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The Dalai Lama Would Have Taken a Drop

by Mark Jabo

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There are a lot of reasons to hate golf.

It takes up absurd amounts of time and space, it’s pretentious and elitist and, despite $500 worth of lessons, I can’t shoot better than 105.

On top of everything else, if this story from the Reno Gazette-Journal is any indication, golfers may be bigger contributors to global warming than a caravan of Exxon oil trucks.

It seems that a golfer at the Wildcreek golf course near Reno hit a bad tee shot that landed well into the rough. That’s when the fun started. According to the article:

When he tried to play back to the fairway, his club struck something that created a spark that started the fire.

The resulting brush fire burned close to 20 acres, required six fire engines to control and, even worse, backed up tee times for nearly seven hours.

It’s just this kind of environmental carelessness that ruins thing for other golfers. It won’t be long before country clubs start raising membership dues and adding an extra charge to cover a contingency fund for carbon offsets.

Plus, you know this guy is going to ask for a bunch of additional strokes on his handicap the next time he plays.

This is what makes golf so interesting. Just when you think you have it mastered, something happens to surprise you.

And just when you go through a full pack of matches trying to fire up your backyard barbecue, some clown comes along and starts a multi-acre conflagration with a set of titanium clubs from Wal Mart.

It’s true what they say: golf is a humbling game.

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Thanks to the great sports blog, With Leather, for uncovering this story.


Posted in General on June 21st, 2007

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Environmental Talk is a blog that attempts to do the impossible . . . which is to have a reasoned and nuanced approach to the science and issues surrounding global warming. At the same time, we are not above taking the occasional potshot at the extremists and posers on both sides of the topic.

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