Posted on 04/29/2019 11:51:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Snerdley just asked me what was the best moment of my weekend. I had vowed not to talk about it. You know, I don’t talk about myself. All right. Let me see if I can… Look at the clock. Okay. I played golf yesterday. The people I was supposed to play with got sick and couldn’t play. So it was just me playing by myself with my caddie, which is good, because I played 27 holes in three hours, and you really get through this, and there’s no time to get down on yourself, no time to get pessimistic. No time.
Just, bam, bam, bam you go. Number 17 at the course I played is a par 5, a 500-yard par 5, and the second shot (if you hit a decent enough drive), you have to get over a couple of pretty tall trees if you have any prayer at all of either going for the green or getting close to it. Otherwise, you have to go to around those trees, and there’s no way that you can get on the green in two. But your drive has to be perfectly placed, which mine was. It was about 290 yards.
I had a little uphill lie after it was all over, following wind that helped the drive. So I grabbed my Hybrid 3, the Rescue version of a 3-iron. I’ve got 213 yards to the pin. I’ve got these two trees. They’re not tiny. I mean, they’re not sky-high, but you’ve got to have a club that’s gonna get you over those trees. Normally a 3-iron, 5-iron, 6-iron (unless you know what you’re doing), you’re not gonna be able to get over them. You can’t get there — I couldn’t — with anything less than a 4-iron.
So I grabbed the Rescue 3, the Hybrid 3, and I made sure in the backswing to get the club up. I flushed it. I flushed. It had a perfect right-to-left draw (“curve,” for those of you in Rio Linda), and as I’m watching… I flushed it, folks. There’s nothing… You flush a golf shot right in middle of club face, it just feels almost orgasmic. I’m watching it and I’m watching it, and I say, “Darn it, it’s drawing too much. It’s gonna end up maybe pin high but left and maybe in a bunker.” So I give up looking at it. The caddie says, “Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It could have gone in! It could have gone in!”
I said, “No, no. It’s way too far left.” So we get up there and we’re looking for the ball. We look beyond the green, can’t find it. We look to the right of the green, which trails off into the water; we can’t find it. We look for it everywhere. Is it short? We went back 50 yards, couldn’t find it. The caddie says, “It’s gotta be in there. It’s gotta be in!” So he walks up to the cup, peers down, into the cup, looks up in frustration, puts his hands on his hips.
“It’s in there!” he said. “It’s in there! You holed it!”
So I had a double eagle from 213 yards with a Hybrid 3. I’ve got the picture pulling the ball out of the cup. I’ve got a picture of ball in the cup with Rush EIB on it. Titleist number 30 for 30 years broadcast anniversary, and I’m told that never in the history of this course has there been a double eagle, 213 yards. It hit. We found the ball, hit about five yards short of the green on the left, and kicked right and rolled almost the length of the green. The cup was way at the back of the green. It rolled almost the length of the green to get back in the hole.
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RUSH: By the way, folks, one thing about my double eagle, in the official world of golf, it never happened because there were no witnesses. If you hit a hole-in-one and it’s just you playing by yourself and you tell people you had a hole-in-one, they’ll say, “Fine and dandy,” but it doesn’t go in any book, it doesn’t count, because there aren’t any witnesses. You have to be playing in a threesome or foursome where everybody sees it.
It’s the same thing here with a shot like a double eagle. The caddie and I saw it. It happened. But in the world of golf it didn’t happen because there are no witnesses. And since people are people and lie and make things up you have to discount it. But it doesn’t matter to me. It happened. I did it. And I had a great time telling you about it. But it won’t count for anything. Like the club where it happened will make no official mention of it ‘cause it hasn’t been witnessed, hasn’t been confirmed.
Golf is a game of many things, including honor. And even though everybody who plays the game is considered to bring honor and respect for the rules of golf — except Goldfinger in Oddjob, they didn’t, but other people do. Even with those assumptions, you still have to have shots like that witnessed before they are officially recognized.
thanks.
speaking of the double eagle club, check out their dissertation on the subject.
http://www.doubleeagleclub.org/index.php?suffix=scoring_terms
Yes I’m familiar with the phase. LOL
Thanks for the ‘ping’... My hole in one - Army/Navy course in Hawaii - luckily three partners to witness... Told my one of my regular partners afterwards : “I eagled #3 today.” Took him a minute to figure it out. 7-iron - 167 yards, can see it 25 years later...
wait, what ? this discussion is not a matter of life or death ?
bummer.
came close to double eagle a couple of times...ended up putting for eagles.
too old to have that kind of length anymore.
Have 3 eagles in my golfing lifetime. no hole in one that’s verified.
I still keep hackin away at it...though not recently...this past weekend snow and rain for the next 3-4 days - starting to go mad...
Once saw the odds for scoring a double eagle after reading about Gene Sarazen's at Augusta.
After your 1000th hole-in-one, you are ready for your 1st double eagle.
Started playing golf last year when I turned 60. I’m almost good enough to start keeping score.
Don't get mad, get even!!!!!
“Double Eagle” to me is a $20 gold piece.
I wish...when we could play, so far, it’s been cart path only or 40 mph winds and one rain out while on course...gunna go back to walking as I can...easier than cart path only.
I have a remote control cart, makes walking ok.
Now if I can just find the bottom of my swing....
Hit it hard...it’ll come down somewhere.
FreeRegards
Lol!
When I started to play golf in the late 1950’s, the old men referred to a two on a par five as an “albatross”. It is archaic but it stuck with me. I never holed a second shot on a five but when and if I do, it will be an albatross. Some my refer to a hole in one on a par three as an “eagle” but to me it will always be my “ace”. You may call a hook a draw while I may call a slice a fade. Golf is golf. No one every quit the game because it was too easy.
How fun would it be to play 18 holes with the President and the Donald. That would be the ultimate bucket list item for me...
Boy, that would be sweet. My former golf buddy (RIP, Peter) played with Dan Quayle when he was VP and said he was the best 5 or 6 he ever played with. My friend was about a plus one at the time. I work for a local government and shortly after Trump’s inauguration, I found a great photo on some webstie of Trump and Arnold Palmer standing on a tee. I printed it out and it hangs on the wall of my cube. AFter I hung it, half my co-workers stopped talking to me. But that’s OK because I said not one word for the eight long years the Bulack Osama photos hung on their cube walls.
Depends on the wind. I’m close to Rush’s age, and build... If I hit it good, with some wind at my back, I can still get to 300 yards.
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