A few posts back I wrote about the Gunslinger Accident. My love for super duper hot sauce, especially my all time favorite Arizona Gunslinger, resulted in a large spill into my Mac keyboard. I’d exceeded the structural capacity of the white corn tortilla chip. The chip gave way under the immense pressure and dumped the load of Gunslinger right into my keyboard.
Unfortunately my keyboard didn’t pull through. The right shift key, the numbers 4-5-6 and the + sign no longer work. Time for a new keyboard.
As president and founder of “Golfers For Global Warming” I thought I’d mention that today is the weekly meeting.
The meeting place will be the 17th hole at River Oaks, pictured below. I birdied this hole yesterday. Today? Doubting it.
Golf blogging while eating chips and hot sauce can be dangerous. Perhaps it is time to clean my keyboard after my tragic hot sauce accident.
It is a shame to let my favorite hot sauce, Arizona Gunslinger, go to waste.
In this forum thread over at The Golf Space, my friend nicknamed motorman_mp3 wrote a sad story we’ve all heard too many times. He ran into the pro shop to get a beverage and when he came out his clubs were gone. His custom clubs worth thousands, with his name engraved on all of them and the bag, had been stolen.
mp3 was a former cop so he knew what process to go through, checking in with all the pawn shops etc. Most crooks try to pawn stolen items within 24-48 hours as I found out myself in a similar experience. They need cash fast, for drugs usually.
Less than one day later mp3 got a call from a pawn shop saying there’d been a call asking if they bought clubs. He hoped this was his set and it was.
“THE CLUBS ARE IN POLICE CUSTUDY”
The dumb a$$ showed up at the pawn shop with my clubs.
I will know more in a little while after I leave work.
The police called and told me that it was a 16 year old kid that showed up with them.
He had his 18 year old brother with him.
It appears that everything is still there. I will know more when I get there and I will update you with more info tomorrow.
Wow the folks at Golfsmith are big risk takers. Read a portion of their press release below, but it basically says that that if you buy one of three TaylorMade drivers from Golfsmith between now and April 11th, you’ll be refunded your money if Sergio Garcia wins the Masters.
It is no secret that I’m critical of Sergio. I lost respect for the guy when he spit in the hole on national TV and then denied it in a post round interview.
I’m also quite confident that Sergio will NOT win the Masters as his putting on the slick Augusta greens will be his downfall. In fact, I’m so confident that Sergio will not win the Masters that I’ll make the following statement.
IF SERGIO GARCIA WINS THE MASTERS, I’LL PLAY THE PAR-5 1ST HOLE OF MY HOME COURSE NAKED.
I have lost a few pounds recently. In fact, I weigh 10 pounds less than I did in high school. So there won’t be any beached whale sightings on the course should Sergio win. That being said, I’m no spring chicken and I don’t exactly have a six pack or abs of steel. 🙂
I’m not alone in my skepticism:
Deadspin piece (read the great comments, except for the Payne Stewart one)
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HOGWire – Golf Industry News
