With Bunty on "Nanny" duties with the twins, I took the opportunity to hit the white ball at the Fairways Golf Driving Range.
Notwithstanding the newly acquired (used) set of Callaway woods and irons with graphite shafts, I'd also got a pretty good copy of the "John Jacob" book of 50 best golfing lessons off eBay and it really is the Oracle at Delphi when it comes to golf tuition.
Some 50 years ago when I first took up the sport I had a couple of his books (albeit with a sort of soft cover like a magazine) and they'd long since gone in some house clearance or other in the intervening moves. The book was ostensibly for Wilma and her ever steady improvements in golf, but the lure of his expert tuition was not lost on me and it paid dividends today.
Yes there were a couple of shanks, but for the most part the shots were straight and reasonably long as I attempt to roll back the years off playing the sport with the gammy knees.
Would that I could still get a round of golf on the "Old Course" at St Andrews for the 12/6d it cost in 1968.
Fore !!
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