Golf by its very nature is a difficult game to play
A player needing to put a golf ball in a small hole some 100
to some 600 yards away
Trying to stay in the fairway and avoid the water, sand
traps, bunkers and out of bounds
While miscues like slices, hooks, and shanks to the golfer’s
low score attempt confound
With putting greens surrounded ponds, creeks and sand
With greens so hard and slanted that a ball may not stop
where it lands
Or with greens too slow or too fast and maybe impossible to
read
And often played in winds that alter the ball’s path and
speed
Like tennis in golf spectators are motionless and silent
until a club has hit the ball
Then groans for an errant shot or cheers and applause for the
shot that enthralls
But today on TV and spectators lined up at the 18th
hole at the Travelers’ Championship
Watching Scottie Scheffler and Tom Kim battling neck and
neck for a win or playoff trip
Saw a band of climate change eco warriors burst out of the crowd
spraying the green
With police tackling them as fast as pro football players we
have seen
Wearing T-Shirts “No Golf on a Dead Planet” for support of their
cause
As a way to gain support hearing the outraged boos totally
flawed
Kim then birdied the hole and Scheffler with ice in his vein
made par
Then back to the 18th tee for a sudden death playoff
to see who would be barred
Kim hit his second shot into the trap and Scheffler his second onto the green 11 feet from the hole
Kim’s third shot soared out the trap to land 36 feet away
making a birdie or par a nearly impossible goal
Kim missed his fourth shot and Scheffler’s third shot was
inches short for an easy par
So Scheffler for the 6th time this year
was the winning star
And the climate change warriors in handcuffs sent off to
jail?
Seeking more support for climate change with their idiocy
failed
© 6/23/2024 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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