[Namron] Re: Last HST Post and New Golf Game

[mikea]

>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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