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Originally Posted by REDeYeS88
and that's the exact reason my favorite group of guys are old timers that grew up playing.
there's something to be said about the unique type of seasoning someone gets after decades spent playing golf.
some of the guys i play with have been hard at it, at least twice a week, for 50+ years.
assuming an average round is 4.5 hours and a 4 mile walk (~7,000 yards).
after 50 years that's 23,400 hours and 20,800 miles....translating to almost 2 years of time on the course and a walk almost 80% of the way around the earth. add all the other miscellaneous time spent around the course and the 6 rounds in 4 days trips we take a few times a year and i'm willing to guess many of these guys have essentially hiked around the globe while chasing a little white ball.
i had a great time playing with them. perhaps part of the reason was i'd set the bar so low; don't injure anyone, don't be a dick (as Dom can attest, i can be the whingy little ***** out there).
i didn't bother to tally our score when i submitted the card, just recorded each gross and signed it. we thought we'd done well enough to get a prize (thirty years playing that event and Mr. Curtis had never won) but you never know with that format.
when they announced the winning team by last name, it wasn't mine (team captain), and we sat there for a few moments looking around, then Don looked at Bernie and said, "Hey, that's you."