You can learn a lot about people while playing golf

摘要

Please indulge me while I tell you of my proudest moment on the golf course. I promise not to bore you bragging of great shots or a low round. Quite the contrary, it concerns a lousy shot that may have cost me a tournament match. My drive sliced right and headed perilously close to a wooded area marked by white out-of-bounds stakes -an all-too-familiar occurrence with my game. So I hit a provisional ball that ended up where it belonged in the fairway, except it would represent my third shot. My opponent and two other playing partners all hit their drives to the left, so I trudged alone toward the woods to locate my first ball. I found it lying close to a white stake. When I lined that marker up with an adjacent stake, the ball was unmistakably out of bounds. Not by more than a couple of feet, but only if you crossed your eyes would you judge it to be in play. My companions were almost 100 yards away and paying little attention to me. They couldn't possibly tell if I were "in" or "out."