OUR
REGULAR GAME NO. 22
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Our
investigation into the secrets revealed by Bobby Jones’s recently
discovered golf journal continues in this chapter of “Our Regular
Game.” Again, it’s
important to understand that the secrets of easy golf that Jones
faithfully recorded in his special journal must be revealed slowly.
Simply put, they are much too powerful to be released to the world
all at once.
Charley Hunter and I have painstakingly reviewed the journal and
have categorized the secrets of easy golf in a logical progression.
By indexing the book in this way, we hope to reveal the secrets in
the best way they can be learned. For
that reason, it is imperative that you understand each lesson we share
before you move to the next. If
you miss a lesson, you must make it up before moving on.
Otherwise, you won’t appreciate the true magic of Bobby Jones’s
easy golf or receive the full benefit of it.
Before getting into this week’s lesson, we must warn you that we
have already received threats from those within the conspiracy.
Shortly after Charley Hunter and I began sharing the secrets of
easy golf in “Our Regular Game,” my golf cart exploded when I tried to
start it. Fortunately, I was
unhurt, but the message was clear: Those select few who have been privy to
the secrets of easy golf don’t want the rest of the world to know about
them.
Fortunately for our fans, Charley and I aren’t so easily
intimidated. We understand
the enormous historical significance of what we have here, and not even
Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and Arnold Palmer can shut us up.
(Now, somebody named Guido — that’s another story.)
Anyway, we wanted you to know that we are risking our own safety in
order to get this valuable information to you.
Don’t thank us, though, just use the secrets of easy golf to make
the world a better place. That’s
thanks enough for us.
Now for this week’s secret.
Most of you older golf fans remember Arnold Palmer in his heyday.
Palmer is easily the most charismatic and popular golfer of all
time. In fact, according to Chi Chi Rodriguez, Arnold Palmer
invented golf.
The fans especially loved the way Palmer attacked a golf course.
In contrast to Ben Hogan, who dissected a course with a surgeon’s
scalpel, Palmer hacked away at it with a machete, playing with total
abandon. As you might expect,
the results were often spectacular — sometimes spectacularly good,
sometimes spectacularly bad. For
instance, there’s Arnie’s dramatic charge from seven strokes behind
with a final round 65 to win the U.S. Open at Cherry Hills in 1960.
Sadly, however, there is his equally dramatic collapse on the back
nine at the U.S. Open at Olympic in 1966 to squander a huge lead and
eventually lose in a playoff to Billy Casper.
Part of the Palmer drama involved the way he hitched his pants when
he was about to make a charge. We
all remember that as a sign that Arnie was about to make a move.
In Bobby Jones’s journal, we learned for the first time the real
truth about Arnie’s hitching move.
Turns out his pants were too big.
All those years, we hitched our pants, and nothing happened.
Now we know why.
About the Author
J. Michael Veron is the acclaimed author of The
Greatest Player Who Never Lived and The
Greatest Course That Never Was. His third novel, tentatively titled
The Caddie, is scheduled for release in the spring of 2002.
Mike's work has earned him the title of "master
of fiction" from USA Today, and Travel and Leisure Golf Magazine
has called him "The
John Grisham of Golf." In addition, the New York Times hailed The
Greatest Player as "Golf's
Literary Rookie of the Year," and the Seattle Times ranked The
Greatest Player as second on its all-time list of "Five Wonderful
Golf Books." At one time,
The Greatest Player and The
Greatest Course were the first and third best-selling sports fiction
in the country.
Please contact us
for more information on Mike and his work.
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