HEY, BUDDY!--Chase a Ball Around a Pasture with the Democrats
When I was a boy back in CHEYENNE my mother, who had the social ambitions of those raised in poverty thrust among the white-gloves-and-pearls middle class of the 1950’s, was always after my father to join the Country Club. And he consistently resisted, not an easy thing to do when my mother got up a head of steam.
He explained it to me this way: “Son, I don’t know of any more foolish way for a man to spend an afternoon than to chase a ball through a pasture.” His idea of recreation was to don hip boots and flannel shirt and head out to some high, clear, and remote mountain trout stream for the Zen-like joys of fly fishing.
My father was a man of few words in the advice department. In my entire adolescence, I came away with just a handful of his pearls of wisdom:
- “Always remember there are three sources for the Missouri River-the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin.”
- “Don’t pop off in your socks, your mother is complaining.”
- “Never mix whiskey with anything sweet. If you can’t taste the alcohol, you’ll drink too much too fast.”
- And, of course, “Don’t chase a ball around a pasture.”
This had a profound affect on my development. I heeded Dad’s advice and never took up golf, a pass time I never could have afforded anyway. And I always associated golf with Republicans. Maybe it was growing up in the EISENHOWER years when the Commander in Chief was more apt to be pictured with putter in hand than in a flight suite making absurd utterances about a war he didn’t understand.
But over the years I have leaned that a lot of perfectly respectable people actually play golf. Half the union guys I know can be found out on the links on a nice Saturday morning.
So while I am not yet personally ready to take up the Scott’s game, I am more tolerant of those who get a dreamy, far away look in their eyes at the mention of TIGER WOODS.
McHENRY COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY
GOLF OUTING
Friday, October 5, 2007
PLUM TREE NATIONAL GOLF CLUB
in Harvard.
Four-person best-ball scramble
Plum Tree National Golf Club
19551 Lembcke Road • Harvard, Illinois 60033
Registration: 9:00 a.m.
Tee time: 10:00 a.m.
Dinner: 5:00 p.m.
Hole sponsor: $50 • Cart sponsor: $250
Lunch sponsor: $250 • Dinner sponsor: $500
Golf, lunch and dinner: $125
Company-sponsored foursome: $450
Dinner only: $42
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