Even though last week was only 4 days I probably put in more hours than I do on a typical 5 day work week. I had to work from home for a few hours on Monday, then Tuesday I was at my desk for 14 hours straight. We had an offsite meeting on Wednesday that I had to prepare for, and I was a little nervous about it. I was in meetings most of the day on Wednesday, but when we got done we played some golf.
I was more worried about the business stuff than the golfing and when I left that morning I totally forgot my golf shoes. I didn't even bring any tennis shoes. I was going to play in my dress shoes, but that wouldn't have been much fun... so I did something completely out of character. I bought new golf shoes at the clubhouse on a whim. I wouldn't have normally done something so insanely drastic, but I had been talking about getting new golf shoes anyway, so it kind of worked out. I was thinking about the post about my cup and I realized that another item that I still owned from back in the day were my golf shoes. I bought some new Foot Joys my senior year of high school and I was still using them up to last week. Not that I play golf very often. Of course I had to buy another pair of Foot Joys considering my previous ones lasted me 10 years.
When I tell people I played for my high school golf team they usually assume I am pretty good. However, I am not. I only play a couple times a year these days. I still hit the ball pretty well considering, but I'm nowhere close to my former glory. I hadn't touched a golf club since I played a scramble in March and it showed. I played horribly. I still had fun, but it is tough to enjoy yourself when you are hitting it all over the course and three-putting consistently. Needless to say, I didn't impress anybody with my golfing skills, and all it did was make me want to play more so I could improve. I have neither the time nor money for that these days, so I will be content with my golfing mediocrity. At least I will be looking good in my nice new shoes while I pull-hook it into the trees.
