I made the tee time and texted Landon and Braden and told them to be ready to go golf. I arrived home and they were waiting with three golf bags in the back of the van....oh yeah!
It was completely awesome.... got a cart, loaded up, but not before we supplied ourselves with three 32oz Dr. Peppers full of ice, milky ways stashed in a deep pocket of our golf bags for later (ok, we didn't actually have the Milky Way's but we should have..... and, they only would have lasted til the second hole) and absolutely no expectations of doing anything else but pretending to focus on technique we knew little about, mimicking the pro's with little wigs and wags of hips, feet and hands..... Every swing was like a new adventure, cause none of us knew where that little ball might go. So, yes, very exciting! There is a certain freedom that comes with a clear mind free from expectation.....and very little skill!
I can't lie, it was kinda cool too that this course was super low cost. One or two levels up from a well mowed farm meadow.
Isn't it so great to accidentally hit a lucky shot and then feel your chest and head swell with enormous confidence! We immediately throw out the idea that it was just dumb luck and we entertain the new forming fantasy of "tour pro".
Ha! Golf is the great "deconstructor" It can reduce you to a pile of rubble if you start to care too much. We managed to navigate that mine field pretty well.
Forget golf though.... that had little to do with what was happening. This was all about just being together and taking the time to just soak......As if slowly sipping through the straw....like making a drink last for a really long time....sweetness all the way.
That will be all I remember, not anything we said, not any club selection, not counting strokes or glancing at the time on our phones. We simply basked in the slow roll of the afternoon.
It was better than perfect.... it was..... "just right"
Priceless.....
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