Virtual Links

My awesome beautiful caring wife went above and beyond the call of duty last night. For the last ten years, literally, I have been wining about how bad my golf swing is getting because of our choice to live in a place where the term "slice" and "hook" refer to the ways in which someone baits fish, not the tragetory of one's ball flight. Every time I watch golfing on tv or read of my family enjoying the links, I get as blue a baby in cold bath water. So, yesterday my wife asks me out on a date. She knew I was pretty blue because of my good buddy at rustyhinges.com sinking his first hole-in-one. (you should all congratulate him, he won't know who you are but that's ok, something this cool and rare deserves celebration) I wasn't blue for him obviously, but for my own yearnings of striking a ball on the back nine that makes you enjoy life just a little bit more.

So, we head out on our date and Dominique surprises me by taking me to a fully functional computer simulated virtual golf game. There is a guy in our small town that has built a little club house of sorts where he has this simulated virtual set-up. We hit our balls, using real clubs, in to a big computerized screen that would then show your ball traveling through the air, or along the ground, on a real course. Dom and I played the first nine at Pebble Beach. Oh how great it was to make a full swing again, hitting a real ball. The last full swing I made was with my son's plastic clubs in our living room and that ended with everyone wrestling for the oversized plastic golf ball. I was amazed at the realness of the computerized graphics. I felt like Tiger Woods in his Madden 2005 Golf game. When you live on an island with all these fish, escaping to Pebble Beach was just pick me up I needed. Virtual golf is better than no golf right? See you at Pebble.