CigarStone
For once, knowledge is making me poor!
Took a quick look and didn’t see a current topic like this so I thought I would give it a shot. I would love to hear some other BOTL’s stories.
In 1998 I qualified to play in the US Amateur qualifier being held at my club. My handicap had gotten below the required 1.9 maximum and our head pro told me I should give it a whirl even though we both knew the young guys would thump me. I practiced for a few days prior to the event and the day before the 36 hole qualifier I was out on the course playing when a couple golf carts came rolling up. It was the head pro and a couple of my buds from the club, they wanted to play in with me to see how I was playing. One of the guys was the guy who was going to caddy for me and this was all pretty special.
Now earlier that day I had purchased two OpusX and put them in a hard sided two stick holder. When I decided to stop at the club and play a practice round I threw them in my golf bag because I didn’t want them in my car in the extreme heat. So……part way through this practice round with the guys I decided to fire one up since this was all pretty great.
The club president was one of the guys who had joined me and he see’s me pull out a cigar and says “hey do you have another one”…..now I know he saw that I did have another one so I couldn’t lie to him. I dug through my bag for a leftover cigar knowing he wasn’t a cigar smoker and would not know the difference between a dog rocket and a dog turd, but ….no luck. So I give him the OpusX, he lights it and says “phuuieeee, I don’t know how you can smoke these things” and before I can catch him he throws it on the ground and stomps on it.
From that day forward I will “always” have a few $1 sticks in my golf bag.
In 1998 I qualified to play in the US Amateur qualifier being held at my club. My handicap had gotten below the required 1.9 maximum and our head pro told me I should give it a whirl even though we both knew the young guys would thump me. I practiced for a few days prior to the event and the day before the 36 hole qualifier I was out on the course playing when a couple golf carts came rolling up. It was the head pro and a couple of my buds from the club, they wanted to play in with me to see how I was playing. One of the guys was the guy who was going to caddy for me and this was all pretty special.
Now earlier that day I had purchased two OpusX and put them in a hard sided two stick holder. When I decided to stop at the club and play a practice round I threw them in my golf bag because I didn’t want them in my car in the extreme heat. So……part way through this practice round with the guys I decided to fire one up since this was all pretty great.
The club president was one of the guys who had joined me and he see’s me pull out a cigar and says “hey do you have another one”…..now I know he saw that I did have another one so I couldn’t lie to him. I dug through my bag for a leftover cigar knowing he wasn’t a cigar smoker and would not know the difference between a dog rocket and a dog turd, but ….no luck. So I give him the OpusX, he lights it and says “phuuieeee, I don’t know how you can smoke these things” and before I can catch him he throws it on the ground and stomps on it.
From that day forward I will “always” have a few $1 sticks in my golf bag.