In which an ambitious target is set.
I've learned that my best scores come from not thinking too much about scoring, but by focussing on one shot at a time.
But golf is a game of numbers and I've been dwelling on a couple for a while now.
Zero and sixty.
So I'm wondering this.
Can I get to 'scratch' before I enter my seventh decade?
Or put another way, is a legitimate goal this?
0B460
Delusional?
Well maybe. After all there was that round of 100 in the Club Championships last year...
But there's been some good golf too.
And the trend in the last twelve months has been in the right direction.
But scratch?
'Not a chance' would be the universal view of everyone I've ever played golf with.
And let's face it, whether I can do it or not wont really change my life.
Which makes the goal a paradoxical one.
I won't achieve it if it doesn't matter whether I achieve it. But it doesn't matter if I don't.
Does matter, doesn't matter?
No matter. I'm a 'saddle up the unicorn and go for it' kind of guy.
And this morning it turns out that someone else is offering up their credentials to be regarded as a world class delusionist.
I've been trumped by Boris. (Trump of course another colossal, pathological delutionist).
Now I don't have the wherewithal to put 0B460 on the side of a bus
But it might make a decent logo on a golf shirt...
Watch this space.
Update
This blog was posted at 08.55 on 7th July.
At 09.00 news outlets were reporting that Boris Johnson was to resign as Leader of the Conservative Party.
Indeed his resignation speech came later that morning. He acknowledged that he could not continue as Prime Minister as he had lost the confidence of the Parliamentary party.
He cited the 'herd mentality' of his own MPs as being the fatal factor, and at odds with the mandate he felt the electorate had given him in 2019.
Not so delusional after all then.
Should I consider this a bad omen for my own ambition of 0B460?
I think not.
In this regard I am thankfully a constituency of one.
And as Boris's hero, Winston Churchill, is quoted as saying:
"I am an optimist. There doesn't seem too much use being anything else".
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