Well, summer is over and winter is just around the corner. They played the last big tournament out at the Rocky Field Golf Coarse. Why is it named Rocky Field ? Well there wasn't much water around and the rocks are just too big for it to be called Pebble Beach. In fact Angus McNut donated the land for the coarse about 10 years ago. It is a good coarse. Oh , I don't know exactly how many holes there are but I do know they have a different way of setting up par for each hole. Most of the players there are from around here and have played the coarse for years. So they pretty well know how many strokes it takes to get the ball in the hole. Anyway everyone has there own par for each hole based on thier past performances. Now you take hole
No. 1. It takes ole FatEye Cordell about six strokes to get it in the hole so it is a par 6 for him. Pont Hassell takes 7 so its a par 7 for him. Old Pete Codliver is 82 and it usually takes him anywhere from 10 to 15 strokes so 13
is his par. It just seems to be fairer that way.
The coarse has its signature holes just like those big corses. Like No.3 is called the " Gravel Road " . Its called that because of the very narrow fairway it has and if you don't hit it in the fairway you are usually hitting it in a depression on both sides. Well, shoot, I might as well confess. The reason its called " The Gravel Road" is because that is what it is. You drive down it and you'll wind up in Turkey, Texas, home of the King of Western Swing, Bob Wills. They have to constantly dig the dust out of the hole because of the traffic. -------- No.8 is called Rattlesnake Alley and I'm telling you , you had better not hit it in the rough there. We've lost three members that did and Ol'
Steamboat Jones ( called that because he walks around town making sounds like a steamboat whistle. The kids love it. ) lost his leg . It rotted off after he got bit. He has a wooden leg now which he uses as his putter. ------- The other signature hole is No.17. It has a heck of a story how it got its name. Its a long one with some very thick woods on the left side that not only borders the golf coarse but also goes clear over to highway 287. Well it seems like one day about five years ago a circus was traveling down 287 headed for Vernon when one of the trucks blew out two tires at once. Well, it was all the driver could do to stop it without turning over and it was so rough driving on those flat tires that the hinges fell off back door of the vehicle and suddenly the doors swung over and a large Bengal Tiger jumped out and ran into the woods. At the same time Spooky Canova who was driving off the tee box hit it sqaure in the middle of the woods, Well Spooky fought his way through the brush and finnally foind his ball in a little clearing just sitting up there ready to get whacked . Well Spooky bent over to be sure it was his ball and when he raised back up he was staring eye to eye with that Tiger, Instead of running Spooky gave the big cat a whack with his golf club. Knocking him out cold. When they ask him why he had taken such a chance of getting ate up by the Tiger Spooky told them that he had been playing this coarse for five years and had hit his Tee shot into the woods almost every game. He said that this was the first time he had ever found his ball and he wasn't about to let that Tiger get it. Whew! the guy evidently was crazy,. Anyway after that there was only on name for that hole. "Tiger Woods".
Well its a nice coarse and you all should come down and play sometime.
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