Wind must have blown the ball along the clear ice at least 200 yards. Walked out and played it, just for the heck of it (real spikes in those days were pretty good on the ice)...over the pump house, some willow trees and a pond next to the green. Nice little half wedge shot. Ball hit the frozen green and bounced over, hit the bank and bounced straight up, came down and rolled back on the green. Two putts for a "bird."   Bernie Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 2:24 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: The game is ruined; was Definitely Switching to Titleist In a message dated 1/13/03 1:24:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ernie Els just hit a 398 yd drive on 18 at the Mercedes, I'm > switching tomorrow. I do this easily and consistently!  Downhill on ice with a 45 MPH tailwind. GET YA CLUBS HERE!