SPECTATOR GOLF

I like golf. I tried to learn to play once. I spent several hundred dollars on equipment and I looked good when I unloaded at the course but after that it was all downhill and I resigned myself to enjoying spectator golf.

My husband, son, son-in-law, grandson, and many friends are golfers, I live on a golf course and I watch tournaments on T.V. but this past weekend I took my spectator golf to a whole new level. In order to help entertain our golfing friends who were visiting from Florida, I spent all day every day, two states and three courses, watching golf from the cart !

One thing I got out of my excursion was a new insight into golfing jargon:

"Ni-Shaa" is "nice shot" which is said each time the ball is hit by another person in order to boost the confidence of the ball hitter.
"Get in the Hole" is screamed immediately after the ball is struck even though the ball may not be headed anywhere near the hole.
Talking to the ball is common - "Whoa, ball", "Sit, ball", "Find some darkness, ball", "Bite, ball", and "Roll, ball, roll" are repeated at each hole.

Then there are the terms which I use entirely differently from the way golfers use them such as, "I pulled the damn thing", "I need to draw this one ", "That was soooo fat", and "What a good lie".

Oh, well, I do enjoy the scenery and the company and I did get one more thing out of my 54-hole spectator golfing experience - a major sunburn !