Week Four of 52 Stories: In Love
Posted on 27. Jan, 2009 by Deb in As the Web Turns, The Game of Golf, The Girl
This is for the 52 Stories group on Flickr where we take one picture a week and write a story. This is mine for Week Four.
I am having a love affair. It may be an unrequited love, though I have this hope that one day, my love will be returned. Well, if not returned exactly, at least rewarded. Last Sunday, after losing about half a dozen balls to the Golf Water God, my love gave me what I had been seeking. The flight of a little white ball up and over the twelve-foot creek. My love? My 7-Iron.
My clubs have only been with me for about a month. I purchased them shortly before the New Year. Oh, and speaking of love, I love how they look. They are beautiful, all of their shiny little heads connected by flexible shafts to lovely grips. I researched Ladies clubs and though I don’t quite understand every bit of science and mathematics behind their creation, but I do know that of the six sets of clubs I considered before making the investment, these sounded the best when I hit the ball. They are much nicer than my first clubs, a heavy iron set of Wilson’s. And the lovely sounding (and lightweight) clubs were packaged in a beautiful blue and green bag. Seriously, do I look like the kind of girl who would carry around a hot-pink golf bag? Do you know how hard it is to find ladies golf clubs that aren’t packaged in pink, hot pink, or purple?
On my first couple of outings with my new clubs, my hybrid 5-iron was my favorite. But the over-the-water shot moved the 7-iron to the top of my list. It’s place in my heart was sealed when I hit off the tee box on a Par 3 hole and made it over yet another creek. I am new at golf, so managing to get the golf ball airborne a feat, let alone combining it with distance.
I know, I know. Don’t tell the other clubs that I am having and affair with the 7-iron. I don’t want them to be jealous.