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Slim Randles' Home Country
Creating the Perfect Golf Fundraiser
The More Impossible the Play Is, the More They
Like It
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[November 17, 2007]
Some things aren't allowed to go away, no matter how much
a person might want them to, and no matter how much sense it makes
to do away with them. It was that way with Doc's golf tournament. |
 Last fall, to raise money for coats for kids who needed them, Doc
talked two farmers out of the use of their pastures and set up the
only 18-hole golf course in history that was created in an hour and
a half. Each of the 18 holes had a hole (personally dug by Doc with
a shovel) and a flag by the hole (a steel tee-post personally
pounded in by Dud) and a tee-off spot (personally teed-off by Herb
Collins).But that was all the course had. If there was grass on
the fairway, it was because the cows missed a bite. The whole course
was hazard. The 10th hole alone had two rock piles and a manure sump
to negotiate. The second hole required people to clear a prairie dog
town or lose the ball forever to the abode of confused and
terrorized rodents.
Well, everyone had fun, and the whole thing was won by Delbert
Chin, owner of the Gates of Heaven Chinese restaurant, who came in
with the low score of 312.
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Doc wasn't really excited about doing it again, but first one,
then another of our locals pestered him until he relented and set
out a whole new course this year, including the elementary school
playground and the town's sewage treatment lagoons.
Twice as many people signed on to play this year, and Doc admits
that next year's course might have to take in the gravel quarry just
east of town.
"The hardest part about this tournament," he told the boys down
at the Mule Barn truck stop, "is figuring out what par should be."
[Text from file received from Slim Randles]
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