I think I am going to put an ad on
Craigslist today and it is going to say this:
"Golfer who can sometimes hit a straight drive 350 yards but can't do anything else would love to play on your scramble golf team. I can't putt -- not even gimme putts. Seriously I am the worst putter ever. But did I mention I can straight mash off the tee? I mean sometimes it goes straight. I will even grunt occasionally when I hit it and chest bump a Falcons fullback when I do hit a good one. If interested please contact Mookie Dunkleman."
That is pretty much what I learned about my golf game yesterday when I had the privilege to play in the Verizon Wireless Network of Champions Golf Tournament.
As you can read from my ad, I really have zero short game. I think I know how Steve Sax and Chuck Knoblauch felt when they had to throw the ball from second to first base.
That is how I feel when I step onto the putting green.
Now I know I sound depressed.
Not true at all.
I had the best time ever yesterday. I had the privilege of playing with Eric Hagar from WSB Sports, Kenny Price from WXIA Sports, J. Michael Moore from Atlantafalcons.com, and Falcons fullback Corey McIntyre.
The five of us may have finished in a tie for 21st, but if you kept score on number of jokes and amount of laughter we would have crushed the rest of the field.
After I told J. Mike to relax after hitting another screamer into the water, I turned to him and said that of all the Falcons that we could have played with, Corey McIntyre is the perfect person for our team.
The man is hilarious and he hits his drives like I do.Very hard but you never know where they are going.
But I do have to tell you about the highlight of my day...
It was the Par 3 12th hole. It was the hole for the hole in one hole competition. If you knocked the ball into the cup, you won a Lincoln Navigator.
I think it was around 179 yards so I hit a teed up 7 wood and away it went.
Left to right and it landed five feet from the hole. I was the closest contestant all day to winning the car.
But we weren't playing horseshoes, we were playing golf.
So no prize for me.
Anyway, please invite us back next year, Verizon. It was one of the best times I have had in a while!