http://thesandtrap.com/columns/thrash_talk/social_animals Golf News, Reviews, and Commentary Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:45:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://thesandtrap.com/columns/thrash_talk/social_animals#comment-7394 Mike Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:16:23 +0000 http://thesandtrap.com/columns/thrash_talk/social_animals#comment-7394 I'm jealous! I would like to belong to a club, and will someday (when I can kick my two kids out :lol: ). I'm jealous! I would like to belong to a club, and will someday (when I can kick my two kids out ).

]]> http://thesandtrap.com/columns/thrash_talk/social_animals#comment-7390 Mark Sanchez Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:09:49 +0000 http://thesandtrap.com/columns/thrash_talk/social_animals#comment-7390 I have a similar experience and I can relate. I am almost 60 now and I have played the course at Lackland AFB while in basic training there in 1968. A little secret for the attendees at Lackland at the time was that the golf course was the only place a "boot" could play a round of golf for $3. After the round you got a beer at the snack bar (the only place on base a "boot" could get a brew at the time) for only 75 cents. The two bits change went to the server as a tip usually. San Antonio is hot in July and there is something about the smell and green of the grass I remember and the heat of the course being sort of incongruous. I only played a couple of times there with a fellow boot. Once we played with a Lt. Col. named Fred (no last names), who ignored our really bad plaid Bermuda shorts, snow white tees shirts and shaved heads under canvas hats and we ignored his rank. I played golf the day Neil Armstrong landed on the moon and they let us watch the event in the barracks on a little black and white television. This was during Vietnam and Fred said to enjoy the golf while we could, there would be little in Southeast Asia, but he did say if we got a chance to play the course at Clark Field (Phillipines) be careful of the monkeys coming out of the jungle, they will steal your golf balls. The things you remember! :???: I have a similar experience and I can relate. I am almost 60 now and I have played the course at Lackland AFB while in basic training there in 1968. A little secret for the attendees at Lackland at the time was that the golf course was the only place a "boot" could play a round of golf for $3. After the round you got a beer at the snack bar (the only place on base a "boot" could get a brew at the time) for only 75 cents. The two bits change went to the server as a tip usually. San Antonio is hot in July and there is something about the smell and green of the grass I remember and the heat of the course being sort of incongruous. I only played a couple of times there with a fellow boot. Once we played with a Lt. Col. named Fred (no last names), who ignored our really bad plaid Bermuda shorts, snow white tees shirts and shaved heads under canvas hats and we ignored his rank. I played golf the day Neil Armstrong landed on the moon and they let us watch the event in the barracks on a little black and white television. This was during Vietnam and Fred said to enjoy the golf while we could, there would be little in Southeast Asia, but he did say if we got a chance to play the course at Clark Field (Phillipines) be careful of the monkeys coming out of the jungle, they will steal your golf balls. The things you remember!

]]> http://thesandtrap.com/columns/thrash_talk/social_animals#comment-7388 WhiteSoxFan Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:30:00 +0000 http://thesandtrap.com/columns/thrash_talk/social_animals#comment-7388 Nicely done JP. Nicely done JP.

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