I want to write a little note for this year's T of C players.
What do you say to somebody who just shot a 64 from the tips on Boyne Mountain’s Alpine golf course?
You might say:
"Congratulations! Thank you for showing me that this course will indeed yield LOW scores?"
"Good job! Thank you for making me feel so inept."
"Show off! Hey, I have an open spot on my team in a family reunion scramble next weekend. How’d you like to play as my guest?"
I’ll go with all of the above.
In case any of the participants are reading this, I really do have a spot open on my team next weekend. Drop me a note and we’ll run roughshod over all my in-laws. You will have an opportunity to drink from the Andrew Jackson Challis. This is big stuff. Really. And I make for pretty good company on a golf course and I really, really need to win this thing. Once, just once. They all know who the BOYNE golf pros are, but YOU would fly right under the radar. All you have to do is say that we grew up together.
Forget that you just played for the chance to bring home a $10,000 check, green jacket, lifetime membership to the Country Club of Boyne and your own impressively large trophy.
If we win, your name will be on an electroplated metal matrix and wood veneer trophy FOR ALL OF ETERNITY. That's pretty darn close to immortality.
Tin Cup would do it.
Call me. Please?
-JJ