Nomadic Wines

Don't call it a comeback

Cause we never left! This is unrelated to wine, but sometimes good stories just need to be published. Today I drove out to Brentwood with three buddies for a round of golf. Handicaps matched up well, so we teamed up into good guys and bad guys. Durbin and I took on Lele and Raj. We agreed to play hi-lo and the game began. Hi-Lo is a version of a nassau. The stakes were $5 on the front 9, $5 on the back 9, and $5 for the total 18 holes. (For those scoring at home, in hi-lo you compare the two best scores and the two worst scores on each hole - thus there are 2 points available per hole.)

On the first hole, Lele casually rolled in a 50-foot putt for birdie. This after standing on the first tee complaining about his strained abdomen. Typical sandbagger material -- watch out for this behavior.

Our woes continued throughout the front 9 holes - by the end of the 10th hole, the good guys were down 7 points. They had dropped more putts and we were pretty much on the ropes... demoralized and just hope to squeak out a wine on the back 9 (so we would only owe $5 instead of $15).

Over the next 8 holes, Durbin and I won 12.5 out of the 16 points we could have won. It was a comeback of epic proportions, complete with clutch shots on the final hole and total shock from Lele/Raj. We look forward to the next opportunity to continue the trend.

Labels: golf

posted by nomadfromcincy @ 10:42 PM