These Covid times have brought out some real winners taking up the game.
Like the two guys I saw in front of me who looked like they were defensive linemen for an NFL team. After realizing they were a bit unsure about where they were driving and parking their cart on the third hole, then seeing the same thing when they were on the 4th, I figured I should explain things to them. So, I drove up to them to let them know they shouldn't drive or park their cart anywhere near, or in this case, on the fringe of the green. I explained that I was a long-time member and a course ambassador, not just some guy giving them orders. I was very nice about it. They looked at me like I was from Mars, but agreed not to drive where they shouldn't.
A few minutes later, as I was walking off the 4th green, I saw them drivng back towards me from halfway down the 5th hole. When they got close, one of them yelled over questioning again what I had told them.
"I thought you said we can't drive on the green," he said.
"Yes, that's right," I replied.
"Well, what about all those people?" He pointed to carts out in the fairway on a couple different holes visible from that location.
"What about them?" I asked.
"Well, they're driving all over the green," he said.
It was at that point I realized how truly clueless these two big linemen were to the game of golf. I had to explain to them the difference between a green and a fairway. Really, I'm not kidding. Even then, they still kind of looked at me like I was pulling their leg or something.
They continued to show me their ineptitude for the remainder of the 9 holes they played, including one of them dribbling 8 balls into the water off the front tee on the par 3, 6th hole, while I tried to wait patiently for him to finish on the tee behind them.
I've got a whole file of new, Covid-inspired golfers doing the damnedest things over the last year.
