Chip swung. He didn’t hit the ball. He hit the air, and the air hit him back. He flew six feet, landed in a patch of bog myrtle, and came up spitting peat.
Then came the 15th. “The Grave.” A par-3 over a bog where, the story goes, a Cromwellian soldier drowned in his own armor.
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“Hurley Purley Foursome,” old Jock McTavish would grunt, tapping ash from his pipe. “That’s no a game. It’s a reckoning.”
“The ball,” I hissed. “Where’s the ball?” Chip swung
I teed up the black gutty. It looked like a clot of night. My first swing was a prayer. The ball vanished.
“Find it,” I said.
No wind.
We searched on hands and knees, thistles stabbing our palms. Chip found it nestled in a fox’s footprint. He played our second shot. The brassie clanked off a buried rock. The ball screamed sideways into the gorse. He flew six feet, landed in a patch