Memories of 2020: If 2020 were a Round of Golf
Top 10 golf exploits that resemble 2020’s adventures:
- While wiping down the golf cart, you unconsciously wipe the container of Clorox wipes with a Clorox wipe.
- Your perfect approach shot on #1 hits the pin and kicks into the canyon.
- Between holes, you rush to the restroom to discover the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 continues.
- After hitting 30-yard slices all round, you finally get to the dog-leg right tee-shot, only to hit your first hook of the day.
- In desperate need of snacks for the course, you reluctantly discovered that your mid-40s body is looking old. At the turn, you confess to your playing partners you accidentally went to Trader Joe’s during “senior hour,” and they didn’t hesitate to let you in, no questions asked.
- Between 3 putts, you start using “F-bombs” like a comma.
- During your pre-shot routine, you can’t shake the distracting 80’s song insistently repeating in your head. Due to social distancing, surely not everybody was Kung Fu fighting.
- The best contact you made all day with the ball was from a greenside bunker.
- Your smart-ass playing partner declares, “In retrospect, back in 2015, not a single golfer got the answer right to ‘Where do you see yourself five years from now?'”
- Finally, it was all fun and games until our golf pants didn’t fit anymore.
Hang in there. We are all diagonally parked in a parallel universe. Just like every single round of golf, our resilience is being tested.
Dodie Mazzuca is the author of “Golf Sūtras,” “Daily Golf Tap-Ins,” and founder of Golf PROformance. She teaches golf lessons, golf yoga workshops, and mindfulness for golf programs in Santa Cruz, CA.