Played a round with an awesome partner today

[darkhunter139]

People always start threads when they get stuck with a really bad partner so I figured I would add a good story to the forums.

Went out to play 18 and this older guy asked me if I wanted to play with him at the first tee.  I figured sure why not and watched as he tee'd it up at the white tees (about 6000 yards).  This guy looked to be in his 70s so I thought to myself oh boy this is going to be a long day.  He took out his driver and hit it about 180-190 yards and wound up on the green in 3 shots.   He then drained a 30 foot putt for par and I two putted for bogey...

At around the 5th hole he tells me that he is turning 90 in June...I was shocked.  This guy was walking the course and told me he played 4 times last week and walks 18 holes once a week during the spring/summer.  He was bragging about how all his friends take carts and moved up to the yellow tees and he still walks and plays whites.  He probably would be better off playing the forward tees but if he is making pars/bogeys who am I to complain?  I was amazed at his putting skills too!

He took off after 9 holes but I was impressed! Fun round of golf.

Oh yeah and I am pretty he might have beat me by a shot on the front 9 with a 43.

[Jwat381]

That's the guy I wanna be someday. Cool story - I played 9 with a guy like that one time. He was quite a bit older and had had several lower body surgeries. His swing was a half swing at best, but he was still making some pars and bogeys.

[TheGeekGolfer]

Great posting.  I had a similar encounter 2 years ago in Medford, OR.  I travel there to visit my in-laws a couple of times a year and usually golf as  a single.  I met a guy that was 73 and was in better shape than me.  He was driving it 260 yds and I beat him barely by a stroke, I shot an 80 to his 81.  Could have gone either way.  Compare this to my father-in-law, who won't even take a walk around the block.  I love the guy, but when it comes to living life in your 70s and beyond, I look at the golfer I met as my inspiration.

[Rednax1530]

Last summer I was playing a round of golf on my own and the 2 groups in front of me were pretty slow.  The guy behind me (probably in his 50s) was also playing alone so we got talking at the tee box of the 4th hole while waiting for the group in front of us to carry on.  We decided to join up so we wouldn't have to wait too much and then we skipped the 4th hole just to bypass the 2 slow groups in front.

As the round continued we had some great conversation, and now plan on golfing more often together. I must say it was pretty refreshing to meet some nice relaxed and personable people on the course. So  often people are getting upset about other people being slow, or having bad shots.  So ya. Kudos to the golfers who can make a round enjoyable

Mitch G

[Roblar]

LOL - something like that happened to me over Christmas break. I was in Oakland and I got paired with two guys - a 50-something and a 70-something.  The older guy was called "Coach", and he said he'd had a hip replaced a little while back so he had trouble really hitting hard.  ...then he takes what looks like a 3/4 swing and knocks the ball about 240 yards to the middle of the fairway.  He said before the hip-replacement, he used to get close to 300.  Unreal.  The guy was a solid-gold talker too.  Real fun round.  (And the other guy was nice as well.)