Umdoni Park, Natal South Coast,
On forest birding stroll –
The strangest birds this place can boast
Hit balls towards that pole!
A whole in ‘won’ is offered here,
For golfers to enjoy,
But drive your ball too far, I fear
Your caddie needs a buoy
To help retrieve the wretched thing:
The water-hazard there
Does tend to be quite interest-ting –
Conducive to despair –
In front of it, I must point out,
A sand-trap’s to be found
Far worse than bunkers all about –
Sun-bathers there abound!
Perhaps you should give up the game
Of which you are so fond;
Scratch off, from playing lists, your name,
And paddle in that pond!
© Colonialist October 2015 (WordPress)
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You wouldn’t want to paddle in the pond on our golf course here. There be alligators lying in wait for unsuspecting golfers, and they’re they’re certainly not piddly little ones. 😯
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That gives an entirely new dimension to the thought of a water hazard.
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😳🐊
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Never understood the attraction of golf. I think it’s more fun just to walk around. Why complicate things with swinging a club to get an impossibly small ball into a tiny hole a very long distance away? I mean, who came up with this form of torture, anyway? 😐
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All ball games are silly, when you come to think of it. This one is just a bit sillier than most.
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Yes, I agree. I once said aloud to a female friend as we were pondering the attraction of baseball, football, basketball, etc., “Men and balls…what’s up with that?” She just looked at me and started to laugh. 🙂
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How strange that it should prick her sense of humour?
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🙂
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I say go for it, forget the golf and lay down quietly to enjoy the sun💕
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Particularly on hot days, they must be sorely tempted!
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My ball would never reach that beach, Col, never mind the water. It would take me a month to even hit it with that cue thingy. I’m not too good at golf…
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Actually, the blob on the end of the stick is quite a good size and whacking the pill with it isn’t that hard. Hitting it anywhere near the direction it’s supposed to go is another matter entirely.
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Gowf is a mist-eerie to me.
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Scary, too, they way it creates followers of the Little White Blob Which Shows The Way to the Whole.
I gather that when the blob goes into the hole, that makes them Holy,
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Do you actually play the Darn thing? Or do you stick to Cricket?
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You almost have a birdie eye view there
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You’ve hit on it!
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LOL! Too many clever rhymes here already, so I’ll simply note the following: There’s a reason why golf is ‘flog’ spelled backward. But as long as I can get over the desire to herd the ball toward the hole, it’s a lovely excuse to walk around enjoying the scenery!
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I do like that backward view!
Crazy game, actually. You swat this blob using unwieldy instruments until it goes into a hole, but instead of heaving a sigh of relief you promptly lift it out again and start swatting towards another one. Generally attention is focussed on the blob and participants seems oblivious of the scenery.
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An in-the-rough draft, I see? How long wood it take to iron out all the problems?
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I thought you might putt a question like that …
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Well, I had to chip in with something!
I can’t let you have it all your own way.
You might be a fairway ahead of the crowd, that’s no doubt, but when it comes to not letting you get away with such literary murder I have you pegged to a Tee, Mister N.
How’s the Birthday Week , btw?
Smooth and easy, with no dog-legs I hope?
🙂
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Chip-shape indeed, said he eagle-ly, bird-he did not show how on wedge this stance had made him.
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Now that is a brilliant idea
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Hahahaha, isn’t it a joke where the rhyming leads us! Love the last line Col.
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Shouldn’t that be “piddle”?
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There are some piddling ponds laid on for the kids just down the coast a bit! Of course, in spelling one is always told that ‘bathing’ has a silent P.
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With a few inks
in the links
you could have it all.
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Do you sink so?
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