[Namron] Re: Last HST Post and New Golf Game
mikea
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Fri Feb 25 09:06:24 PST 2005
>From a friend who liked Hunter S. Thoimpson's work:
> Just prior to his death Hunter S Thompson
> invented a new sport, Shotgun Golf, with Bill
> Murray. His description:
>
> "The game consists of one golfer, one shooter
> and a field judge. The purpose of the game
> is to shoot your opponent's high-flying golf
> ball out of the air with a finely-tuned
> 12-gauge shotgun, thus preventing him (your
> opponent) from lofting a 9-iron approach
> shot onto a distant "green". Points are
> scored by blasting your opponent's shiny
> new Titleist out of the air and causing
> his shot to fail miserably. After that,
> you trade places and equipment, and move
> on to round two.
>
> Go out this weekend and play it in tribute.
>
> Read HST's last ever column:
> http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1992213
Makes me want to go out and buy a shotgun, some golf clubs, and a
set of golf balls.
Do you know why the game got called "golf"? Because "damn!" was taken.
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Mike Andrews / Michael Fenwick Barony of Namron, Ansteorra
mikea at mikea.ath.cx / Amateur Extra radio operator W5EGO
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