| Bittersweet is the best way I can describe | | | | card), even a vague notion of what birdies and pars |
| witnessing someone else's hole-in-one. Today, when | | | | are. But a Hole-in-one is so foreign to my mind, I fear |
| out repairing my testosterone leak, I witnessed my | | | | I will be in my nineties before my subconscious |
| friend Dudley hit one of the ugliest 8 irons in the | | | | catches on. |
| history of golf; on #11 of Stone Fairways, a 148 | | | | I was told some time ago by a Tony Robbins disciple, |
| yard, par 3. The ball came out low and left to a far | | | | that in order to pre-program your subconscious, you |
| right pin. It hit the very edge of the green and | | | | need to write down your goal in a positive form. |
| bounced right (it is Stone Fairways after all), checked | | | | Well, in my wallet is a tattered little yellow |
| up and rolled all the way across the green and fell | | | | posted-note. On it are scribbled the words "I WILL |
| into the hole. | | | | hit a hole-in-one". After 10 years of toting around this |
| Don't get me wrong I'm genuinely excited for Dudley. | | | | tiny little paper my desire to get hole-in-one and the |
| I slapped him around a bit, to get him out of his | | | | other thing written on the note; "I WILL win the |
| catatonic state. Got him in the cart, drove him to the | | | | Lotto Jackpot" go unfulfilled. |
| green, and led him by the hand to pin, to pluck the | | | | Admittedly I have slightly lessened my odds of |
| ball from the cup. Made sure he kept the ball | | | | winning the jackpot by not buying lotto tickets, but I |
| separate from all the less mystical balls, and proudly | | | | play a fair amount of golf and there have been |
| toasted him on the 19th hole. | | | | plenty of opportunities for the magic to happen. |
| Still the whole time thinking; I really, REALLY want a | | | | At this point I've consciously done everything |
| hole-in-one myself. | | | | possible to make a hole-in-one a reality. |
| It one of those things most golfers want to do at | | | | While everyone in the clubhouse was drinking |
| least once in their life. I don't obsess over it, but it's | | | | Dudley's credit card dry, I asked him what IS the |
| been on my list for a while and it just ain't happening. | | | | secret to accomplishing this heroic feat. Did he |
| I have always believed that if you have a goal, even | | | | visualize the moment, get hypnotized, Check his |
| with out a concrete plan, the subconscious will | | | | astrology chart and wait till the planets align, pray to |
| somehow figure out how to get there. Now most of | | | | the golf gods... what was it he did to make the |
| the time this works pretty good for me, but | | | | seemingly impossible, possible!? |
| apparently my subconscious has no concept of what | | | | He didn't say anything, with a smile on his face, pulled |
| a hole-in-one is, or how to achieve it. Not a clue. | | | | his wallet out and inside was a little yellow |
| My subconscious is absolutely crystal clear on what | | | | posted-note, on it were written the words "I WILL |
| bogeys and double-bogeys are, has an intimate | | | | hit a Hole-in-One". |
| knowledge of what a "Snowman" is (that's an 8 for | | | | My subconscious and I are no longer on speaking |
| those of you who only see low numbers on you | | | | terms. |