Daylight Savings?? A Dream Golf Shot and Support Hancock
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| Yeah, right... |
The story is spring your clocks forward an hour, lose an hour of sleep and gain an hour of light. Really??. You do lose an hour of sleep, but how is there more daylight than the day before? Science says the earth rotates every 24 hours. The amount of daylight stays the same, the clock only changes. Science also has proven that more strokes and heart attacks occur in the few days following the spring forward, than the same number of days preceding. We are older than most and can't afford this risk and need as much light in the cooler part of the day for playing golf. There is a lot of talk about getting off of daylight savings in the future. Call, write or visit your congress representatives at the state and national level and give them your opinion. My opinion is when fall arrives and we return to standard time this year that we leave our clocks set there forever more. Sorry, I may be a little grumpy as I lost an hour of sleep and want it back in the future.
Have you ever daydreamed about a shot or round you played long after you played it? Thursday March 11, 2021 became one of those dreams. The last few weeks I have been playing a practice round on Thursdays at Kizer with 3 of our ASGA members, Don Akers, Bill Burke and David Brader. They are a very fun group. David as our lowest handicapper in the group often hits last on par 3's and Bill often says to he uses our collectively closest shot to the hole as a target and generally gets inside it. Thursday, he arrived first and went ahead with his shot and now we know he really does not need a target as it settled about 2 or so feet from the hole slightly right. Bill said,
one thing for sure we can't get inside that great shot. I stepped up and looking at the set-up and said there is one way that I could see, "I plan to bank off his ball and go in the hole." Don then added to the conversation by saying, "If you do that I will give you a twenty dollar bill." In mid-flight the ball was looking pretty good and Don added and it has to bank off his to count for the $20. Dreams do come true, it did touch his golf ball and it did go in the hole for my third ever hole-in-one. I told Don forget the "twenty" the thrill of it would be enough for me. Don, being the gentleman he is, said "no way" and that he considered the $20 very much worth it. It was so much fun and forever will be a dream of mine to replay. I could not have asked for three more fun players to share the dream experience.
One of the most historical golf courses in Austin is Hancock. Many times various proposals have come along to eliminate or change it. Lately it has really grown in popularity and is a fun course to play. Considerations to make it a park, turn it into a practice area and 9 hole 3 par course or improve on it as one of our only 9 hole courses and keep it as a golf course. A survey is being conducted to help decide it's future. I think it has an excellent chance to survive. You can help the cause by completing the survey at this link. It will just take a couple minutes. I have played it many times and really like it. You should play it, too. The link for the survey is
https://austinenergy.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1Tyloojt1kmzAc6
(email required to take survey)
This News has been brought to you on behalf of the ASGA Board of Directors and The Austin Senior Golf League,
Travis McWhorter
President
